GH5 Quick Hyperlapse Option

Here's how to achieve the hyperlapse look the easy way using a Panasonic GH5 or GH5S.
Using the cameras' VFR mode you can shoot video at 2 frames per second and get a hyperlapse-like result complete with motion blur by filming on a gimbal.
When locked down on a tripod this will also give you a good timelapse effect, although the shutter is going to be limited to 1/2 a second, and timelapses tend to look better with a 2 second shutter, albeit at a cost of time in filming and editing.
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[@JonBear]

GH5 user here, and I found your 5K video and now this one. In less than 30 minutes you have opened my mind to so many new possibilities with my camera. Wizardry! Sub and notification squad!

[@ShotByMyles]

Appreciate that Jon, thanks! Enjoyed delving around the more obscure corners of the camera features :)

[@StellerJayFilms]

So funny to see you here Jon! I’ll deff be doing this with the GH5s around Japan.

[@theJDfromCA]

This method saved me a lot of hours and I was able to complete a project on time! Thanks for providing this info in a clear and honest way.

[@ShotByMyles]

Great to hear it, thanks for your comment!!

[@RedNova_Creative]

Great tip, I shoot with the GH5s constantly. So this will help. Thanks

[@saulwormwood2136]

As always, very thorough and well explained. Thank you!

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks Saul!

[@rusalshrestha]

This was an amazing video, thank you!

[@ShotByMyles]

And thank you for commenting!

[@InventiveImagery]

Thanks man! appreciate the straightforwardness and example at the beginning

[@ShotByMyles]

Glad it was helpful!

[@markziemba8522]

Myles - great video! Thanks for sharing this technique and I’m looking forward to using it. The pros and cons you showed were very informative.

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks for the kind comment Mark! Good luck with it :)

[@nicechineseguy]

Good tip. cheers

[@SkyzZMedia]

Really nice tutorial! Thumbs up!

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks a lot!

[@talkinpictures1903]

Wow!! That's insane. Thanks for such a great vid. Just what I needed to see before travelling to Lisbon, Portugal with the GH5! Subbed.

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks a lot! Enjoy Lisbon, I’m jealous!

[@brawmedia]

Brilliant informative. It's what I'm doing right now for a job and will try it out

[@ShotByMyles]

Awesome, hope it goes well! Maybe test on a personal project before you do it for work :)

[@IndianBrah]

Been doing this on my GH5s with a variable ND to get even more of a blur, good to see this info is getting out now.

[@sochkov-vasily]

may be its better put blur in apps. I use lens zoom blur, its makes sharp center and blur sides.

[@petreskyfilms]

It's March 2022 and I just purchased a new GH5ii and found this video of yours (even after 3 1/2 years later) to be helpful ~ thank you!

[@ShotByMyles]

Haha I love that! Enjoy the camera! I’ve seen a few people go for the GH5ii over the GH6 👊🏻

[@blakerees3]

good idea! thanks mate xx

[@ShotByMyles]

Cheers!

[@DennisSpielman]

This is one of those, “That’s a great idea, why didn’t I think of that!” I’m going to try this out next time with my GH5.

[@ShotByMyles]

Cheers Dennis, hope it works out!

[@RussellEstridge]

great idea mate

[@waynebonilla]

Dope tutorial man!

[@ShotByMyles]

Cheers Wayne!

[@jefgibbons]

Awesome vid Myles!

[@ShotByMyles]

Cheers Jef!

[@mattalber]

Wow, man thank you SO MUCH for teaching this technique! I had no idea my GH5s would do this!

[@ShotByMyles]

No worries, glad it helped! It’s quick and fun to try out :)

[@JohnOsCreations]

My new Gh5 is on the way. Will definitely give this a go. Great video. Thanks

[@ShotByMyles]

Hope you love it!

[@JohnOsCreations]

@@ShotByMyles Cheers dude. All the best from a Sunny Ireland

[@jonathanwamble9340]

Brilliant!!

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks a lot!

[@isart3757]

that's cool idea

[@BranRistic]

Thanks, i subbed, you should have way more subs than what you got now

[@ShotByMyles]

Appreciate that Bran, thanks!

