How to create Time lapse?

easy. get a remote timer, or use the eos utility software with a laptop, or just press the shutter manually every (x) seconds. put the camera in full manual mode including manual white balance and iso. for example, snap one pic every 5 seconds for 30 minutes. this will give you a nice 15 second movie when played back at 23.98fps. use after effects or even simple quicktime pro to import your sequence of images and export as a quicktime movie. note, with after effects you have the ability to play with the frame to make fake pans and zooms to make things a little more interesting.

have fun.







 
cheezweezl said:
easy. get a remote timer, or use the eos utility software with a laptop, or just press the shutter manually every (x) seconds. put the camera in full manual mode including manual white balance and iso. for example, snap one pic every 5 seconds for 30 minutes. this will give you a nice 15 second movie when played back at 23.98fps. use after effects or even simple quicktime pro to import your sequence of images and export as a quicktime movie. note, with after effects you have the ability to play with the frame to make fake pans and zooms to make things a little more interesting.

have fun.
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I use FInal Cut pro on a Mac , so I would need to find a way to do this. I have the vision but just do not know how to do it. Thank you for the help and any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
 
Everything is the same as cheez said up to the import into after effects or quicktime pro 7. To do this just within FCP, put all your files in order within one folder. Within FCP, change your still settings to be 1 frame each. Import the folder with all photos. Highlight/select all the photos and drag them into your timeline. Done.

Now, if you want to treat them as one clip, you may have to export them as a .MOV and then re-import that .MOV into FCP and do your zoom, pan, color correction, etc.

There are some really great tutorials out there that will help you avoid some of the "blips" you see in videos like cheeze's first video above. Tips like using a slower shutter speed so as to create/use motion blur to your advantage (makes the motion smoother). Use google and find them.

Vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Put your vision into motion and just do it! Get your hands dirty and figure it out! You can do it!!!
 
coddida said:
Everything is the same as cheez said up to the import into after effects or quicktime pro 7. To do this just within FCP, put all your files in order within one folder. Within FCP, change your still settings to be 1 frame each. Import the folder with all photos. Highlight/select all the photos and drag them into your timeline. Done.

Now, if you want to treat them as one clip, you may have to export them as a .MOV and then re-import that .MOV into FCP and do your zoom, pan, color correction, etc.

There are some really great tutorials out there that will help you avoid some of the "blips" you see in videos like cheeze's first video above. Tips like using a slower shutter speed so as to create/use motion blur to your advantage (makes the motion smoother). Use google and find them.

Vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Put your vision into motion and just do it! Get your hands dirty and figure it out! You can do it!!!
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Excellent post, I have a shoot coming in about 2 weeks so in that time "Life Willing" I will have everything ironed out. Also your lines truly inspire me that I might have to sig that for a while!!
 
coddida said:
Now, if you want to treat them as one clip, you may have to export them as a .MOV and then re-import that .MOV into FCP and do your zoom, pan, color correction, etc.
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Easier to just nest your sequences. Drag the sequence you made using the still images into another sequence, then apply effects, scaling, whatever to this one. Your original sequence will appear as one clip in the new one.
 
rogergbh said:
Easier to just nest your sequences. Drag the sequence you made using the still images into another sequence, then apply effects, scaling, whatever to this one. Your original sequence will appear as one clip in the new one.
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Ah, yes...shoulda thought of that!
 
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