Jonathan R. Schmidt

Wildlife Video

The below video is actually a series of individually taken photos from a wildlife camera project I was working in. The still photos are taken from a motion-sensed camera. The cameras used for this montage were all monochrome cameras. The wind in certain areas was so prevalent that the cameras took pictures every second for sometimes hours. It was due to this phenomenon that the amazing cloud formations at the beginning of the montage were made possible. Essentially this is a summary of every still image taken during four months of data collection. I found it particularly enjoyable to put it together and add some music to spice it up.

On the techy side it wasn’t too difficult. Adobe Premiere allows you to bring in a series of still images if they are numbered stills in a sequence. So all I had to do was go into Adobe Bridge and batch rename the files so that they were all in a sequence. I could then bring them into Premiere as a video sequence and manipulate the speed of sequence and cut and splice. Because I wanted every single still image in the sequence and tried to keep it to 10 minutes the video moves rather quickly. Enjoy