[@josediaz706]

Awesome Tip Myles! I will be trying this out very soon. Thanks! One quick tip I would add is if you are using Crane 2 why not use your cell phone and Crane 2 app to get really nice tracking.

[@ShotByMyles]

Glad to hear it, cheers! Thanks for sharing the tip :)

[@onited.]

excellent

[@ShotByMyles]

Olivier's World thanks a lot!

[@pavelvitek766]

Gh5 is just sooo good

[@reflexfilms]

I definitely prefer practical in camera effects - however if you don't have the time (or access to nds) then Reel Smart Motion blur by revision does a great job of adding pretty convincing motion blur in post. I use this a lot for outdoor hyperlapses with my olympus 7-14 (its a pain to get nds on there) to give that nice frame to frame blur. I also use it for drone shot ramps. on the zhiyun crane v 2 i use the lock off yaw setting (push camera mode button once) all the time - which makes steady hyper push ins, side wards dollies and pull outs super easy. Like your delivery by the way - very professional and clear.

[@ShotByMyles]

Good shout, thanks for the insight on the motion blur! I'm on the same gimbal and use that too- really useful mode! I use it for a smooth pan action as well using the joystick to keep the speed uniform, that's if I have time to adjust the sensitivity of the joystick-controlled pan speed which takes some trial and error, detracting somewhat from the ease of this method :) Thanks a lot for the comment!

[@ElisionNetwork]

interesting alternative, thanks 👍🏻

[@ElisionNetwork]

Also ... is this filmed in Leeds? Not far from me 🙂

[@ekolbatx]

nice tip! thank ya :)

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevevickers2844]

I like your presentation style. This is a great way to experiment with hyper time-lapse. I have a request reviews of the gh5 are plentiful on KZbin's platform and indeed was the main reason I purchased this camera. I would really like to see you do a current review of this camera not as a comparison with other cameras but by concentrating on only the gh5. Given your experience and obvious skill set I think this would be well worth watching.

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks for your comment Steve, totally agree with it being a good way to experiment! I'll give that video some thought, cheers

[@CultureIsKey]

This is so sick man I hope I can get mine to look the way yours did if that intro was genuinely just recording at 2p

[@ShotByMyles]

Good luck, it certainly was!

[@TheLosvid]

Спасибо!!!

[@SethAllanAmes]

Sick intro

[@ShotByMyles]

Seth Ames cheers Seth!

[@keanthe3678]

Thank you , great tutorial. Which shutterspeed do ou recomand to use for this hyperlapse?

[@ShotByMyles]

I think I used 1/4 for the gimbal stuff, and maybe 1/2 for the tripod ones! The gimbal stuff benefits from a bit more sharpness

[@KurtDeMeuterFilms]

Great help ! Thx! For the shutter speed, do we set it to 180 ° ? (shutter angle)

[@ShotByMyles]

Yes that’d work! When shooting in 2P, either ‘4’ for a 1/4 second shutter or 180d will work!

[@jameswilson9011]

what track for the intro? good video, I have a G9 and have to use burst mode + manually hold the trigger down, but it works, and it's RAW

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks James! The opening track is Raices by Tomas Novoa, I got it from artlist.io :) I'm not familiar with the G9, but doesn't it have a photo-based timelapse mode? If it's like the GH5, you'd be able to set the interval and number of shots and still just walk on a gimbal with it for RAW hyper lapses, would just mean you wouldn't need to hold the shutter down.

[@ulirey2374]

60 th suscriber ✋

[@ridethefog]

I am curious how do you focus using this technique on a night timelapse or while changing the distance between subjects around you. Do you adjust the focus on the move on your ghimbal?

[@ShotByMyles]

I’m not pulling focus at all, as the shutter speed is so long you can stop the aperture down a lot and get a deep depth of field. It also helps that I was mainly on the 7.5mm, it’s so wide that almost everything is in focus when it’s set to infinity!

[@SebastianForssman]

Time interpolation: Frame blending. Thats yout friens when you want motion blur in premiere pro if you speed up clips...

