Free timelapse skies

[plastic_]

I released a bunch of high quality timelapse sky videos in 1080p resolution and different color grading flavors.
All footage is creative commons licensed and free for personal or commercial use.
I created this timelapses to use them as backgrounds for my archviz projects, I want to share them now with the 3d community.

The only catch is that you need a (free) vimeo account to download the original mp4 files.
(sorry, I cant provide the bandwidth to store huge files on my own server)

More info and download:
http://marclorenz.com/timelapse-skies/

[Morne]

Thanks!!! This is awesome and what I've been looking for for a while now.

EDIT: deleted the question part of my comment. Rather asked a different question below

[Morne]

So is each one 2 minutes? Is that correct?

[plastic_]

So is each one 2 minutes? Is that correct?

Yes...either 5x speed or 10x speed.
So the original footage of the 10x timelapses was 20 minutes long.

[Morne]

you did an excellent job on this!

[BBB3]

Just saw this. Thanks a million. Amazing quality!

[sandykoufax]

really nice! thank you so much for sharing!

[Morne]

with my connection it's going to take 2 days just to download 1 of them
don't know if I should laugh or cry

[MoonDoggie]

Thank you very much for these Marc. They're really fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[plastic_]

Glad you like them!

Just saw this. Thanks a million. Amazing quality!

Thanks Bertrand, you talking about quality is quite a compliment!

[Morne]

hmmm did you do something?
The filesizes seems smaller by about 3 quarters today compared to yesterday?

[plastic_]

hmmm did you do something?
The filesizes seems smaller by about 3 quarters today compared to yesterday?

I didn't change anything on Vimeo...
But if you switch to the new Vimeo theme, you get new options for downloading:

Mobile .MP4 file (480x270 / 4MB)
HD .MP4 file (1280x720 / 35MB)
SD .MP4 file (640x360 / 10MB)
Original .MP4 file (1920x1080 / 756MB)

The "original mp4 file" is the one I was uploading...it's big because I used maximum bitrate for encoding.
Skies are tricky with compression, there is still some visible banding and artifacts, especially on the sunset video.
The uncompressed 16bit After Effects footage looks great, but it's like 6GB per sky, exported as EXR sequence.

[Morne]

Yes I see that, but yesterday when I looked at
Sky DuskClear001 Time-lapse 10x dynamic

it was 650 odd mb, now vimeo tells me the file is only 171mb

[plastic_]

The original file on my hd, DuskClear001_10x_dynamic.mp4, is also 171mb.
It's small because it's mostly black, after the sun goes down.
I think you are mixing it up with another sky.

[Morne]

Yes sorry you are right