Cool Video - Engine Rebuild

[46Ply]

https://www.facebook.com/disturbreality/videos/886025181441560/

[wayfarer]

For this old guy, can anyone explain, in non-technical terms, how the video was made?

[Merle Coggins]

He took a LOT of pictured during the whole process and then linked them together into a video format. Like stop motion animation. (think Gumby)

 

Merle

[Ulu]

Hey! That's the engine from my old MG Midget!

 

(Oh, no...an MGB, huh?)

Edited April 29, 2015 by Ulu

[RodFru2u]

Nope, Looks like a Triumph from the wooden shifter knob and maybe a Spitfire from the chrome hood (Bonnet) clips/locks. Nice Video. Thanks for posting it. Wish it were that fast and easy to do.

[Ulu]

Oh, yes. I didn't watch the whole thing.

 

It certainly is a Spitfire. You see the whole top of the car for about 1/4 second.

[Todd B]

Great video, I do not do face book and have no intensions to join the cult.  But how can I send that video to a buddy who builds motors?

[Don Coatney]

Copy and paste the link into an e-mail

[Merle Coggins]

Todd,

It's on youtube. Send him this link (remove the first h)

hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME

Edited April 30, 2015 by Merle Coggins

[deathbound]

Todd,

It's on youtube. Send him this link (remove the first h)

hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME

Why type an extra "h" in the link & say to remove it?

[Tones52]

Now that was a "Money" video. Merle's link worked just by clicking on it. Thanks for posting it 46ply.

[Young Ed]

 

I thought maybe without the extra H it would turn from a link into a preview of the video but it doesn't seem to. Merle??

Edited May 1, 2015 by Young Ed

[Merle Coggins]

Why type an extra "h" in the link & say to remove it?

 

I thought maybe without the extra H it would turn from a link into a preview of the video but it doesn't seem to. Merle??

 

Yes, Ed is correct. Before I added the extra "h" at the front it would show the youtube video, not the link. By adding the "h" to the front it broke the link to youtube and only showed the link. I found it strange though that the real link was still created without adding the extra "h".

[wayfarer]

He took a LOT of pictured during the whole process and then linked them together into a video format. Like stop motion animation. (think Gumby)

 

Merle

Thanks...I think.... I don't know who gumby is.

I understand the concept of linking still photos but where does the 'movement' come from ? Parts just don't fly into place without a guiding hand, which is absent.

[Merle Coggins]

It's all a series of pictures. In some cases he would take a picture, turn the part slightly, take a picture, turn the part more, take a picture, etc. In the case of the valves going in you can keep hitting the pause button and see that he would take a picture, move the valve closer to the head, take a picture, tip the valve against the head, take a picture, set the valve in the pocket at an angle, take a picture, insert the valve into the guide, take a picture, seat the valve, take a picture, etc.

 

When you link them all together your mind just sees it as motion rather than a series of pictures.

 

I thought everyone knows who Gumby is;

[46Ply]

That's a whole lot of pictures!  Sounds like tedious work to me.

[TodFitch]

That's a whole lot of pictures!  Sounds like tedious work to me.

I was thinking that too. Maybe some cameras can be setup to take a picture automatically at a set time interval, then you could put it on a tripod and forget about it. Otherwise you'd always be stopping every little bit to take another picture.

[Ulu]

Actually, with huge storage space gone cheap (I got a WD 2TB HDD for $80 new today) now you can just use an HD video camera, shoot the whole time, & then pull out the frames you want to see & discard the rest.

 

I've made silly movies for the grandkids like that.

 

I shot a movie of my boss's 60th bday party, and at the end I used the stop-motion trick to make him dance around. Funny stuff.

 

I have all of Gumby on DVD & watch with the grandkids. To anyone who has never seen Gumby, the old ones from the 50's & 60's were classic, but the ones "revived" in the '90s suck.

[pflaming]

Amazing what electronics allows. I remember when electricity came to our ranch. Dad took down the six volt wind charger which was a car generator powered by an airplane propeller and six large glass batteries in the attic. No more strings tied to the ceiling light fixture pull chain and run to the head board so we could turn out'n dah lite from our beds.

Edited May 4, 2015 by pflaming