[@ShotByMyles]

Good shout cheers for the input! I prefer in-camera wherever possibly but that’s handy to know 👊🏻

[@FloNFC]

Hey!!! Love how Leeds looks at high speed! I will definitely give it a try! P.S. The Security in Trinity Mall was ok with you around with a gimbal :)))? Great tutorial!

[@ShotByMyles]

Hi, thanks a lot! There’s a traditional hyperlapse on here by Thomas Williamson called ‘Welcome to Leeds’ which is beautiful, mine was a bit random :) I’m not sure Security clocked me, I was in and out all ninja-like ;)

[@ZephLadra]

What's wrong walking around with a gimbal in a mall?

[@ShotByMyles]

Zeph Ladra Exactly, but unfortunately it’s private property and security are likely to want to shut you down if you haven’t got permission :(

[@MitchSummers]

What should be my shutter angle if I want the right amount of motion blur? I am usually in that mode, not shutter speed mode. It looks like for a 24p output this is what I came up with: 360 angle = 1/24 speed (not possible with film @24 fps) 180 angle = 1/48 speed. 144 angle = 1/60 speed. 90 angle = 1/96 speed. 72 angle = 1/120 speed. 45 angle = 1/198 speed. So, that's not enough blur, right?

[@ShotByMyles]

Mitch Summers hi Mitch, small confession: I never use shutter angle in VFR mode! I would test to confirm, but I’d say in VFR at 2fps it would make a shutter angle of 180 equivalent to 1/4. You’ll soon know if it’s actually giving you a pleasing motion blur on people moving in your frame, or if it’s sharp then you know it’s going to need to be closer to 360!

[@MitchSummers]

@@ShotByMyles No worries! It seemed better at 360 than 180 for sure in a test around the house. To be safe, I set it back to shutter speed for this C3-2 custom setting. Thank you!

[@ShotByMyles]

Mitch Summers ok I’ve had a quick test and it looks like shutter angle takes in to account the VFR frame rate even if the base frame rate remains 24 / 25P... so I’d actually recommend 180d shutter angle (1/4 second), especially if you have moving objects quite close to the camera. It’s personal preference, but I did this around a city centre at both 180d (1/4 second) and 360d (1/2 second) and the people close to me were obscure blurs at 1/2 (too much so), and the surroundings were sharper at 1/4. Think the example in this video was at 1/4 (180d) except for the really wide shot on a tripod which was at 360d to exaggerate the blur of the far away people 👍🏻 Good luck with it!

[@MitchSummers]

@@ShotByMyles thank you! i had great success today but I tried shutter speed mode at 4. worked like a charm! thank you. You've now got Nas from Nas Daily and Drew Binsky saying, "how'd you do that?" haha

[@ShotByMyles]

@@MitchSummers That's awesome, glad to hear it!! I've a feeling you'll be somewhere way more exotic than me to get some sick footage! 4 shutter is my sweet spot too I think :)

[@user-uu5gp7cz4d]

Very Good Tip! Which do you like better, Gh5 or Gh5s? you already have Gimbal.

[@ShotByMyles]

Thanks! They’re both great cameras and better-suited for separate things... I love my GH5 because I like to go handheld quite often so the IBIS is great :) but I do sometimes wish it was better in low light!

[@SethAllanAmes]

1/4 vfr 2 got it

[@reelfocusproductions989]

Nice one, must invest in a gimbal now lol

[@ShotByMyles]

Tom Bowen haha sorry! I use the Zhiyun Crane v2 which doesn’t have focus pulling and can’t support the Sigma 18-35, but it does a job and by now those should be really cheap if you find one 👍🏻 Meantime you can test this locked off on a tripod for just a regular timelapse. The shot of the families around the Christmas tree was done that way, the planning to the train was just done in post.

[@hendrikdroler4042]

Just do it on your BMPCC 4K in losless RAW. Really nice, can record to SD Card because of low framerate and it's raw.

[@ShotByMyles]

Hendrik Drößler that’d be even better! Love that camera 😍

[@christianvonpreysing2839]

What transition did you use at 0:15 to go tight on the plaza?

[@ShotByMyles]

I’m pretty sure this was just a zoom and reframe done in post using key frames, with some zoom blur added for effect :) the sound effect helps sell it I think!

