I remember being blown away watching this in the theater. It was so revolutionary at the time. Nothing since has topped that feeling of newness, seeing something totally different. 1999 was an amazing year for cinema.
@@JiihaaS He's obviously talking about the combination of creating a slow-motion scene to be viewed as the scene is moving in normal time, bullet time was revolutionary.
Two amazing things simultaneously: the work put in just to create the shot, AND also it's the most pivotal moment in the story when it's revealed that neo can move like the agents, setting up his path to become the One
This movie (and Inception, in my opinion) are the product of geniuses being let to create whatever they want. Pretty much every current movie is dumbed-down and very shallow. Take Civil war for example. Everyone loved it even though it was incredibly narrow, unoriginal and unintelligent. Movies like The Matrix are true masterpieces but unfortunately happen to be very rare. They are very conceptual and are pure brilliance and creativity reflected in the form of a film. I applaud the Wachowskis for making this incredible movie. If only half of the work and thought it took to make this was put into modern films... They are created to make a quick buck and succeed to do so due to their persuasive marketing. You think they made Finding Dory out of love? Haha, cute. It was very clear that a reboot of a previous successful movie would make lots of money. Notice the insane amount of reboots and sequels recently - Finding Dory, Ice Age 5, Independence Day, The Legend of Tarzan, Jungle Book, Ghostbusters and SO many others. It's all about the money now, and big film companies will do anything to make fucking profit.
Gaeta was the man! If you look today at films or on youtube, for 'bullet time' videos... NOTHING has ever topped the 'Neo falling' bullet time, nothing!!!
Yes. But then again all cameras are technically still cameras, the difference is movie cameras can take more pictures one after the other. Kinda like when you have a stack of paper and draw stick men in slightly different positions and flick through the pages quickly it looks like the stick man is moving. Sorry for being a pedantic assclown
There are a few issues to this. One you would need to move a camera fast enough and precise to capture the image. If you move a camera that fast you have to deal with motion blur, so you would need a really fast shutter speed like 1/1000 second, which requires 10x the amount of light. Next you would need to record in a high enough frame rate as to capture with enough fidelity so the camera move is not choppy. So that leaves us with the camera, You would need high speed camera like the phantom that can capture in excess of 250fps. The only rub with that is the shutter is a rolling shutter, so if you move the camera that fast, it will skew the image. Your vertical lines will be canted. Next the rig would me massive because the camera would be quite heavy. The last pit fall with the single camera method is control. If you are moving a camera around at high speeds, you are never in the same position for more than an instant.So if you wanted to pause your action and move your camera to the other side of the stage, it would be impossible with the single camera method because you're always moving. Finally, remember this was 1999, when the Pentium 3 was brand new, the ipod was 3 years from being announced, and an 8gb hard drive was massive. But today they do have computer controlled robots that fling modern 8k camera around much in nearly the same way as you would describe, just on a slightly smaller scale. But doing bullet time with this precision outside of the purely digital(VFX) realm is still the mark of an elite Special Effects practitioner. I hope that helps.
John said some cameras set up 150, some 120, some 360. Did he mean shuttr spead 1/150, 1/360? If they shot a scene in one stil camera setup (1/120 for example),and one motion picture camera setup (for example 1/500), how can they change frame rate of all parts of scene in post-production, when it's shot in current shutter speed? Or they make shots in different speeds? What i mean: for example, i take picture of something in burst mode at 12 fps. I can't make of them 250 fps. So how did they manage that?
If you did a 12 fps burst with with multiple cameras firing in sync and say it took 3 seconds worth of stills then you can chose the same point in time for a few of the cameras and then another of the same points in time with a few other cameras. Was rinse and repeat. I am pretty sure you can get the smoothness or slowness of 250fps. Remember the shutter speed will only affect the motion blur of the image. Now I'm assuming that in 99 Hollywood could fake motion blur in post, but to give it the standard 1/48 shutterspeed of cinematic 24fps you would need to do that in post. Or know exactly what cameras you were going to use at what points and set the shutter speed. Much like you would do for a time lapse if you want the streaky fast motion.
It can't on the same scale. And you can program those 120 cameras to shoot at the same time on someone jumping. That can't happen in one, rotating camera.
JesseRoxII he’s talking about the direction of the still cameras firing sequence. Waves would mean that he’s recording two simultaneous camera sequences that are traveling in opposing directions. It’s brilliant.
strikeout1991 hmm i do not know that exactly . . . but i believe in case of Max Payne (Game), virtual cameras were used in a totally controlled 3D environment. This is really different , cause you can do what you like to do in a virtual world. You can put so much cameras in a shot as you like if you got enough servers to render and control it. In a real world scene it takes a huge amount of time only to set the whole thing up. Still today....And 120 HQ cameras are still expensive..... You cannot just duplicate them like a 3D software is able to do so.:)
I remember being blown away watching this in the theater. It was so revolutionary at the time. Nothing since has topped that feeling of newness, seeing something totally different. 1999 was an amazing year for cinema.
