Is this dumb? Why can't I do this…?

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

First, an aside: I actually ran across this issue on location in Japan 3 weeks ago. I put in a call to RED after hours support, since it was a 'right here, right now' kinda situation… left a message… and never got a call back. Never heard a damn thing. This is only the second time I've had to call after hours; the first time around I had exactly the same thing. No-one returned my call. Kinda sucked.

Anyway, the question.

I'm shooting time-lapse with the internal intervalometer. Project frame rate is 23.98. I'm shooting 1FPS. It's a night cityscape by available light.

I was constrained by the required iris setting, and really wanted more light rather than crank the ISO up.

Given than I'm shooting a 1FPS time-lapse, why can't I increase the exposure time beyond 1/24th? Why can't I shoot, say, 1FPS time-lapse, with exposure 1/8th, to be projected at 23.98 frame rate as per usual? This would have been good from a creative point of view too; more motion blur on parts of the shot that were moving.

Is this impossible? Or am I missing something in settings?

Thanks

Mike

 

[Alex Kiritz]

I think this might help. http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?93031-Timnelapse-setup-question&highlight=time+lapse

 

[Björn Benckert]

set your framerate to 1 fps and then set the timlapse to 1 fps your project setting should remain 23.98 then you should be good to go.

 

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

I think this might help. http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?93031-Timnelapse-setup-question&highlight=time+lapse

Big help; thanks both of you!

Seems frame summing was the key. That's so damn non-intuitive; why can't I just set a damn long exposure?

Mike

 

[Brodie Gwilliam]

max is 1 sec shutter without summing last time i checked , but if you change your framerate to 1fps you can easily set shutter to 1/8th (up to 1 sec) no problem without having to go into summing

 

[Brodie Gwilliam]

unless maybe hdr-x is enabled

 

[Julio Quintana]

I think this might help. http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?93031-Timnelapse-setup-question&highlight=time+lapse

Maybe I'm a little slow, because this explanation gave me a headache. I'm not sure why this has to be so complicated, but I guess I'll just do timelapses with a DSLR until my Epic gets some simplified intervalometer settings. Jeez...

 

[paulherrin]

it's not all that complicated, maybe a video would be helpful...

but for now:
set (or leave) your project framerate to whatever you want
set your fps and exposure (probably 1/360)
set your frame processing to sum
black shade and shoot

dslr's are great for timelapse, but i have to admit it's kinda awesome to get instantaneous, in-camera playblack. plus post is super-simple...