{"id":13688,"date":"2020-03-31T22:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/?p=13688"},"modified":"2020-03-31T22:32:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:32:21","slug":"significance-of-40-milliseconds-and-relation-to-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/2020\/significance-of-40-milliseconds-and-relation-to-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The significance of 40 milliseconds and how it is related to architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCorona Time\u201d lockdown is an opportunity for deepening: thoughts, knowledge, skills. I find myself drawn to video editing, something I like to do very much. I never formally studied it (so sorry if the terms I&#8217;ll use are not totally professional), but rather had the chance to practice for YouTube and then even got paid for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXR-5jyQXynXL-YuL0Vb4kumo1qy5MSJy\" target=\"_blank\">some projects<\/a> while studying architecture.<\/p>\n<p>As both an architect and a video editor, I always didn\u2019t think there\u2019s any particular connection between the two. Well, I\u2019ve produced some videos about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXR-5jyQXynXOoedhI373kiUkoJEpHhPL\" target=\"_blank\">architecture in the world<\/a> following my travels, but that\u2019s not what I mean. In the last three days I worked on an editing project that was a revelation in that sense\u2026<\/p>\n<p>First, watch the video:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kad-youtube-shortcode videofit\"  ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B4Rgyds6ckU?autoplay=1&controls=1&fs=1&modestbranding=1&theme=dark&rel=1&loop=0&showinfo=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Space, Time and Scale<\/h2>\n<p>As architects we deal with <strong>SPACE<\/strong>. Space is the main arena in which we work, and we utilize it while designing in a varied <strong>SCALE<\/strong>: from a door knob, through a building up to a whole neighborhood. The higher you go in \u201cspace resolution\u201d, the more attention is needed for details. Video editing is mainly a <strong>TIME<\/strong> domain work. We design a sequence, in which <strong>SCALE<\/strong> is also a critical aspect: from a short commercial through a short film up to a feature film. In editing as well, the shorter the film, the higher attention needed for details, or higher \u201ctime resolution\u201d. So the significance of <strong>SCALE<\/strong> and the relevant resolution is a common aspect both in architecture and in video editing (and cinema in general\u2026). The <strong>TIME \/ SPACE<\/strong> duality make an interesting complementary aspect.<\/p>\n<h2>About WELCOME video<\/h2>\n<p>Here are a few words about \u201cWELCOME\u201d video clip. The initial aim was to create a short video as a welcoming clip to my YouTube channel. I decided to make a \u201cBest of\u201d clip based only on existing edited footage. That still gave me a base of about 150 clips to work with.<br \/>\nAs background music, I wanted a short dramatic piece with a notable crescendo. Searching YouTube music library I found \u201cTo BE A Ball Of Light\u201d by \u201cLate Night Feeler\u201d, A 109 seconds \u201ccinematic\/dramatic\u201d piece. Perfect!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>I aimed at editing the video such that the cuts will be in sync with the music, to give the clip a notable rhythm. Working on a 25 frame per second time line, analyzing the tune, I learned that the beat is approximately one second, hence working on chunks of 25-26 frames. For the more dramatic parts I used \u201cHalf rhythm\u201d units of 12-13 frames. While doing the rough editing placing the various shots, I did not finalize the exact shots\u2019 lengths, but rather placed them and cut them by hearing (for some reason, beat detection did not work well on my editing software).<\/p>\n<p>As the editing iterations became more and more precise, I noticed that something is still wrong with the clip\u2019s flow. I then checked all the shots, just to find that a single 14 frames shot in a sequence of several 13 frames shots was disrupting the flow! As always, discovering things by yourself is more emotional and better memorized, so for me it was a significant lesson: The importance of one frame, or 40 milliseconds!<\/p>\n<p>Relating that back to architecture, try to step through a staircase in which one of the stairs\u2019 run or rise is different by several millimeters! That\u2019s going to be a risky task\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, I must admit that it\u2019s quite symbolic to undergo this lesson during \u201cCorona Time\u201d, when the meaning of time is revised\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video editing and architecture &#8211; they meet in an interesting aspect. Watch and read about a short clip I edited, and taught me an important lesson about details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,17,57],"class_list":["post-13688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13692,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions\/13692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyshachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}