A Sound Person's Guide to Video
The Timetrack Camera
"You may have come across the expression 'Bullet Time' in relation to some of the special effects sequences in The Matrix. You have certainly seen TV commercials where time seems to stand still as the camera moves..."





ABC World News Tonight

"Freeze-frame is the rage in advertising right now. You've seen the ads for clothes, cars and credit cards. Ever wonder how they do that?"






CNET TV
The New Edge
Television program





Advertising Age
Frozen Moment is Hot Idea

"'The first time I saw it I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen,' said Bill Artope, VP-executive producer at DDB Needham who worked on the Discover campaign. Even though he's a 30 year veteran of commercial production, Mr. Artope said he couldn't figure out how the effect was done."






Design In Motion
Spotlight: "CBS '98 - '99 Identity Campaign"
"CBS is launching it's new 1998-1999 identity package with a combination of graphic energy and visual effects vitality."






Millimeter Magazine Commercial News
If You Want Something Done Right...

"New York-based spot director/DP Dayton Taylor is the pioneering operator of the Timetrack camera system. That's because he invented it."






Focus Magazine (Germany)
Wenn die Welt plotzlich gefriert (When the world suddenly freezes)

"The advertising clip is astonishing: A woman jogs past a fountain. Suddenly a gust of wind whirls a businessman's papers from his brief-case - and the movements freeze. While the flying papers and their owner solidify, the woman continues. "The effect is created by computer-controlled cameras" explains Dayton Taylor, of the US film production company Digital Air, New York."






Shoot Magazine
Virtual Camera Films Real Spots

"By now you've seen the technology everywhere. Most recently in that client-direct Gap ad "Khaki Swing," directed by Matthew Rolston of bicoastal Venus Entertainment, in which a crew of Khaki-clad young people seemingly "freeze" mid-leap while dancing and prancing to swing music. But it took a major league-sized effort to put the frozen moment effect to use for a network: the aquisition of the NFL broadcasting rights."






Entertainment Weekly
Swing Shift

"Subject: The moving freeze-frame, an eye-popping camera trick currently seen in commercials for Gap Khakis, Miller Genuine Draft, and Clairol."






Time Magazine
Freeze-Frame Filming In 3D

"Imagine strolling through a crowded city street otherwise frozen in time. That's the special effect New York inventor Dayton Taylor hopes to bring to the screen with his Timetrack virtual camera."






Futureworld (TV)
Hooray for Hollywood
Television program





Beyond 2000 (TV)
Frozen in Time
Television program





VCR Magazine (Argentina)
Movimiento de Camara Virtual (in Spanish)

Spanish translation of September, 1996 American Cinematographer article.






Millimeter Magazine Hotware - A Review of New Products
Digital Air's Special Effects Camera System

"Dayton Taylor, inventor and president of New York City-based Digital Air, has designed Timetrack, a patented, multi-lensed camera system that delivers unique multi-points-of-view of one instant in time."






Yahoo Internet Life
Roger Ebert's pick as one of the Best Film Sites of '97

"It takes a while to download the "sample work" at Virtual Camera Movement, but for once it's worth the wait, because you will be able to witness something never seen by human eyes: a frozen instant of time, seen as a moving picture."






American Cinematographer Magazine New Products
Dayton Taylor Announces Timetrack Visual Effects Camera System

"Dayton Taylor, the inventor of a system for producing virtual camera movement with camera arrays (see AC Sept. '96) has announced that his company, Digital Air, Inc. of New York, NY, has begun to provide his Timetrack special effect camera systems to the motion picture industry."






The New York Press Weekly
David Lindsay's The Patent Files "Muybridge Squared"

"In the late 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge, a British prospector and photographer roaming the byways of the American frontier, happened onto one of the better deals of his era. Robber baron and racing enthusiast Leland Stanford had been talking with a friend when they got to wondering whether a galloping horse ever had all four legs in the air."






Purple Prose Magazine
"Dayton Taylor's Timetrack Camera"

"Filmmaking changes our sense of time and space--and our changing sense of time and space influences how we make films. Technology is so central to filmmaking that technical innovations inevitably breed aesthetic ones."







SIGGRAPH 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
"Camera Arrays May Change the Direction of 3D Interactive Media"
(presentation)






Industrial Light and Magic
"Camera Arrays and Special Effects"
(presentation)






Scientific American Magazine
"Pictures Worth a Thousand Cameras"

"Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle depicts a world in which a substance called ice-nine causes water molecules to freeze solid. As a consequence, any living organism that touches it turns into a statue of ice. When Hollywood decides to make the movie version of the book, the cinematographer might want to contact Dayton Taylor."






American Cinematographer Magazine
"Virtual Camera Movement: The Way of the Future?"

"Virtual Camera Movement is a patent-pending cinematographic process which separates the time-base of a virtual, moving point-of-view from the time-base of a subject. One application of the process is a system of recording moving motion picture scenes which appear frozen in time, a feat accomplished by an integrated, multi-lensed camera system which records still frames both en masse and simultaneously."