out post sound blog

I was inspired to write this post after reading a news story on the BBC website about a trillion frames per second camera that has recently been unveiled at MIT.

After sitting in on an video edit today with some clients and an great editor and grader Darren Mostin at Online Creative, with whom we do a lot of work, we had the usual audio/video discussion of whose file sizes were bigger. It all gets a bit tedious to be honest because as an audio chap it is pretty hard to win that argument - but you have to give it a go. Don't let the video boys win, ever! That's my motto...

Anyway, petty squabbles aside I was intrigued to read the afforementioned article. What a totally awesome concept. The frame rate is so fast it can capture light moving! That is something very hard to comprehend.

However, if the camera works faster than light, does that mean it is possible to travel in time with it in some weird visual way?

Suffice to say, this has nothing to do with audio, but the disk space required to store that many frames must be truely mind boggling.

Check this footage out of a pulse of laser light that lasts one nanosecond (less than a billionth of a second) and yet the camera captures it in amazing detail!

How they back all those frames up I have no idea. We however recently started using Gobbler as an off site backup solution and, even though it is still in beta, it is a revolution. Check it out.