@Clashroyalehindi Could you be more specific? Are you saying motion capture and 3D effects were introduced after The Matrix?
@@JiihaaS He's obviously talking about the combination of creating a slow-motion scene to be viewed as the scene is moving in normal time, bullet time was revolutionary.
@@KHANPIN The comment I replied to seems to not exist anymore. I agree with anything the op said.
Yeah 4 real it was great how they did this.
Maybe Jurassic Park and Lord of the Rings would be other examples of this.
the research and work that has gone into this is ridiculous. Wow
Two amazing things simultaneously: the work put in just to create the shot, AND also it's the most pivotal moment in the story when it's revealed that neo can move like the agents, setting up his path to become the One
This guy has been inspiring me for almost 20 years now. I think he’s one of the most brilliant and underrated minds in the visual effects world.
This movie was the share definition of CUTTING EDGE!
This was so groundbreaking 🖤
We watched this in school today :D
thanks for reinventing the cinema :)
how nice is to be a part of this.
thank you.
Got the DVD, I am so good @ the White Rabbit game
I still have the matrix on VHS tape since my childhood looking at the bullet time part.
Are you Morpheus?
This movie (and Inception, in my opinion) are the product of geniuses being let to create whatever they want. Pretty much every current movie is dumbed-down and very shallow. Take Civil war for example. Everyone loved it even though it was incredibly narrow, unoriginal and unintelligent. Movies like The Matrix are true masterpieces but unfortunately happen to be very rare. They are very conceptual and are pure brilliance and creativity reflected in the form of a film. I applaud the Wachowskis for making this incredible movie. If only half of the work and thought it took to make this was put into modern films... They are created to make a quick buck and succeed to do so due to their persuasive marketing. You think they made Finding Dory out of love? Haha, cute. It was very clear that a reboot of a previous successful movie would make lots of money. Notice the insane amount of reboots and sequels recently - Finding Dory, Ice Age 5, Independence Day, The Legend of Tarzan, Jungle Book, Ghostbusters and SO many others. It's all about the money now, and big film companies will do anything to make fucking profit.
prepare for the marvel fans
that's crazy cool!
amazing!
I really hope The Matrix Resurrection does bring back Bullet Time VFX. We rarely seen them much in cinema. :(
hahaha HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
So far ahead of it's time. When I first saw it, I couldn't believe what I was watching. That's WITHOUT the Matrix's storyline, LOL
thats awsomw
Not broken from the subject, but from the fixed perspective or POV
He said broken from the subject matter, meaning not in the same world I guess, which is correct. :P
This is the result of DRONE CAMERAS - Thank You!
awsome
Gaeta was the man! If you look today at films or on youtube, for 'bullet time' videos... NOTHING has ever topped the 'Neo falling' bullet time, nothing!!!
Dude is just simply genius. I mean...the real kind.
Que grandes cosas ha hecho Emilio Aragón
what about bullet time in blade?
Best
Dá pra fazer no Vegas? kkkk
+Welington Tutoriais Sim, mas teria de ter várias câmaras dispostas e tratar todas as imagens em seguida.
Hello, does anyone know what type of camera was used to shoot the bullet time ?
Thanks
Hasselblad
@@aliendroneservices6621 Thank you!
It could also be done with much less expensive cams. Several successful bullet rigs have been made with GoPros.
They used film still cameras for this?
Yes. But then again all cameras are technically still cameras, the difference is movie cameras can take more pictures one after the other. Kinda like when you have a stack of paper and draw stick men in slightly different positions and flick through the pages quickly it looks like the stick man is moving.
Sorry for being a pedantic assclown
So it's like instant replay in a video game but in real life. :3 so much easier to explain
That’s wrong
What model are the cameras? Anyone?
Buena Pregunta
As I can see is a Canon Eos 5 film camera.
Γιώργος Μπρούς Λυ in 1999?
ARRI Alexa and Canon EOS cameras.
Matrix creators did not invent bullet time. It's in Full Contact 1992 Hong Kong Action Film. They did improve it on a bigger scale though
Also in the movie "Blade" that came out a year before this.
Amazing that modern movies still don’t even come close to the VFX of the matrix. It’s getting worse!
Question: Why so many cameras? How different would it be if i just use one video camera and go around in circles?
+Rob Z Because of framerate per second.
isnt it obvious?
