Juhanis Blog

I was visiting at my friends at Brasov, Romania and decided to make my first video only using my mobile phone. The phone is Nokia N8. The lightness of the phone made it difficult to make stabilized video even I had my manfrotto travel steady cam with me. The time lapses was still successful for my opinion.

Programs I used

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5(Main Editor)
• Adobe After Effects CS5(for stabilization of some footage)
• Adobe Lightroom 3.3(Data manage and Timelapses)
• Neat Video Plugin(for reduce noise)

Edit: I forgot to tell how to Interpret the footage before adding to timeline. So basically you need to interpret the footage if your framerate is showing like 500 frames per second. So select all video clips and select modify-> interpret footage and write frame rate to 25 frames per second in Europe at least. In US you might need to use 30 frames per second.

I had my GoPro attachments that I used to attach my mobile phone to tripods, suction cup and steady cam. The program I used in the phone for time lapses was FastMotion that I bought from OVI store.

My Mobile phone custom Rig

Tripod attachement

Tripod in use

Suction cup(GoPro)

Suction Cup in Use

I finally got time to test new Nokia Ovi album embedding and I think it’s quite nice feature for showing pictures to your friends. As a photographer and programmer I could not start thinking of where this live is going. More and more mobile phones include GPS receiver and coordinates are saved into pictures automatically. There are these feature in SLR also but at least I haven’t seen’t any decent way to do it, well I have used only Canon and Nikon SLR so there probably is already some models in market.

Anyway there are currently four ways to show pictures from OVI in own site. But the most coolest thing in here is wherever I go in this world I can always add pictures to these galleries from mobile phone and after adding the picture in one of these albums it will show those pictures in this blog. There are usually some problems also, like you see in here, background is white and my blog background is black, it just don’t look so nice.

First is this Horizantally Moving pictures. In this album there is some pictures from Egypt that I took with mobile phone.

It’s very nice for example bottom of the page, little similar to Adobe Lightroom filmstrip.

Second way is to show your pictures traditionally as Photo grid. One interesting thing in here is that I also added video for that and it really works. Here are some pictures from event here in Finland, it was located in Kaarina city and called "700 Rock".

Third ways is just Slideshow, which is also very traditional way. Here are some misc pictures from finland.

But I think the last ways as FishBowl is the most coolest way to show your pics. These pictures are taken from Thailand.