[@borcetoseski1314]

Great video!! Im a professional tattoo artist and i wanna do time-lapse with my gh5. What settings do you recommend? Tnx in advance

[@ShotByMyles]

Tbh you can still use this method and settings in the video, but for max quality (at the cost of more time in post) you could do a photo timelapse. A shutter speed of about half a second to a second is what will give you the motion blur, and then you need to think about how much footage you want. For a 10 second timelapse at 25 fps you’d need 250 frames, so if you’re filming a 2 hour process you’d need to be taking a picture at least every 30 seconds (2 phots a minute, 240 photos in 120 minutes). A half second shutter speed is quite long so you might need an ND filter to stop your footage being over exposed. Enjoy!

[@shutterhouse]

Interesting approach, but have ever used the "regular" Timelapse mode in the GH5? Any diffrence to it? I guess your method is pretty nice, cause I can see more on my screen while walking with my cam.

[@ShotByMyles]

kyrt667 I’ve used the timelapse feature for timelapses but never while walking mid-shot like this... walking on a gimbal in the photo-based timelapse mode would give a really similar look except higher quality (from it being RAW photos and not video) at the cost of a lengthier editing process for the photos and larger files. Like you say with this one it’s fairly simple to keep an eye on things and review straight after :)

[@shutterhouse]

@@ShotByMyles good answer. I'd sucribed for more 😉 Actually its also a good Idea for the GH4, cause in Photomode you can't use there Cinelike D

[@ShotByMyles]

kyrt667 nice one cheers! That’s a good shout, photos would probably give more flexibility, but if the rest of your video is in CineD or any other profile, this hyperlapse would come out immediately matched to your other footage instead of having to match CineD to RAW photos. Good shout!

[@ralvis20]

Thank you very much for this video man, the GH5 is so capable, just gotta figure out how to use it! One question though, on VFR mode I found you can't use the back button focus trick, so how are you keeping your subject in focus while moving towards it? I guess you can keep your aperture closed down so it's easier to focus. But do you set it to autofocus or keep it in manual mode? I'm headed to Italy this weekend and want to try this out and I think this would be helpful to know. Thanks again man!

[@ShotByMyles]

Cheers Robert! Yes VFR disables autofocus, so you can’t use the back button or continuous AF I’m afraid. So on a gimbal for this type of stuff I use a wide lens (larger depth of field already) I stop down the lens as you say and set focus to infinity :) Enjoy Italy!

[@ralvis20]

@@ShotByMyles cool deal! That's what I was thinking but wasn't sure if that was right. Thanks man I appreciate it. Will do, keep the great videos coming!

[@ShotByMyles]

Robert Alvis no worries! With such a long shutter of 1/4 you’ll need to stop down anyway unless you’ve got a strong ND filter :)

[@ralvis20]

@@ShotByMyles yeah good point! I'll try it out and see how it looks and send it to ya. I've got 2 weeks to practice so maybe I'll get half a decent one ha. Thanks again homie 🤘

[@damiansciberras]

Great video! Are you from Hull? I grew up there 👍 how about putting the GH5 in time lapse mode and walking around with the gimbal, that way you get the stills and the camera stitches them together too, have you tried this before to see how it compares 2fps. I am going to try your method tomorrow! Thanks 🙏

[@martinsinclair55]

Hello. Brand new GH5S can not select VAR FRAME RATE. It is greyed out. Also can not select higher than 6400 ISO. No other numbers. Have tried every type of REC FORMAT and QLTY. Warranty? Thanks

[@ShotByMyles]

Hi Martin, it’s tough to diagnose remotely but VFR is only an option on the 8 bit modes- you say you’ve tried all the Rec format types but that’s all I can recommend without playing with the camera

[@martinsinclair55]

@@ShotByMyles Finally found a video that showed there is a setting called FILTER. Turning this off allows you to adjust ISO to 51,000 and to select VFR. Who would have guessed. Thanks.

[@ShotByMyles]

martin sinclair I would definitely not have guessed that!! Glad you got it sorted and appreciate you following up in case I’m asked again :)

[@markfriday]

Hi, Myles! What would you suggest I do if I wanted to do a hyperlapse like this but without a gimbal?

