GH4 GH4 time lapse...what happened???

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blando3

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Okay, so I'm new to shooting time lapses with the GH4, but I have a basic understanding of the steps. I set the GH4 to shoot a time lapse of the view out my window. 4900 frames which was to take about an hour. I went out and came back and the camera had gone into sleep mode. I turned it back on but the camera did not prompt me with the option to create a movie. So now what? I'm importing the frames into Premiere which is taking a while. Is it too late to have the GH4 create a movie?

What did I do wrong? Do I need to be at the camera's side when it's finished so I can finish the steps?

Thanks in advance.
Andrew
 
There's only 3,600 seconds in an hour. Most people set the cam to take a pic every 2-5 seconds. I think your trying to expose to many pics to quick.
 
Okay, but it took all of them. They're all there. Now how do I turn them into a movie? Or are you saying this happened because I did one frame per second?
 
when you go into playback mode it should recognize it as a sequence, and if i recall it should have a button to make a movie, pretty sure i've see it after the fact
 
Your System Frequency must be 59.94hz or 50.00hz for the camera to give you an option to create a timelapse video in camera.
 
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In Premiere, you can set the duration of a still frame to only 1 frame, and THEN import all your photos. Throw them onto a timeline, and you're basically done.

SB
 
blando3 said:
Okay, but it took all of them. They're all there. Now how do I turn them into a movie? Or are you saying this happened because I did one frame per second?
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Ok sorry, I misunderstood your question, Darren is correct, you should be able to create the sequence in camera to play back. Blando 3 is also correct. You can even use Lightroom, then export your pics as a movie. I like lightroom due to the ability to easily grade the photos all at the same time. Not that you couldn't do the same in Premiere though.
 
Camera in hand right now. In 50.00hz and 59.94hz mode you are given the option to create a video after the the time lapse has completed. In 24.00hz mode you are not given the option. If there is a way to complete it in camera in 24.00hz, I am not seeing it.
 
blando3 said:
Okay, but it took all of them. They're all there. Now how do I turn them into a movie? Or are you saying this happened because I did one frame per second?
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You turn them all into a movie but dropping them all into Adobe After Effects and use Camera raw to batch edit the lot, add new composition and render out.
 
blando3 said:
Okay, but it took all of them. They're all there. Now how do I turn them into a movie? Or are you saying this happened because I did one frame per second?
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There is a way to do this in camera after the fact, but it's not in a place you would assume. I'm recalling this from memory as I don't the camera on me right at this moment, but I believe this is correct. Turn the camera on, open the menu, then go to Playback, then Time Lapse Video. This will let you select a group of time lapse photos and create a video, just as the camera automatically prompts you immediately after a time lapse is done being shot.

If you ever select to not create a video immediately after a time lapse is finished, or your camera runs out of batteries or goes to sleep before you get to it, this is where you can create a video in camera after the fact.

maranfilms said:
There's only 3,600 seconds in an hour. Most people set the cam to take a pic every 2-5 seconds. I think your trying to expose to many pics to quick.
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Just to clear up how the timelapse works a bit, the time lapse function of the camera won't let you do something that's physically impossible. You set the interval and number of photos. Based on that, the camera then tells you what time the time lapse will end so you know how long it will take. x amount of photos at y interval will be done at 00:00pm.

However, the shutter speed and aperture is controlled by the photo mode you have selected. So manual is manual obviously, but if you are using a mode with an automatic shutter speed it's possible your scene could darken (sunset or something) and the shutter speed could automatically become longer than the interval you set to take each photo. But in this case all the camera does is take photos at the longer shutter speed as fast as it can, until it takes the number of photos you set. The interval just automatically becomes longer once the shutter speed got longer, so your end time will shift since each photo is taking longer than it initially thought. If you tell it to take 4900 photos, it will keep going until it takes 4900 photos (or the battery runs out, or you manually stop it).

So anyways, that's not the issue blando3 was running into, it's just that his camera fell asleep after his timelapse completed, but before he got to it, so he missed the automatic prompt to create a video out of the photos.
 
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