There are a few issues to this. One you would need to move a camera fast enough and precise to capture the image. If you move a camera that fast you have to deal with motion blur, so you would need a really fast shutter speed like 1/1000 second, which requires 10x the amount of light. Next you would need to record in a high enough frame rate as to capture with enough fidelity so the camera move is not choppy. So that leaves us with the camera, You would need high speed camera like the phantom that can capture in excess of 250fps. The only rub with that is the shutter is a rolling shutter, so if you move the camera that fast, it will skew the image. Your vertical lines will be canted. Next the rig would me massive because the camera would be quite heavy. The last pit fall with the single camera method is control. If you are moving a camera around at high speeds, you are never in the same position for more than an instant.So if you wanted to pause your action and move your camera to the other side of the stage, it would be impossible with the single camera method because you're always moving. Finally, remember this was 1999, when the Pentium 3 was brand new, the ipod was 3 years from being announced, and an 8gb hard drive was massive. But today they do have computer controlled robots that fling modern 8k camera around much in nearly the same way as you would describe, just on a slightly smaller scale. But doing bullet time with this precision outside of the purely digital(VFX) realm is still the mark of an elite Special Effects practitioner. I hope that helps.
John said some cameras set up 150, some 120, some 360. Did he mean shuttr spead 1/150, 1/360?
If they shot a scene in one stil camera setup (1/120 for example),and one motion picture camera setup (for example 1/500), how can they change frame rate of all parts of scene in post-production, when it's shot in current shutter speed? Or they make shots in different speeds?
What i mean: for example, i take picture of something in burst mode at 12 fps. I can't make of them 250 fps. So how did they manage that?
If you did a 12 fps burst with with multiple cameras firing in sync and say it took 3 seconds worth of stills then you can chose the same point in time for a few of the cameras and then another of the same points in time with a few other cameras. Was rinse and repeat. I am pretty sure you can get the smoothness or slowness of 250fps.
Remember the shutter speed will only affect the motion blur of the image. Now I'm assuming that in 99 Hollywood could fake motion blur in post, but to give it the standard 1/48 shutterspeed of cinematic 24fps you would need to do that in post. Or know exactly what cameras you were going to use at what points and set the shutter speed. Much like you would do for a time lapse if you want the streaky fast motion.
We lost this... I hope Matrix 4 will come ahead with this..
amazing how this can be pulled off now with a gopro and an old ceiling fan
how would that be accomplished?
It can't on the same scale. And you can program those 120 cameras to shoot at the same time on someone jumping. That can't happen in one, rotating camera.
they had ceiling fans in the past...
+DSLMVideo nowhere near as good. nowhere near as versatile.
Who is this guy speaking? amazing
i believe that is bill pope, the cinematographer
No, It's john gaeta
no, it's my cousin
it may sound fake, but it's actually true
WolfPackZGaming and im michelle obama's father
This is progressive filmmaking, this is medium pushing stuff.
Congratulations! to John Gaeta he is a big revolutionary. I love him!
3:46 The most confusing thing he said in this video. The heck does “waves” mean?
JesseRoxII he’s talking about the direction of the still cameras firing sequence. Waves would mean that he’s recording two simultaneous camera sequences that are traveling in opposing directions. It’s brilliant.
@@hellohogo Ah, I get it now. One sequence is going clockwise and the other is counter-clockwise, so the 2 sequences meet in the middle.
И НЕ БОЙСЯ В МЕЧТАХ Я ТЕБЯ ВОСКРЕШУ
Seriously, the Matrix trilogy was great, but the way Remedy used Bullettime for Max Payne, puts Matrix into shame.
Hate to point out the obvious here but the Matrix was released in 1999 while Max Payne (the movie) was released in 2008.
Gixxxer138
Not the movie, I'm talking about the Max Payne games vs the Matrix Movie and yes you can compare them.
strikeout1991 Still, a game from 2003 , bullet time was used in the Matrix for the first time
strikeout1991 hmm i do not know that exactly . . . but i believe in case of Max Payne (Game), virtual cameras were used in a totally controlled 3D environment. This is really different , cause you can do what you like to do in a virtual world. You can put so much cameras in a shot as you like if you got enough servers to render and control it. In a real world scene it takes a huge amount of time only to set the whole thing up. Still today....And 120 HQ cameras are still expensive..... You cannot just duplicate them like a 3D software is able to do so.:)
+Andreas Kress How old are you? Max Payne didn't do anything first, so what you're saying doesn't make sense.
Jesus christ that guy almost put me to sleep
Wally West His job is not to be in front of the camera, but behind it.
This isn't your video- where are your sources? You can't just post something without citing where it originated. poor choice. poor ethics.
This is youtube dude....
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