Waterworld

My little freezer built up a lot of frost. It was time to defrost the thing. Melting frost seemed like a time-lapse opportunity.

We dragged the freezer onto the front porch and propped open the door. I took a picture every five seconds and made a movie playing the shots at 30 frames per second.

I included the whole insides of the freezer in my pictures. After watching the first movie I wished I had just zoomed in on the top two shelves. Then it dawned on me that iMovie might have a way to crop the movie. It does.

So I cropped the movie.

But it lost a fun feature.

After I started shooting the movie I thought that I should have had a clock in the shot. So I put a clock in front of the base of the freezer after about an hour of shooting. That part of the movie got cropped out.

Then I thought that I could make a movie that is just cropped to include only the clock and somehow paste it into the movie cropped to the top two shelves. QuickTime Pro came to my rescue!

Here is my movie that has been cropped to the interesting shelves and has the clock portion of the original movie inset at the bottom. There is a ugly square down there until the clock shows up. And the clock was only partially visible in the original movie (but you get to see enough to know what time it is).

I started shooting the movie at 9:15. The movie gets most interesting right at noon...be patient. And watch it in HD and expand it.