How to Create Tilt-Shift / Miniature World Time-lapses
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Today, I want to show you how to do time-lapses that look like you’re in a miniature or tiny world, aka the tilt-shift effect.
In reality, this is a simple technique that can be done in any editing program. I'm going to show how to do it in FCPX, but once you see what I do here I think you can follow along in AE, Photoshop, or Premiere.
But before I get to that, I should probably explain why this technique is called the tilt-shift effect. That’s simply because you can simulate this miniature world on larger scales with a tilt-shift lens.
The best tutorial I’ve seen about that is this one from Canon’s Vincent Laforet - • Tilt-Shift Lens Basics... but essentially you can take a lens like this and use the tilt function to change the plane of focus. However, what kind of blows my mind is that there is no good reason that I can think of as to why you’d shoot your miniature world time-lapses like this. It gives you no ability to change the focus afterwards. I prefer to do it all in post-production, and in fact it’s really easy these days.
I think the blur technique is fairly straightforward in the video.
However, to get the effect right, I think it’s good to do a few more things other than just blur it. First, models like the legos we shot are usually painted with vibrant and saturated colors. That means you need to up your saturation, contrast and sharpness
Other than that, it's up to your creativity. To wrap up my suggestions, here are three general rules to do after you do the blurring.
1. Get the angle right - pointing down at 30-45 degrees
2. Make keep that contrast and saturation up.
3. Keep the shutter speed fairly fast - 1/60th or faster.
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I friggin LOVE this effect
I thought I would put on my $.02 on the topic. I think the essence of tilt shift is that it removes the focal point so that the perspective is gone. In that sense, shooting as if you're replicating a miniature set is great, but I would only add that there has to be a lots of lines in the shot to give the best impression that the perspective is gone. That was originally how i went about it and I found great success.
Omg! The one with the construction workers is crazyyyY! Nice vid!
This gave me a lot of cool ideas to try out when I eventually get my order from DJI. Good show.
I think drone shots will actually take some great miniature photos.
Amazing tutorial. I'm going to refer to this quite a bit! Here are a few alternative ideas.
COLOR: The color needs to be vibrant, not because people tend to paint things in bright colors (the green of the mini bush could be as bright as my green bathing suit). Instead it's because all colors appear brighter close up than far away. Why? Light pollution. The further an object is from the viewer (or camera) generally the more light, and certainly the more sediment between them. This is why mountains in the far distance appear lighter and tend to blend in to the same color as the sky. So the best way to do this is to make sure that the 'brightness' is adjusted. Saturation and contrast help, but the main point is that the image should not apear washed out, because that's not what things look like up close.
SHARPNESS & GRAIN: The grain and shaprness are important because we can see so much more detail when looking at small objects up close. Lint, dust, imperfections, these all come into full focus when you're up close. So sharpness and grain help simulate this experience and create the illusion of detail that isn't really there.
SPEED & SCALE: These things are coupled. First let's talk about speed. The tilt-shift videos are sped up, not because we tend to see close-up game play sped up. It's because things appear to move faster from point A to B when you're up close. Imagine a kid playing with a train set. The kid isn't going to adjust for scale and move the train exactly according to what it would look like if we were birds looking down at that size train, right? He's gonna just move his hand quickly to make the train move ... which according to scale is way faster than it would actually look like it's going. So the train moves 6 inches. It would take a hand about 1 second to move it that far. So now back to the video. When you record video with a tilt shift lens of a REAL train moving and play it back at regular speed, the train looks tiny, so the train looks like it's moving about 6 inches because of the tilt shift. But there's a problem. If you play the video at its normal speed, it will seem like it's taking forever for the mini-train to move 6 inches! A kid's hand would just zoom it over in one second! Of course in reality what was filmed was not 6 inches, it's 200 feet. So it takes longer to move that far in real life. So what you do? You speed up the film (or do a time lapse)! When you do that it makes it look like all the little moving things are really in a toy model, and you're looking at it up close. BUT!!! Remember, that there's a direct relationship between the distance between your lens and the moving objects and how fast they are going. Most often, time-lapses are TOO FAST. They look too fast for the scale we would imagine tiny models. With the train is moving, for example, 6-inches in .1 second. And that makes the model look extra tiny, which is okay but, I'd say try to play with the speed as well.
Ah of course. That also makes a lot of sense. Now I wish I could have redone it. I took that from another tutorial and it made a fair amount of sense.
Still a badass tutorial! Short, sweet (instruction) .... incredibly LEAN. I'll be coming back.
You have some of the most listenable tutorials on YT, another great job. Oh... and congratulations on not using the most common verbal tick ‘you guys’ every 5 seconds ! it really does make such a difference.
