Wild Isles - Video Effect

sp1814 | 21:43 Mon 13th Mar 2023 | Film, Media & TV

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I've seen this effect a few times on natural history programmes and can't work out how its done.

A drone shot will reveal a landscape in (say) spring and then gradually the shot will dissolve into summer, autumn then winter...but there's no cuts...

Does anyone know how this is achieved?

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ToraToraTora

They take a lot of pictures from the same place through the period concerned then knit them all together. Drones can be positioned very accurately so just do 1 pic a week say at the same place and time of day. It's pretty pain staking.

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TTT

Thanks...but that doesn't quite fit with what I saw earlier this evening. The drone wasn't static, it was flying over a forest and as it did, the leaves started appearing on the trees underneath. It didn't even look like picture were being morphed together.

Old_Geezer

My guess is that even modest computers these days can match up the landscape from one flight to another. Make enough flights and it should be able to be stitched together with a gradual fade creating the changes.

ToraToraTora

21:51, ok so they do a moving shot, same principle. The drone can be programmed to follow the exact path each time. Then they splice the shots digitally.