Time lapse video of an Ultima being built.
Time lapse video of an Ultima being built.
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craig-ultima

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243 posts

262 months

Monday 24th October 2005
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During the 10 months that it took me to build my Ultima GTR, I set a time lapse camera to take a photograph in the garage every five minutes. I compressed the resulting video down to a 24 MB file (running at 15 frames per second).

The video goes for about 11 minutes. I think it is an absolute hoot - especially if you compare the first and last frames.

You can download it from www.craig-ultima.com .At the bottom of the page, if you scroll down you will see a reference to videos, and it is clearly marked.









>> Edited by craig-ultima on Monday 24th October 02:45

davefiddes

846 posts

289 months

Monday 24th October 2005
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Cracking video. Quite fun to compare it with the Westfield timelapse build that someone posted on pistonheads.tv a year or two back. There's a lot of work goes into an Ultima!

craig-ultima

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243 posts

262 months

Monday 24th October 2005
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BTW: This requires the xvid codec which can be downloaded from www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

US-GTR

109 posts

284 months

Monday 24th October 2005
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That vid is awesome!!!

Its time for a !!

steve_D

13,802 posts

287 months

Monday 24th October 2005
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That's very sureal.

I'm also impressed that you are a man of means. 3 different working jumpers.

Steve

zumbruk

7,848 posts

289 months

Wednesday 26th October 2005
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Excellent, I enjoyed that. And it gives a much better impression of the amount of work involved than the usual "it took me 'n' months to build".

I loved the perambulatory stool. But what was the step ladder for? And where's all your garden machinery, bits of old wood, old paint tins, deep freeze, work-bench, ride-on lawnmower & all the other cr*p that my garage is full of?

craig-ultima

Original Poster:

243 posts

262 months

Thursday 27th October 2005
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Thanks for the great replies.

Step ladder was used to hold a halogen light. All the rest of my junk was just out of camera shot, to the lower left of the screen. That area has about 20 feet of work benches, bench saw, router table, rip saw, all my tools and tool shelves, ride on lawn mower, snow blower, 20 ton press, bench mounted cut-off saw, grinders, junk, junk, junk.

I'm lucky that I have a big garage - probably 1000 square feet or more. I also worked on the center section off camera. That was on trestles for a good 4 months.

Plan is to add another similar sized garage on the other side of the house, with a greenhouse on top attached to the kitchen. I'm also fortunate that I have some good cheap land!

raftom

1,308 posts

290 months

Thursday 27th October 2005
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Great stuff Craig, congratulations!

BTW here is a little tune that works great as soundtrack to stuff like this: www.tripletsandus.com/80s/game/611theme.mid