Time-Lapse Mode - Black Forest Motion Forum

Slave mode operation for holy grail

faithblinded — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 05:36:45 +0000

I am testing my unit out with a slider I built, and I'm struggling with the settings available in slave mode. The one setting I want is not available in slave mode: Recording Time. I am shooting day-night with the Timelapse+ VIEW. My interval is ramping, so using frame count makes no sense. I don't know how many frames there will be. I know how long I want to shoot, and I would like to be able to tell it to move from point A to point B over a certain duration of time, in slave mode. Forcing me to use a frame count means one of two things : either I won't reach the final keyframe during shooting, or it will reach the final keyframe before the sunset/sunrise is fully captured. If I could set a recording time, I would always get the full programmed motion in the desired timeframe, despite not being able to predict how many frames it will take to do it.

Any chance of a firmware update to change this? You'd have to write some simple math to re-calculate how far to move after each interval, but I don't think it would be that tough to work out.

Thanks!

PS Loving the controller otherwise. It worked correctly out of the box with my DIY slider. Is there an API available for someone wanting to try USB control of the PINE R?

Bewegung im timelapmodus

Skydiver — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:57:09 +0000

Hallo,

Die Bewegungen im timelapmodus zwischen zwei keyframes scheinen linear zu sein.

Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, eine parabolische Beschleunigung zu realisieren? Ich meine, die Bewegungen ganz langsam zu beginnen, dann beschleunigen, und dann wieder langsam enden.

Danke für hilfreiche Infos!

Adding limit switches to slider?

lore88824 — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:44:10 +0000

Hi,

I understand the concept but actually haven't been able to get how to practically do that.

I'd like to add those to my slider. Is there any resources online I should check?

Thanx

Power bank suggestions

lore88824 — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:02:32 +0000

Hi all,

New to the forum, about to get a Pine R controller for my slider setup.

Just wondering if you have any suggestions about a reliable, portable and sufficently powerful battery to drive a slider setup (1 motor right now, but looking into expanding to three).

I checked power requirements on Pine’s user manual so I’m looking for a 12v out with a minimum of 1,5 A.

I’m mainly doing timelapses, but some occasional video shoots happen every once in a while.

How many mAh should I look into for a several hours of running time (think holy grail time-lapses or day to night and Astro)?

Thanx

L.G

Modena (Mo)

Italy

Arbeitsweise Timelapse Modus

mzpictures — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:22:00 +0000

Hi,

ich brauche mal Eure Unterstützung zum Verständnis der Abläufe im Timelapse Modus.

Sehe ich es richtig, dass folgendes im Zeitraffermodus abläuft?!

Fallbeispiel Intervall 7s mit Motion:

- Start eines Intervalls

- Auslösung (der Kamera) so lange wie unter "Camera" eingestellt (0,1s)

- Pause für alle Motoren wie unter "Delay" eingestellt (bspw. 5,2s)

- Schnellstmögliche Motorbewegung unmittelbar nach Ablauf der "Delay" Zeit

- Pause wie unter "Excess" angegeben

- Start des nächsten Durchlaufs

Ich rätsel gerade Rund um die Themen Ausschwingzeit des Aufbaus nach der Bewegung durch die Motoren und Ausschwingzeit der Kamera (Spiegelschlag)?!

Mit meiner D850 passt noch alles für 4K UHD mit meiner D800 (extremer Spiegelschlag) bin ich nicht zufrieden.

Grüße Micha

Repeatability of Timelapses - w/i 1 pixel to being perfect!

RickCarmichael — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 06:50:08 +0000

Hi everyone. I was running some timelapse tests the other day using:

Beta v3 of the app
Nikon D750 with Tamron 15-30mm lens
Dynamic Perceptions (old) Stage Zero slider and 2 Stage R pan and tilt heads

I set 4 total keyframes (including the start and end keyframes). I ran repeated runs with slider, pan and tilt movements, and then created an animated GIF to compare how accurately those runs would “register” with each other. This is something you might want to do to blend a strong daylight timelapse into an evening timelapse of the same scene.

The results were absolutely amazing!!!! There is only a 1 pixel offset in the first timelapse run (from frame 1 until maybe frame 19 or 20) compared to the second and third timelapse runs. But there is complete frame accuracy between timelapse two and three runs! See this linked animated GIF (which has been compressed for size so not great quality).

Kudos go out to the development team for the entire experience of setting up and running the timelapse being such a easy - and trouble-free - experience!

PS - metal bars on the windows are a STANDARD fixture for most homes in Bali ?