Smooth, High Definition Video of Curiosity's Landing On Mars 78
_0x783czar writes "Filmmaker Brad Canning has released a hi-def video of Curiosity's landing. This video was captured in low res, and then extrapolated and re-rendered by Canning to produce some of the most stunning imagery ever captured on an alien world. It took Canning over a month to complete the process. He used motion tracking to add sound effects which in turn give you the sensation of the ride of your life."
Enhance! (Score:4, Informative)
clearly Enhance truly does exist... or you could just watch the Official Nasa HD version..hmm http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/
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At the end it says "Produced by Bard Canning". Brad or Bard? I presume he's less likely to mistype his name than the Slashdot editors.
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Uh... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Uh... (Score:4, Informative)
The original footage was 4fps and not exactly 1080p, so yes, and it's to be expected. I imagine with a lot more work you could eliminate most of it, but that would probably require adjusting every frame by hand (which would be extremely laborious). And by that point the end result will be even more made-up than the current result.
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I would say yes, it's the modern production fix of dropped frames, like interpolating photography when the data's not really there to increase the size. Other stuff is probably from a camera dynamically trying to balance light and color. Nonetheless, truly an awesome video.
eh.. (Score:1)
Looks weird.
CSI... (Score:2)
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CSI? Wrong site, wrong show! "There's a reflection of an alien shadow off that rock" is a line from STNG, the one where Geordi turns into some sort of weird invisible alien (it's Geordi's line word for word IIRC).
Re:STNG... (Score:2)
STNG? Wrong site, wrong show! BLADERUNNER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkcU0gwZUdg [youtube.com]
(It's Deckard's line word for word if you leave out the Esper coordinates). ; ).
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This is the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0 [youtube.com]
I found an even better one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk [youtube.com]
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Woot first post.
It really wasn't. Perhaps you were posting from Mars?
versions (Score:5, Funny)
The remastered version certainly is better quality, but I'll wait for the limited edition director's cut of Episode I: Giant Nuclear-Powered Laser Robot Invades Mars. It's supposed to be a rock-solid performance with plenty of driving action scenes.
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The remastered version certainly is better quality, but I'll wait for the limited edition director's cut of Episode I: Giant Nuclear-Powered Laser Robot Invades Mars. It's supposed to be a rock-solid performance with plenty of driving action scenes.
Remember, Curiosity shot first.
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There's no mention to the skill level of the person making this video, except for the fact they hand-did this, if you read the comment for the video.
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OK, smartass. Go download the original and post your results tomorrow. We'll be waiting.
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Seriously? That's an afternoon of work.quote>
No. That's 3 seconds of button pushing of work, maybe 2 hours of tracking and render.
Nice Video, But... (Score:4, Informative)
I like the video quality enhancements, they really bring out a lot of hidden details. The frame extrapolations, though, give a weird gelatinous effect to the video.
And I could really do without the sound effects, especially the cheesy motor sound effects at the ending.
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And I could really do without the sound effects, especially the cheesy motor sound effects at the ending.
I know times are tough, but if your computer hardware is entirely lacking volume control then the video player provides a helpful interface to control the volume.
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Thank you for the passive-aggressive response. However, my comment was directed at the portion of TFS which reads:
To add sound effects which in turn give you the sensation of the ride of your life.
In my opinion, these sound effects do more to cheapen the sensation rather than enhance it.
If you don't like that I happen to have an opinion of my own, surely your internet browser has a helpful interface element known as a scroll bar, which allows you to progress further down the page and pass up the offending opinion.
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This looks like a job for Captain Obvious Solution! All you have to do is... oh right, you guys both figured it out already.
No matter, millions still need saving from the evil First World Problems gang! Let's go, Private Pebkac, someone in the city of YouTube hasn't found the Close Tab button yet.
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I, too believe that it is of poor quality and taste, and that I could have done better.
Totally Awsome (Score:2)
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They're real sounds, they're just not from the actual landing. :-P
The same place Hollywood gets the sound of crashing alien ships.
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They're real sounds, they're just not from the actual landing. :-P
I didn't realize we had sound effects recorded in a Martian atmosphere.
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No, I mean "real" as in you can here them -- you're not just imagining the sound, it's real.
But it likely has nothing whatsoever to do with any actual landing or Mars.
There are no "fake" sounds, only sounds being passed off as something else.
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There are no "fake" sounds, only sounds being passed off as something else.
Heh.
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According to Curiosity itself https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/232524619528167425 [twitter.com] there's no microphone. So those sounds were either recorded during some other project or made in a studio somewhere specifically for that video.
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If a spacecraft lands on a planet but there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Correct name (Score:2)
FYI. His first name is Bard, not Brad.
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Neat. (Score:2)
That's very neat and all, but a little too much fake production values for my tastes. Curiosity does not have a microphone so the sounds are fake and the video is clearly not natively 30fps.
Again, very neat.
Re:The video is of aeroshell's decent, not Curiost (Score:5, Informative)
You've got it completely backwards. This video is from the bottom of Curiosity. The heat shield falls away at the start, before that the camera couldn't see anything.
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It's pretty cool that you can see the heat shield impact the ground at 1:20. (Towards the bottom of the screen, maybe a quarter of a frame from the right side and just a bit up from the bottom).
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I'm guessing you didn't watch the whole thing? Go back and do so.
Credit where credit is due. (Score:2)
Great, more fodder for the nuts (Score:2)
Just what we needed... more "proof" that all space-landing related video is faked. Look how realistic we can make it look now!
Just what the conspiracy nuts ordered :)
Can we use this technology on... (Score:2, Funny)
...the newly released and terribly blurry photos of Kate Middleton's tits? And what kinds of sounds would he add to that film?
Re:Can we use this technology on... (Score:4, Funny)
My sound effects would sound not unlike a motorboat. ;-)
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...the newly released and terribly blurry photos of Kate Middleton's tits? And what kinds of sounds would he add to that film?
Timpani, pedaled up.
http://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects/25/mp3/327399_SOUNDDOGS__ca.mp3 [sounddogs.com]
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Interpolation (Score:1)
I'm not an expert, so please correct me: Wouldn't going from SD to HD be interpolation? Where's the extrapolation?
Re:Interpolation (Score:4, Informative)
If you liked that then you'll like this (Score:2)
The DISR movies made from data from the Huygens probe landing on Titan:
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Cassini-Huygens/SEMKVQOFGLE_0.html [esa.int]
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/DISR/Multimedia/Titan_Movies.htm [arizona.edu]
Conservatives! Ugh! (Score:2, Insightful)
This movie almost makes me feel sorry for those that think this one rocket is a waste of money, while 10,000 with nuclear bombs on top aren't. Almost.
Very well done, but it's not "Ultra-HD". (Score:2)
Ultra-HD - also known as 4K [ultrahdtv.net] isn't 1080, it's 2160. Hate to nit-pick, but this article is going to look incredibly stupid still lingering on the web after 4K comes out, especially since the spec already exist and if you really want to shell out you can get an Ultra-HDTV today.
Higher quality for real? (Score:2)
Another similar effort without the fake soundtrack (Score:2)
Fewer added special effects and so on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssg0jDbLCew [youtube.com]
well that was... (Score:1)