[@ShotByMyles]

Hi Mark, without a gimbal I think you'd have to do the old school method of taking a photo, moving a step forward, getting the framing the same and taking another photo etc etc. It's important you keep a single object at the middle of the frame throughout so that when you join them up they are quite stable and the framing doesn't change.

[@markfriday]

@@ShotByMyles is there an in-camera feature on the GH5 that I can use to do a hyperlapse so I don't have to stitch them up in editing? Do you think the timelapse/stopmotion feature can create something like this?

[@ShotByMyles]

Yes there is a timelapse function to be fair that can produce a video file in-camera, it could be tricky though in a scenario where you’re moving because you’ll need to be in position at the moment it fires every time! I’m sure it’s do-able but either you’ll be using a long interval to make sure you are in position in which case you’re wasting time, or it’ll be too fast and you’ll miss shots. What program do you edit on? If it’s FCPX you can import photos in a timeline and make a video from them fairly easily, you can select all and change duration to 1 frame 👍🏻

[@markfriday]

@@ShotByMyles Hi, Myles! Is there a way to do a timelapse in the GH5 without saving the original photos and just the output video itself? Also I have another question, on the LCD, the icon of the output video of the timelapse is smaller than the icons of my videos that are not timelapses, why is that? Thanks!

[@ShotByMyles]

@@markfriday Obviously shooting video in VFR mode as shown in this video will give you a time-lapse with no photos, which is good for a gimbal or tripod (or anywhere you can prop it up!) but no good for walking... On the regular time-lapse mode for photos it asks you to create the video when you end the time-lapse, and you can do that and then delete the photos in one go (it treats them as a group) but I don't think there's a way to automatically delete the photos. I must say I don't know about your second question on the icons, sorry! Hope it works out for you though

[@SaiKelly]

Thanks for that. Just a thought could you not shoot the 2fps for the straight walk, then when you wanted to "orbit" something stop recording, switch to 25fps (or whatever you wanted) record that, hold the frame again while you switch back to continue the walk in 2fps?

[@ShotByMyles]

As long as you take care to try and make the transition between VFR and regular mode as smooth as possible then that could work, good shout!

[@SaiKelly]

@@ShotByMyles Aye was thinking that would be the tough part, brill will try this out asap thanks!

[@SaiKelly]

​@@ShotByMyles ​Ok so I was testing out the time-lapse comparison there on a motorway bridge; recording video onto the NinjaV in prores and then capturing stills photography onto the GH5's SD card in time-lapse mode and comparing. So IMO the Cons are; 1). a 10 minute 4k video is near 22GB whereas the raw photos make 6GB in total and 2). I imagine the flexibility in editing is reduced compared to what you can get out of raw photo files. I don't know how much by or if it will actually be a big enough deal, could vary project by project I haven't started grading either sets yet. But the Pros though I would say, if you are looking for a quick video, no-to-little grading, straight to KZbin-type or just out on a test shoot, this actually looks pretty good and has the same effect or motion/look....until of course I start grading the pair of them, then we'll see who wins. I tried a few at 1sec intervals also and it looked smoother but again this is objects coming towards with static world, rather than the camera walking forward. (I was also using a SliderOne motorised slider tracking left and right.) Besides, I'm not sure I could walk forwards with a gimbal at ¼ Shutter speed anyway and take stills without everything being blurred so its either tripod the stills style of TL or gimbal the TL video style. Wait...if im walking with video at 2fps, shutter speed ¼....thats the same thing right? Just checking the numbers here, ; Stills TL settings for this motorway shot should be 2sec Interval, 4 on the Shutter speed (=¼) (or even 1sec Interval and 2 SS, as long as it's doubled) but video TL it's 2FPS and 4 SS. Those should create the exact same effect right? (There's no need to think about interval because thats what the FPS translates to in this case in video.) So how can you move the camera (walking forwards) and not get total blur everywhere? Is that seriously the gimbal fixing all that? Sorry just re-watched the video, you do make a real point of stating this....but man that's amazingly in focus compared to what I thought it would be walking with those settings!

