I can't provide exact dates right now as I'm writing this text, but the project aimed to capture the colors of autumn on video.

Shooting days were random, but I aimed to film twice a week, as long as the camera and laptop had enough battery per day. Weather conditions had to be considered, although a couple of rainy days ended up in the video. The camera used was a 10-year-old Nikon D60, which took pictures every 4 seconds. The pictures were transferred to the laptop, which then sent them via Wi-Fi to the home server.

With this project, I wanted to learn to use a DSLR camera and create a video from still images. In total, over 40,000 pictures (220GB) were collected, but several had to be discarded because they were shaky (I don’t have a tripod...). The first test video (about 4 months of footage) was assembled using a program called Blender and rendered for about 5-10 hours straight. The video was in 4K resolution, 60fps, and in a completely lossless .mp4 format. The video ended up being around 100GB in size and took forever to upload to YouTube with my own internet. :D

The "final video" received a lot of additional work, even though it didn't turn out perfect (thanks to either the Mediakylpylä computers or my own stupidity). I had to switch from using Blender to Adobe Premiere because there were complications. I added my own music to the video (basic FL Studio sampling, don’t mind it), did fade-ins & fade-outs for the music and the video, and tried to do color grading. The video was shortened from the original 7 minutes to 3 minutes, and its size was reduced to 40-50 gigabytes. The video is still in 4K resolution, 60fps, but I couldn’t find a lossless export option in Adobe Premiere, so the video quality has been slightly compressed.

For now, the video is only available in 1080p at 60fps because I decided to delete my old YouTube account. I didn't have the original project files or the video backed up on my computer, so I had to download the video from the old account, which only came in 1080p at 60fps. Too bad. I think I will try to run it through an AI enhancer to see if the quality matches the video I used to have. We'll see.