Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I've been playing around with AI image and video enhancement tools - shooting footage beyond what is reasonable to fix, then setting the sliders on the various software tools too high, then enjoying the blurry smudgy wobbly weirdness.
I put my 14-30mm/4 on my full spectrum converted Z5, attached a 680nm infrared filter, and set up a timelapse sequence, shooting one shot every half second.
Starting from St. George Station, I walked along Bloor Street, past the ROM, then turned South on Bay street, walking all the way down to Front St, then I headed back up to St. George via University.
I managed to get about 5000 shots on a single battery!
The hyperlapse sequence was rendered out as a 480x480 24p video with a colour channel swap and a saturation adjustment, then I ran it through Topaz Video AI, with 8X frame interpolation, 4x upscale, 100% stabilization (2 passes), and some sharpening.
The audio is from the walk, but it has been squeezed to fit the length of the video. This was my first opportunity to use my fancy new Rode Wireless Pro system for something. The 32-bit float audio allowed me to capture everything from quiet footsteps to obnoxiously loud motorcycles without any clipping, and I was able to apply a lot of dynamics compression so you can hear it all in the final mix.
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kyleclements.com
I've been playing around with AI image and video enhancement tools - shooting footage beyond what is reasonable to fix, then setting the sliders on the various software tools too high, then enjoying the blurry smudgy wobbly weirdness.
I put my 14-30mm/4 on my full spectrum converted Z5, attached a 680nm infrared filter, and set up a timelapse sequence, shooting one shot every half second.
Starting from St. George Station, I walked along Bloor Street, past the ROM, then turned South on Bay street, walking all the way down to Front St, then I headed back up to St. George via University.
I managed to get about 5000 shots on a single battery!
The hyperlapse sequence was rendered out as a 480x480 24p video with a colour channel swap and a saturation adjustment, then I ran it through Topaz Video AI, with 8X frame interpolation, 4x upscale, 100% stabilization (2 passes), and some sharpening.
The audio is from the walk, but it has been squeezed to fit the length of the video. This was my first opportunity to use my fancy new Rode Wireless Pro system for something. The 32-bit float audio allowed me to capture everything from quiet footsteps to obnoxiously loud motorcycles without any clipping, and I was able to apply a lot of dynamics compression so you can hear it all in the final mix.
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kyleclements.com
