24p timelapse help

[lummershawn]

Ive done a bunch of thread reading, but have yet to find clear steps on how to do it. What i am trying to do is get timelapse for a project im doing for school. Problem is, the project is 24p advanced, and when im using a dvx100a it doesnt seem to allow me to do timelapse in 24p mode.

So i shot a bunch of footage at regular speed, and then sped it up 24x so that 1 sec of real time = 1 frame. problem with this, is that the edges of the 16:9 black edges were all wavey and the picture looked unstable.

So then I went and manually removed frames, keep 1, delete the next 23, keep 1, delete the next 23 and so on... of course, this took a very long time, but it looked awesome. the 16:9 bars were solid, and the picture looked great.

So what im looking for is someones trick on how to do 24p timelapse. Is there software that you know of that will manually remove the other 23 frames every second? Is there a setting in the dvx100a that i am missing that will allow to me shoot timelapse straight to the camera in 24p advanced? Most of the shooting I will be doing is with a dvx100b as that is what the school has, but if I have to use the 100a I can probably borrow it from a friend again.

any and all help will be welcome. thank you so much!

shawn
(long time lurker, new poster)

 

[Sad Max]

You might try simply using the camera as a sensor, and run its signal into your NLE/capture utility, set up to capture one frame every x-number-of-seconds.

Save yourself some wear on the heads and transport that way, too.

If you stick with the remove-every-so-many-frames route, it might be a little less painful, to export the entire timeline of the original footage as a sequence of stills, then just cull out the frames you want using your file management utility of choice, move them into their own directory, and re-import them into their own timeline.

There's also a little i-Pod-like device (advertised here, but of course now I can't find it) which connects to your camera and can be set to act as a direct-to-disk intervalometer. Something like this:

http://www.videoguys.com/FireStore.html

 

[lummershawn]

You might try simply using the camera as a sensor, and run its signal into your NLE/capture utility, set up to capture one frame every x-number-of-seconds.

Save yourself some wear on the heads and transport that way, too.

I have yet to find any NLE/Capture utility that does 24frame timelapse capture - any suggestions?

If you stick with the remove-every-so-many-frames route, it might be a little less painful, to export the entire timeline of the original footage as a sequence of stills, then just cull out the frames you want using your file management utility of choice, move them into their own directory, and re-import them into their own timeline.

I will try this - thank you!

There's also a little i-Pod-like device (advertised here, but of course now I can't find it) which connects to your camera and can be set to act as a direct-to-disk intervalometer. Something like this:

http://www.videoguys.com/FireStore.html

unfortunately a firestore is a bit out of the budget, I looked in to it, cuz it appears it would work, but I cant afford one right now while in school full time. deffinately going to look in to getting one once im done with school!

thanks for all the help. ill try exporting the sequence as stills and see how that works.

anyone else know of maybe a plug in or anything, that would remove the frames?

-shawn-

 

[Sad Max]

I have yet to find any NLE/Capture utility that does 24frame timelapse capture - any suggestions?

I think Premiere V6 had an interval-capture function...later versions don't.

unfortunately a firestore is a bit out of the budget, I looked in to it, cuz it appears it would work, but I cant afford one right now while in school full time. deffinately going to look in to getting one once im done with school!

The little iPod-like thingy advertised here on dvxuser looked like a very suitable lower-cost solution - a lot less than the linked item. I followed the dvx banner link a couple months ago, but now it doesn't seem to come up here, any more...

ill try exporting the sequence as stills and see how that works.

It's still a kluge, but it should be a lot faster than scrubbing through your timeline, looking for individual frames, and saving them out.