Saturn Cassini Holst

I played around with Cassini’s raw images and music by Holst and came up with this video of Cassini’s Saturn mission footage!

The video bursts into color only at the very end with 3 processed Earth Moon frames.

Some notes on my process:
-I used the 1024x1024 sized Cassini ISS WAC and NAC raw image frames to animate the initial movies at 24 FPS.
-I applied the “Noir” filter to the footage in iMovie rotated right.
-The initial render was slowed down to 25%, enabling even fleeting moments to be observable. The MOV source file clocked in at 172GB!
-The end result with the music by Holst was converted into a 40GB mp4 high definition video file in a square aspect and then uploaded to YouTube.

Remarkably, the looping music mostly matches the footage in a synergetic rhythm with minimal editing.

I’m working on a more dynamic and curated 16:9 edit using the calibrated Cassini images accompanied by a 11 minute music loop by Brian Eno.

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Avi