File:OU Radar Innovations Laboratory Motion Timelapse.webm

English: This project began in January 2014 with the acquisition of a Syrp Genie motion timelapse motor. As a PhD candidate in radar meteorology, I wanted my first large scale timelapse film to be focused on radar, science, and the research campus I work on at the University of Oklahoma. Shortly after I began, our new Radar Innovations Laboratory opened its doors, and there were many new opportunities for filming. After some successes and showing clips to the right people, I decided to morph the project into a dedication video for the grand opening of the lab on 22 October 2014. This is the compilation of 10 months of work, including approximately 100 hours of filming, 300 hours of editing, over 40 scenes, and more than 25,000 total photographs (slightly more than 7,000 made it into the film). Essentially, this added up to all of my free time as a graduate student over the past year.

All shots (other than the final tornado simulator shot in the lobby, which was completed with a Sony 4k video camera) were with a Nikon D5100. The vast majority were with either a Tokina 12-28 mm or a Bower 8 mm f/3.5 fisheye. Panning and tracking shots were with the Syrp Genie and Magic Carpet, and each frame was edited using a combination of LRTimelapse 3, Sequence, Panolapse, and Adobe Lightroom (various other Adobe CC products, as well as Final Cut Pro, were used for the final storyline).

Music is Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi. Every frame is rendered in native 4k (3840x2160), and track shots were occasionally smoothed slightly with Adobe After Effects.