Cool Video of the Day

Youtube can collapse time?! Man, Google has WAY too much control over our daily lives and the universe.
 
I'm really struggling with what I just watched.....

I don't what it was. Its hard for my brain to explain, but how was this video made?

Did they seperate each car virtually in the video and re-organize them by color? How the hell was this done so seemlessly????
 
I've got to imagine time-collapsing means it collapses a longer time frame in to a shorter one without speeding up the video. You can see where the shadow of the overpass shifts a bit due to time of day being different when certain cars were filmed versus the time of day represented by the video.
 
I hope I never see another "time collapsed" video again. I'm still waiting for the punch line.
 
Apparently - wherever this is - people seem to really like tailgating...

Whatever happened to the good old safe 3 second following distance? :p
 
Zarathustra[H];1040473603 said:
Apparently - wherever this is - people seem to really like tailgating...

Whatever happened to the good old safe 3 second following distance? :p
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the cars were edited / bunched together. This wasn't a video of normal traffic flow.
 
Neat video, very subtle, took me a while to even notice something had been altered.
 
they masked-out or rotoscoped each car, then moved them around in time so they were organized by color. this is easy stuff to do in video (Video Editing 101), just kinda time consuming. Michel Gondry did an interesting music video using this technique.
 
natos said:
How the hell was this done so seemlessly????
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It's the same technique used to show a clone of yourself in the same shot. You take two shots of you from different times and mask one over the other. Because the camera angle does not change, it's simple a moving mask for each object. I'm sure there is a youtube tutorial on it
 
such... variety of colors... white, grey, dark blue, black. and some rare red ones. i notice that every time i actively look at car colors.
 
temujin987 said:
such... variety of colors... white, grey, dark blue, black. and some rare red ones. i notice that every time i actively look at car colors.
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Different people like different things in cars.

Personally, I like the 90's BMW M philosophy (even though I probably would never buy a BMW).

Subtle, not flashy, not loud (either in color or exhaust note) yet still with good handling and decent power.

I currently hate the color of my car. (I got a good deal on it and couldn't pass it up). It's some sort of beige/brown/grey mix. IMHO, browns are TERRIBLE colors for cars.

If I were to pick my ideal color for my car, we would be talking one of the following:
- charcoal/dark grey
- black
- navy blue
- forest green
- wine red (maybe, if I am feeling extravagant, but probably not)

You would never find me in a bright colored car of any brand.
 
my color seems to be the exact color of dirt... which is nice because I live on a dirt road and you don't notice as much when it's covered in it :p but yea I would rather have a darker color like the ones listed above It would be more interesting to see this study done in a city with nicer cars, maybe at night, but it is neat to see them all zoom around tailgating each other too.
 
I know I saw the same landscaping truck at least 5 times just in a different color.
 
Not sure why, but watching that vid was giving me a headache, and straining my eyes.
weird.
 
natos said:
I'm really struggling with what I just watched.....

I don't what it was. Its hard for my brain to explain, but how was this video made?

Did they seperate each car virtually in the video and re-organize them by color? How the hell was this done so seemlessly????
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First you take a time of day, and from frames within a reasonable period of that time, to avoid lighting discrepancies, you isolate the road and produce a background plate of trafficless road. Then form a not much larger window of time you use traveling mattes to isolate each car. And you wind up with essentially a bajillion clips of isolated cars crossing the stationary framed area. Then you just layer them adjusting the start time so that they don't overlap each other. Then you pick start times to separate by color.

How in particular they automated the process, who knows. Sometimes you just waste huge amounts of time doing things the hard way because you only plan on doing it once.
 
raz-0 said:
Sometimes you just waste huge amounts of time doing things the hard way because you only plan on doing it once.
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I think there are some automated ways of doing this actually, some programs can extract a moving object from a static background...
 
blitzkommando said:
So many silver Hondas... How depressing.
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Why depressing?

Honda vehicles are pretty reliable.

So are Toyota vehicles.

In fact, they are most likely more "American" when you look at where they were built then "American" vehicles.
 
if you look at the shadow of the tree in the very bottom left corner of the video, you can see where they were not careful with the masking and the shadow distorts as smaller cars pass by.

not cool :p
 
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