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My initial concept for a project I am working on that shows an actual photographed car spinning around, was to use the 'bank' of cameras taking stills approach which I could duplicate by shooting the car in the studio with a white cyclic floor and background and simply dolly the camera around the car. I want to use an actual car and not a 3D rendering like this example:
http://www.anistock.com/3d-animation-of-car-spinning-dpi4824.html
My initial concept also supposed that this would be best handled in Flash, but now that I'm becoming more familiar with FCE, I do think FCE could be the software to do the job.
Anyone have experience with this type of animation using photo stills or frames extracted from a movie? All input is appreciated for tutorials or other insights into making this work.
TIA,
Ken

Hi -
This is a very ambitious project to attempt, and I think once you try it you will understand why the effect is done with 3D models of the cars.
Even if you can find a studio with a large enough cyc wall, lay curved dolly track, maintain a perfectly consistent speed throughout the dolly, how do you avoid seeing the camera rig in reflective parts of the car? How do you light so that there is no change in the reflection of lighting in the glass windshield as you dolly around the car?
I would think that even in the most optimum lighting/shooting/stage set ups, you would still need to spend a substantial time doing frame by frame retouch of the shot (extending and making the background uniform, removing the dolly tracks from the shot, etc.)
Even if you do it with a still camera bank, there is substantial retouching involved:
http://vimeo.com/4405211
But I don't mean to discourage you. It is certainly possible. If you simply want to do the spin portion of the demo clip you showed, that would make it easier as you are dealing with fewer source frames. It is just quite a challenge.
MtD

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