[@ShotByMyles]

@@SaiKelly I found the video footage to be a lot smaller for file sizes compared to shooting stills, but that's using VFR mode saving to the SD cards and not Ninja V! It should only be capturing 2 video frames per second so I'm really surprised if a ProRes frame is larger than a RAW still... I didn't think you could shoot VFR mode in to a Ninja, or was that just slow motion? Yeah man it's the gimbal that smoothes out the footage! I mean nothing ever is truly sharp at a shutter of 1/4 when you're walking with the camera, but it's passable if your subject is central, far away and you're walking straight :) Stills interval of 2 a second with 1/4 shutter is the same as VFR mode at 2, yeah!

[@SaiKelly]

​@@ShotByMyles Bud I tried it today and it worked well! Really surprised with the result, especially when you're watching the video feed and seeing nothing but blur. But it plays back so well as you say, its only when you pause it that you realise nothing's perfectly crisp. The brain fills in the gaps when its playing even if the centre loses focus briefly. I tried orbiting on the walk and with a little planning it should be grand. Yeah so UHD output to the NINJAv and recording in prores LT is 410Mb/s and that was a 10 or 15minute video so its going to be large. The two 8-15 sec videos I shot today at 4k 100M were directly onto the SD cards so were H.264 and weren't even over 170mb in size and thats all I need to be shooting to be honest. The issue was I like using my Ninjav screen to see what I'm doing and recording in a format that premiere enjoys but this will be ok. Plus it means less weight on the gimbal. Im actually thinking of giving the walking stills version a go also. As will be higher quality but also blur the edges more into a zooming effect whilst hopefully keeping the centre in focus. Orbiting will be a pill but ill try and time it so the shots are being taken when I'm still, moving it gradually in the intervals. When it comes to understanding the difference between VFRates (above 30fps) and Slo-Mo this is where I get lost. To me a higher frame rate than 25/30fps (and I'm on 3 hours sleep here for the past two nights in a row so forgive me) is moving towards slomo. So what I mean is 50fps is where I can now slow it down by a factor of 2 which gives me slow motion. When I shoot 4k50p on the ninja, I can pause the playback on review and there are options to slow the playback down by percentage intervals to watch the footage as I intend it to look and how it will look in my 25p timeline. I've been so confused lately about the Hz settings mostly due to the suffocating amount of differing views by people online that I just need to go back to the start and learn it all again because, in all fairness, a lot has changed in the past 20 years regarding broadcast and acceptable frame rates etc. I've been shooting video since the early 90s and I think a lot of my understanding is redundant now or at least needs a refresher. Most of the people giving tips on youtube were born 20 years later than me and I feel like have a different frame of reference so I feel like I need "an oul boy" to chat to who is up to date with current standards! But thats just how my brain works! I need to unlearn some unhelpful things or at the very least update them. But this is a whole other conversation! sorry.

[@Ntantu]

LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS!!! Ha thanks for the tip

[@RicoResolves]

So let's say you want a 10 second clip so you'll have enough to work with.. You put the GH5 on 2fps. That means you need like 20 frames for 10 seconds correct? How do you calculate that? I mean, you'll have to walk towards/from a subject and you somehow need to know how long you'll have to walk/which distance to clear.

[@ShotByMyles]

Rico's Story if you want a time lapse of 10 seconds and your project is 24 frames per second, strictly speaking you’d want to film 240 frames of footage. At 2P that means filming for 120 seconds or 2 minutes. As you say that becomes awkward for a hyperlapse, but it’s just as tricky with a regular hyperlapse, where presumably you’d need to measure the distance you want to travel in those 10 seconds, then divide that distance by 240 and then make sure you only move that amount between taking each photo. It’d probably be quicker to practice how slow you’d need to move to make that trip 2 minutes! As I say in the video though this is best suited for casual use rather than feature film, and the clips at the beginning of this video show you how much footage you get from walking just below regular walking pace.

