Friday, February 1, 2013

Using GoPro Camera Arrays For A Live Bullet-Time Effect


This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers




Marc Donahue from Permagrin Films has been busy since his production of Dream Music, which got over 2 million views on YouTube. Most recently, Marc has been experimenting with GoPro camera arrays for a unique effect, most similar to bullet-time like in the Matrix. Click on to see the final video and read an interview with the man behind the lens.

You can follow more of Marc’s work at his Vimeo page, where he has plenty of interesting videos, as well as behind the scenes pieces on his productions using Dynamic Perception motion timelpase rigs and other fun stuff.

Here is the final video:


Fstoppers: What GoPro models were you using, and did you use the GoPro app to control them?

Marc: GoPro sent me 15 Hero 2‘s that had hero 3 processors in them. My buddy Donovan at red bull got me 5 more, and my roommate let me borrow 3 of his. So I was using a combo of Hero 2‘s and Hero 3‘s. I didn’t use the GoPro App because I had a SmallHD DP6 monitor to check my camera angles. I also attached an extra GoPro stacked atop the center camera in the array rig to use as a …



By: Mike Wilkinson


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