Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second

Tallon

Wow


http://vimeo.com/4366695

This amazing video by Spacecraft Films shows the July 16, 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. The camera was rolling at a whopping 500 frames per second, allowing the first 30 seconds of the launch to be slowed down into this 8-minute narrated video of pure awesomeness.

sprinkles

That's pretty spectacular alright!

Thecageyone

As the Yanks would say ... "Awesome" ... though i was a little disappointed they didn't show the 30 second full speed clip on the end.

Kintarō Hattori

That was pretty amazing alright. Thanks for the link Tallon.

mikeanywhere

Great images but the narration is somewhat crap

ynotdu

Tallon wrote: »

Wow


http://vimeo.com/4366695

Tallon,absoulutly Brilliant!!!!! Thank You!:)

I was wondering could You post that in the Space&Astronomy forum?It is TOO good not to,If not can i do so but credit it to You? What a find!!!!!!
Astronomy/space forum can be found under the Science drop down menu.
There is a video first posted by Lord Lucan entitled Astronauts as filmakers about the crew of the Space Shuttle that carried out the last repair/upgrade mission to Hubble that i would love to post here.
pardon the pun but like Hubble was before it had to be serviced by 'Specsavers' it's all a bit blurry about double posting across forums!:)

A new IMAX film is to start showing soon with much of the footage taken during the last Hubble Shuttle mission{to see that if Irish closest IMAX Cinema is in UK:eek::)}

subject to mod approval of course!:)

Tallon

ynotdu wrote: »

Tallon,absoulutly Brilliant!!!!! Thank You!:)

I was wondering could You post that in the Space&Astronomy forum?

Done... and your welcome

hbr

Thecageyone wrote: »

As the Yanks would say ... "Awesome" ... though i was a little disappointed they didn't show the 30 second full speed clip on the end.

If they did, would you be able to watch it?

Tallon

Thecageyone wrote: »

As the Yanks would say ... "Awesome" ... though i was a little disappointed they didn't show the 30 second full speed clip on the end.

hbr wrote: »

If they did, would you be able to watch it?

I could edit it and post it later if you's want?

ynotdu

Tallon wrote: »

I could edit it and post it later if you's want?

Please do Tallon!
NASA 'lost'their original footage of Apollo 11 and only had copies until the originals were found still in the can last Year.There is an amaing difference in PQ and even the original footage is still being enhanced.

Makes Your OP all the more truely amazing!

hbr

Tallon wrote: »

I could edit it and post it later if you's want?

But then would I be able to watch it? 500 fps is a lot faster than my old Aldi monitor can cope with. Other than throwing away most of the frames, how would you get it to run in real-time?

Tallon

hbr wrote: »

But then would I be able to watch it? 500 fps is a lot faster than my old Aldi monitor can cope with. Other than throwing away most of the frames, how would you get it to run in real-time?

I'll try a few things, see what I can come up with

Tallon

Here it is reduced to 2 minutes....

http://vimeo.com/11319171


I have reduced it to 30 seconds, but it's just rendering now

Edit: Here you go, doesn't look as dramatic though

http://vimeo.com/11320635

Thecageyone

hbr wrote: »

If they did, would you be able to watch it?

Would it not just be a video replication of that 500fps?

Tallon

Thecageyone wrote: »

Would it not just be a video replication of that 500fps?

Look above and see, I think it came out fairly ok. I do have a decent monitor though

Thecageyone

Tallon wrote: »

Here it is reduced to 2 minutes....

http://vimeo.com/11319171


I have reduced it to 30 seconds, but it's just rendering now

Edit: Here you go, doesn't look as dramatic though

http://vimeo.com/11320635

30 second one works perfectly, cheers - Good to see it in the actual speed [or as close to as possible] - shows off more of the ferocity of the take off.

The 2 min one is private though.

Tallon

Thecageyone wrote: »

30 second one works perfectly, cheers - Good to see it in the actual speed [or as close to as possible] - shows off more of the ferocity of the take off.

The 2 min one is private though.

Hmmm, don't know why it was private, should be viewable now

Thecageyone

Yeah the 2min is viewable now and works fine. Seemed a little choppier than the 30 sec one to begin with but then became steady. Good stuff.

The narrative may have been 'crap' on the original but without it I'd not have known that was cooling water being sprayed back down insta-turning into steam. I'd have thought it was smoke or vapours from the fuel or something.

hbr

Tallon wrote: »

Here it is reduced to 2 minutes....

http://vimeo.com/11319171


I have reduced it to 30 seconds, but it's just rendering now

Edit: Here you go, doesn't look as dramatic though

http://vimeo.com/11320635

Thanks Tallon. That gives a greater impression of the power of the Saturn V than the high speed version.

magicbastarder

if you haven't seen this film, buy it. goosebump city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0XHn3FtiU&feature=related

check out the exhaust at about 3:45 - and remember the rocket is roughly the height of the spire.

ThOnda

I wish they had put a pig's head down there...

ynotdu

magicbastarder wrote: »

if you haven't seen this film, buy it. goosebump city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0XHn3FtiU&feature=related

check out the exhaust at about 3:45 - and remember the rocket is roughly the height of the spire.

Hi magicblaster,really enjoyed that clip!:)
I have seen that documentry but it must have been an edited one.
I really like that it is Subtitled/Close captioned for those who cannot hear.

I will proably be accused of post count whoring:rolleyes: but i could not resist a response to Astronaut John Youngs heartbeat remaining at 70 BPM.

It has come up in the Space/Astronomy forum a few times about how cool a character He was.In total He flew Six Missions over diffrient NASA Launch Vehicles.

He along with Bob Crippen were the two Astronauts on the Very first Shuttle mission{It was the first time EVER any Spacerafts maiden flight into Space was Manned}

Same thing happened Youngs heartbeat remained average at Launch but Crippens shot through the roof:D
Crippen got a terrible Ribbing/Slagging over it,poor guy.
It was Young who was the 'unnatural one' on heartbeats compared to most mortals under pressure!:D

hbr

Thecageyone wrote: »

Would it not just be a video replication of that 500fps?

The original was recorded on film at a high frame rate of 500fps. This would provide a detailed record of what happens at launch time. This is very useful at the best of times and even more so when things go wrong. Video provided the main clues to the causes of both shuttle disasters.

You can't reproduce this in real time on TV or computers which have typical frame rates ranging from 25-100fps. Even if you could, there wouldn't be much point in doing it. Our persistence of vision would prevent us from seeing the improvement.

The original film has 15000 frames covering a period of 30 seconds. Showing this at the US TV frame rate of just under 30fps takes more than 8 minutes. To show it in real time on a 30fps system, you would have to discard 94% of the frames, although you might be able to use information from the discarded frames to improve the quality of the remaining frames. Using lossy compression systems like MPEG1/2/4 will further reduce the information contained in the video. Depending on the encoding scheme used, Tallon's 30s video probably has less than 1% of the information that was on the original film.