Cars & Coffee

Huntington Mercedes hosted a “Cars & Coffee” event a few weeks ago — It was an opportunity to try a style of editing that’s been growing on social media among car enthusiasts. It involves shooting various parts of a car using a gimbal so when editing, you can do forward/reverse speed-ramping, creating super smooth shots. Shooting 60 frames a second along with the vertically balanced gimbal gives you a 9x16 format that looks awesome fullscreen on mobile devices.

All of the chosen clips in blue along with the rendered dynamically-linked clips

The whole fam came too!

These are my first attempts trying this method in a vertical format for Instagram so a lot of prep had to go in prior to shooting just to balance the camera vertically on the DJI RS2. I’ve seen other cameras like the Sony A series balanced vertically with no issue but the Blackmagic 6K being a larger camera, will take more time to properly balance on all 3 axis.

I shot over 250GB of footage in BRAW format to properly handle exposure. Using Adobe’s dynamic link, I would do each clip’s time-remapping in After Effects since the real key to pull of the effect is forcing motion blur which isn’t an effect available in Premiere.