It took me a bit longer than I would have preferred but I finally completed the two timelapses from the 2016 Nerds With Real Lives Guild LAN Parties. The first is for our February Minecraft LAN and the second was for our Halo Reach Console LAN.

Minecraft LAN Timelapse

I used my tried and true method for this video. It was taken on my Nikon D3200 with one photo every five seconds. I used Adobe Premier Pro to put the photos together and crop them for the video.

Halo Reach LAN Timelapse

This event was my first time using a GoPro for our timelapses. It’s a Hero 3 Black edition taking one photo every two seconds. The photos aren’t quite 4k in size and I had to stretch them by about 5% to fill the frame but they are still higher than 1080p so I thought it would be worth it to preserve the detail. I prefer the angle provided by the lens of my Nikon over this and we were less diligent about monitoring the memory card so the video is more spotty and gets cut short. Fun fact, the plasma swirl at the end of the video was created in After Effects with this Video Copilot tutorial as inspiration and took about 17 hours to render a 5 minute animation – I chose the wrong settings the first time and had to re-render for a second 17 hour job.