I've settled with a basic idea for Project 2. Using some prerecorded footage I wanted to try the Overlay effect again from this datamoshing tutorial. Essentially it involves combining two video clips into one by keeping a single I-frame at the start and removing the rest throughout the clip. From what I learned, I-frames are like key frames, and the other type, P-frames, are the in-between frames. So after removing the rest of the I-frames we are left with only P-frames, and the blending effect follows.
Both clips are from the same street and highway entrance/exit, but the notable difference is day and night. I wanted to see how the clips blend together and then got some interesting visuals. The audio is nothing special though, just cars humming by.
The quality after upload is really terrible, so here is a Google Drive link for a more HD version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1w16GJvor0SQUd0U2IxTFpZbXc/view?usp=sharing
It looks wicked, really. However, the process is time-consuming. I needed to convert the MP4 to an uncompressed AVI format, then after removing the I-frames, convert it back to MP4 so it is a more portable and viewable format; with a high resolution of 1440p, it's not hard to imagine how tedious it is. In the future, I would clip the videos so they are more manageable.
It would be cool to do a day-and-night like here, experimenting with sunrise and sunset. If time permits that's worth looking into. Otherwise using footage from different types of roads should provide enough difference to create the overlay effect. There's also the bloom effect mentioned in the tutorial, I'll play around with that next. So many factors to experiment with!