Thanks you guys... DOAH. I mean, thanks Andy. Good catch there. That annoys me to no end as well. Sometimes it slips as I say it colloquially, but I try to not start my videos out like that! Also, thanks for leaving a comment. I do work a lot in a little "cave" here and it's nice to hear when people like yourself at least appreciate them. - R
Currently planning on doing some film work that will require making small models look big, so this was kinda interesting trying to understand what the effect is and how you make big things look small in order to reverse-engineer it to do the opposite
3 years later - how'd it go?
I like this guy. He's got 52 things for us to learn. I can't even do 1.
Nah - I bet you could do at least one...
ha ha. Is BEER CHUGGING one of your 52?
No way! You mean Beer Chugging is one of them?!!
I think I originally found your channel for time-lapses! Been a keen follower ever since. Keep up the great work guys!
I have a few more too that I'm going to do Neil. Thanks for the comments, as always.
Good one. Also, another benefit of using this editing technique vs tilt-shift lens to produce tilt shift effect is that when you get a subject with unknown trajectory across the frame, like the guy with his bike, you can determine the 'slice of the focal plane in focus after the fact.
Great thought! I totally agree. Moving the focal plane is a great technique!
Im here after dailydoze of the internet.
Lol same
We are 3 years to late to this 😂
same
Lol same
Same
If anyone is seeing this, and wondering WHY this makes things look miniature: it's because of depth of field. When you're photographing something really close, the depth of field is really thin. But if you're really far away, even at a huge aperture, everything is gonna be in focus at that distance. But, if you cheat it, and create a shallow depth of field on something that's far away, it tricks the brain, and your brain thinks "obviously it must be tiny, and really close"
I have been looking for the name of this effect for weeks, thanks you
clicked because of Bled island. Stayed because of an awesome tutorial
I am 10 seconds into the video and I want to take a stab at it. Okay shoot in miniature setting while doing a time-lapse session and Wallah? okay I'll keep watching now
clicked because of Bled island. Scrubbed through video looking for Bled island. No Bled island. Leaving video.
clicked because of Bled Island, because I am currently editing videos of Bled Island myself lol
Clicked for Bled island, stayed for the tutorial, still wondering where is that shot? Please, show us!
Thank you so much there is not enough tilt shift content.
Great intro. I noticed this feature on a smartphone for taking photos but had no idea what it actually does.
This is not actually what I searched for, but thanks for sharing ...great info
I love all art of lapses, they are all awesome
One problem with faked Tilt-Shift is that houses in the foreground also become blurry at the top and bottom even the objects may be in that range where the objects should be on focus, so sometime you can get a even better effect if you also can mask out objects as houses and poles that should be in focus even they extend up into the blurred areas.
Still, this is a very good episodes episode with many great looking T-Shift motion, and I do love the results you get from this method.
So it depends on what you're shooting. If you're shooting tiny objects, like people and there's no big objects, it works great. But if you have buildings that would cross that blur barrier, you can mask it so it sits at the correct "depth"
Nice examples. The Canon TS lens (I have the 24mm) is one of their sharpest lenses. No need to add grain on it's account. I'll watch more of your time lapse stuff though. That's very helpful.
A quick tip on an issue I always run into and that I saw 1:49 in this video. When you apply blur, the edge pixels will become transparent, showing the layer behind (I believe it is the clip with your hair?). This is easily fixed by scaling the clip up. Thanks for a great tutorial. Cheers!
Great tip! Thanks Magnus. I do that too.
I am not a video editor, nor a photo enthusiast. I still enjoyed watching this video, idk why. Nice video though!
This is an awesome technique! Another quality video.
I'm planning on recreating this effect in OpenCV for a class. This tutorial was pretty helpful for inspiration. Thanks!
1:55 looks so good.
Holy crap I love this channel
Superb material man. Im newbie and understood you, congrats!
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate the comment.
Enjoying your work/channel/tutorials very much, keep up the good work!
Awesome tutorial.
Definitely deserves more than 60k views 😳
It's getting there! I just saw it. 449k
Very good point about the stop motion thing.
Loved the thorough and thoughtful explanation
Thanks.
Saw this on my home page and noticed the Lake Bled thumbnail. Watched it and got a great tutorial. Would love to see another one on using filters in Premiere to do this. Also liked the color grade and noise aspect that I would not have thought of. It's Inspired me to start taking more timelapses with people and vehicles in them.
Great video!.. I would love to see a tutorial on how to make a tilt shift time lapse in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (If its possible)
Awesome clips of Gothenburg in the end!
You got it! :)
I did this, and it turned out great...Thanks.
Awesome Video! Thanks for sharing. Love the quality of your videos as well. So pleasing to watch ☺️.
Excellent tutorial, thank you! I've always wondered how to make that miniature effect
You guys do great work! Hopefully one day I'll get there. :) I shared your channels, website and the Our Rock Project with both of my kids' science teachers. Hopefully they'll do it. One of the teachers sounded excited about it!