[@RicoResolves]

@@ShotByMyles Great answer, I'll try to maintain a 2 minute distance from the subject that I'm trying to take a hyperlapse of. It'll save a lot of time when we're on a holiday etc. I've got the GH5 in yesterday, so I have yet to practise. Before, I'd use the automatic timelapse function on my Nikon D5600, guess the distance and then just have it set to let's say a 10 second interval. I'd take a picture, take a step forward, reset my aiming point, wait for the shot, take another step etc. Would take me like 15 minutes. My girlfriend hates waiting that long (when we're somewhere together) so this will be a huge time saver haha! Agreed that it might not be the best option for feature films though, but I'm far away from making stuff like that. I do know how to shoot a timelapse and have it look like a hyperlapse in AE though, so that's another option. Thanks again for your answer!

[@ShotByMyles]

@@RicoResolves Cool! I'd do it this way on holiday as well to be honest, it beats dealing with an angry girlfriend haha! Congrats on the purchase and enjoy the GH5 :)

[@RicoResolves]

@@ShotByMyles Thanks man, will do!

[@UnicornRiderNarresh]

Good Video Good information. I did a Time lapse of 72 images. Camera asked whether want a Video. I pressed NO. All images are in the card. can i get a video from the camera as now I realized I need a video also. Regards.

[@ShotByMyles]

Thank you! I don’t think you can do it after pressing ‘no’ to be honest, but if you throw the images in your video editor and change the duration for each one to ‘one frame’ then it should work the same as if the camera made it. Good luck!

[@UnicornRiderNarresh]

@@ShotByMyles I tried. The camera did make the videos. First press play button. Camera shows thumbnails. It shows thumbnail of sequential images. Select that. Go to main menu. Select Time Lapse Video Select 4k Or FHD And it makes the MP4 file. It saved a reshoot of 30 products. Do try it. 👍. Post production time lapse video.

[@ShotByMyles]

@@UnicornRiderNarresh awesome thanks for sharing!

[@viktorsz]

How come you don't have thousands of subs, ill never know.. anyway. What do you think, ditching the gimbal and just use dual stabilization? Would that work, also in 4k I assume?

[@ShotByMyles]

Ha thanks! I love dual IBIS but to be honest for the VFR video hyperlapse I don’t think it’d work well- it’s obviously not going to be as stable but I’d have thought without a gimbal even adding warp stabiliser in post wouldn’t save it. Also if you’re walking with it on a slow shutter every shot could be blurry. Without a gimbal I’d stick to the traditional method of taking pics, they’ll be sharper and easier to stabilise in post because of it👍🏻

[@KieranThomasSmith]

when shooting at 2 fps is the shutter speed at 4? what is that as a shutter angle?

[@ShotByMyles]

That’s correct- it’s double the shutter speed so the angle is 180 degrees 👍🏻

[@KieranThomasSmith]

@@ShotByMyles Have you seen examples of people using 2fps with a 360 shutter angle for longer exposures? Wouldnt that suit a time lapse a lot better?

[@ShotByMyles]

The Noun one of the shots here is at 1/2 or 360d, it’s the wide tripod shot of the tree where the camera appears to pan up to the train. It works ok if you’re far away from your subjects or if there’s very little movement, but personally I found the motion blur was too much at 1/2 for people or objects whizzing round me, eg on a gimbal. It means virtually nothing is sharp at that point on a gimbal, unless your subject is really far away. On a tripod it makes a bit more sense, but any people passing by will be really long streaks instead of pleasingly blurred out.

[@LucaBanks]

I have a question my grid on my gh5 are just 4 lines can I make it more lines?

[@ShotByMyles]

I don’t think you can go more than that Luca unfortunately, I run with the rule of thirds (4 lines total) myself. If you head to the Wrench 🔧 C menu and find ‘Guide Lines’ those are your options 👍🏻

[@LucaBanks]

@@ShotByMyles ok I wanna try the normal way because the settings in your video I cant adjust them...the writing is grey and it sais its Not possible to adjust this setting dont know what I am doing wrong 😅

[@ShotByMyles]

@@LucaBanks if you mean Variable Frame Rate is not available it'll be because you're not in one of the shooting profiles that allow it. For example it won't work in any 10 bit mode, you need to pick 4K 8 bit 24P (or 25P if you're in Europe) and then variable frame rate should be visible. If it's anything else I probably can't help, but good luck!

