Stabilized Video Collages, First Try

While some people are still endlessly yelling at Flickr for the new video features, some others are experimenting around it. Especially the one that were already experimenting with pictures, doing collages, blending, panoramics or any kind of little planets. On of my contact on Flickr is PaintMonkey, a very inspired photographer when it comes to photocollages. His photostream is really amazing and creative. He recently explored around the concept of “long photos” (as Flickr calls its videos) and quickly came with some collages experiments. As I was by my side discovering Motion 3 and its stabilization features, I came up with this Stabilized Collage experiment.I am really impressed about the simplicity and the quality of Motion’s stabilization features. It’s really quick and simple to work with. The first time I really got the stabilization concept was when I saw the stabilized version of the JFK assassination Zapruder’s video. At this time, I guess this has been done by hand, frame after frame, but now it’s as easy as click-and-process.

You can find an explanation of the process there : www.flickr.com/photos/ibftp/2425396334/in/photostream/
You can browse Paintmonkey's Photostream there : flickr.com/photos/epac_island/
You can watch the Satbilized Abraham Zapruder's video of kennedy's assassination here : fr.youtube.com/watch?v=9w6zveedj0o

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EDIT June 13th 2008: wow, lots of nice comments, thank you very much. It seems the Woot blog linked this piece as "the possible first Flickr-specific art form". I don't think so, but it's nice though :-)

www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=5016