Awesome. I'm really proud of the series we did (do) for beginners. I felt there was great need for a simple and easy to understand beginner series.
Really good info here, I learned quite a bit, thanks so much.
Fantastic tutorial
Oldie but goldie
nice video. i had forgotten all about this effect. good stuff!
Many thanks for my portfolio....... It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
That is an awesome guide! Thank you so much! I'm absolutely going to try this effect on my photos. And maybe even try to make my own timelapse!
Liked, subscribed!
your work-space setup seems awesome!!!
This is adorable. Can't wait to try it! Thank you!!
0:54 sec your son reaction towards lens was priceless
Out of the world bro!! superb!! Thanks a lot
But shouldn't you blur less sobject closer to the in focus part and blur more the one that are further ?
Looks so unreal! Awesome tutorial man
Very interesting and cool effects. Thanks for sharing your techniques.
Very nice. Give me ideas to use with Mavic mini. Excellent work.
Jesus!! thx for the tutorial!! This video is quiet useful for me!!!
Very very well done! Always wondered how this was achieved!
This is absolutely amazing
Thanks, a lot of information and something to try :)
Nice tutorial! Thanks for the clear explanation. Subscribed.
Cool ideas, thanks! This will really help me in that GoPro footage has generally limited recording manipulation options.
awesome tutorial about tilt-shift effect and timelapse!
My biggest Thanks to you and your nices Videos.
You really helped me to improve my editing skills and you had a major impact on my latest video i created.
Keep your work as dope as it is :)
Of course I'm gonna try this
thanks for the idea and the video
To save you guys some time. (You should totally watch the video actually)
It's using focal length tricks and blurs to make things look small. (So it looks like 5:55 )
thanks for your explanation, awesome!
"Take these wind meals." :) 9:20
very awesome effect!
That's an awesome technique!
Dude, that was awesome, thank you!
Great, thanks! Will definitely be giving this a go
You gave me wanna do timelapse! Thanks a lot!!
thanks for the video. I want to try this out next time i can get a city timelapse
Good video. Need to be careful about just applying a stripe of focus, though, because you'll get some things out of the stripe and blurry but at the correct distance to be in focus, and things in the stripe and clearly focused that are at the wrong distance and should be blurry. Gotta mask.
I thoroughly enjoyed this!
Great tutorial. Thanks! I love the legos too.
Thanks! :)
wonderful video and love your work bro ... always good tips and tutorials...
This camara effect i loved since the movie "game night"
A high shutter-speed while filming the original footage will give a bit more of that "stutter" that's a common characteristic of tilt-shift. ;)
Wonderful tutorial.
Amazing tutorial once again! Thanks!!
Zack snyder’s favourite effect lately
Great tips...thanks for sharing.
Great tutorial! I'll try to do it maybe next week =) thank you!
Informative. Eyeopening. Thanks
mind-blowing !!
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much!
Very good tutorial, but I have a question how do I get 24 frames per second at 5 frames per second, to get the same result that you have with the video of the beach?
I love this im inspired
Great stuff. Thx for that.
Is there such a focus blur in Premiere Pro or do I just use something like a gaussian blur and a soft mask there?
At least that works (I had expected the gaussian blur to look a bit weird as focus blur, but it actually looks very natural).
Just draw a mask around the area that is supposed to be in focus, make sure the top and bottom are very flat, with a slight curve at most, and then invert the mask and make the edge very soft.
A good rule of thumb is to make the edges of the soft edge meet in the middle and leave just a few pixels between them in the middle.
i love this effect so much TT
thanks for the wonderful tips , i am miniature artist i am working on a project in which i need to make a miniature park playing stop motion characters , i am not able to figure out what is best way to start shooting , any tutorials for shooting miniature objects like seen in between of the video
ah excellent! thanks for sharing this guys!
Awesome tutorial. Just got a drone and can't wait to try some of this out. Question - does the band of focus need to be horizontal? Can it be vertical, or even on an angle? Can it be elliptical with surrounding edges blurry? Thanks!
Love your Videos!!!
WoW!!! You are amazing
Great tutorial!
Can you show us your set up of your work area. Looks awesome!
Great as always. I have 1 question: what is the best period of time shooting photos from camera? I mean for example - 1 photo in 5 seconds and after 5 seconds another photo... Pls reply.
Well, I say one second every 1-2 seconds when shooting people should be a good happy place for you. You can always speed it up, but unless you capture it, you can't slow it down.
Shift, not tilt. These are different and the only reason that they are usually spoken together is because most main stream manufactures build both functions together. There were lenses that only have shift function. Tilting is mostly good for architecture photography which is also achievable with post processing though... you just need a lens that's wide and sharp enough.
Or it might be the other way around... english is hard T.T anyway the point is they are different and have different uses...
great vid!
Just awesome stuff! Thanks!