[@LucaBanks]

@@ShotByMyles ahhh thank you for your reply 🙏🙏 I will try this

[@InventiveImagery]

Which record quality did you film the intro in? 4k 8bit?

[@InventiveImagery]

24p?

[@ShotByMyles]

If that's the hyper lapse it was done in 4K 8 bit (so that VFR mode is available) and then the lowest frame rate possible which was 2fps with a 'recording frame rate' of 25P :)

[@InventiveImagery]

@@ShotByMyles thanks my dude!! :)

[@ShotByMyles]

@@InventiveImagery Cheers Sam!

[@davideturacchi1461]

hi, how do you set the focus? manual or auto??

[@ShotByMyles]

Always manual for me :)

[@davideturacchi1461]

Shot by Myles when you get closer to the subject, do you adjust the focus or do you keep the diaphragm very closed for a greater depth of field?

[@ShotByMyles]

Team Dynamiks I think it’d be really difficult to pull focus while moving on a gimbal, especially in VFR mode when the screen is displaying 2 frames a second with a shutter of 1/4. Personally I would use a wide lens and close the iris so that the depth of field is deep enough.

[@talkinpictures1903]

I'm curious to know - did you study film making at university or are you self taught?

[@ShotByMyles]

I’m KZbin-taught ha :) and still so much to learn!

[@SuperNintendoChalmers]

Strict adherence to the 180 degree shutter rule in this instance wouldn't be worthwhile. Slower than 1/4 would be ill-advised, but speeding it up to your preference is fine.

[@jessicagarcia7558]

Can I do this on a Gh4?

[@ShotByMyles]

Sorry Jessica I’m not sure! If you can change frame rate to around 2 somehow then you should be golden! In fact I wonder what would happen if you just made your shutter speed ‘4’ (i.e. 1/4 second)... that might just record 4 frames a second for a similar effect. Or you could try 1/2s but that would be blurrier if you’re walking with it!

[@jessicagarcia7558]

@@ShotByMyles I think I could change my shutter to 2 in the slow motion. The GH4 the gh5 are not that far apart is just that the gh5 has more bells and whistles

[@dkuchta5]

One more downside that may be important to some - when using VFR on the GH5 you can't shoot in 10bit.

[@ShotByMyles]

dkuchta5 yes good point- therefore no HLG and only 8 bit Log which I wouldn’t recommend... it’s good for low light though with the shutter speed being so long!

[@caseybachmeyer]

i guess with the stabilizer from gh5 i dont need an extra gimbal????

[@ShotByMyles]

The GH5 probably has the best video IBIS on the market but if you plan on walking with the camera I still recommend using a gimbal :)

[@caseybachmeyer]

@@ShotByMyles thank you for the video and the fast answer..i will try this in spring with the GH6 :-)

[@ShotByMyles]

Haha thanks!

[@frankinblackpool]

I'm a bit late to the party, with this episode a month old, along with the fact that I've only had my GH5 for almost a month. I killed my GH4 during Storm Ciara filming waves 🙄. I have noticed one thing while taking Timelapses with my new toy. If I take 500 raw images and get to the camera within moments of the last shot being taken, then the GH5 offers to convert the stills to video, at up to 4k. However I shall dust off my gimbal and have a play today around town. Cheers

[@ShotByMyles]

RIP your GH4! That’s true, I should’ve maybe mentioned the timelapse photo mode offers an mp4 at the end. That’s probably going to be a similar output to recording video because you’ll lose the flexibility of RAW if you just wanted to use that mp4 in your project. It also takes forever for the camera to create that video if your timelapse was long! So reviewing it and carrying on shooting could be an issue. Good luck with your GH5!

[@frankinblackpool]

@@ShotByMyles Good morning sir, it is very kind of you to reply. I've been umming and ahhing for about 3 years over the GH5 and its focusing woes when watching KZbin reviews, so I persisted with my GH4 till I finally tested the Weather-seal to destruction when I got bitch-slapped in the face by a big wave on Blackpool Prom in January. It was worth it though for my little KZbin of the day. :-) I'm actually quite enjoying watching your channel and learning useful stuff along the way. I just make videos for me and my friends to watch. This is just a hobby for me while Miss Lemming watches her soaps. :-)