Post your Time-Lapse settings & emaples

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Jim Meegan

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Okay, who's coming with me?!?

I'm asking everyone who has been experimenting with time-lapses to post their examples and corresponding settings info all right here in a nice neat thread. You can find all this information under inspector/properties once it's on your computer and then you just cut and paste! The only thing is that you won't find the remote-timer interval info though... I dont think. So try and remember.

Oh, also include what kind of timeline you dropped it into and how you interpret the footage... I basically mean what's the fps. Frame-blending or special effects?

I'll start:



First I set the remote to trigger every 18 seconds. Then,
Exposure Mode: Manual exposure
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Time: 15
FNumber: 2.8
Focal Length: 17
ISO Speed Ratings: 160
Scene Capture Type: Standard
White Balance: Auto white balance
Lens Model: 17-50mm Tamron
After Effects: 24fps


I'll update this post ASAP with settings to my others (which include multiple time-lapses):



I think it would be helpful to everyone if we can see some differant combinations of settings all in one thread.

~ Jim
 
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5184x3456..I use a battery grip.. Shot for over 2 hours..never came close to running out of battery.
 
Recently I've been shooting video of cars and trying to get people to watch them. I do this as a hobby so I don't have writers or much of a crew at all so there's no story, which everyone wants. Since I can't do that I thought what else would get people to watch? Naked women of coarse...

Anyway, I decided to do a "Pinup" shot to create a calender and this is a behind the scene timelapse.



This was done with a 30D
Kit lens
ISO 100
f./11
Tx 15
Interval 17 seconds
 
wish i knew how to shoot timelapse without a remote time. But im guessing it's not possible.
 
It is, it's just a pain in the ass. I shot a 5 second timelapse of the stars and it was nearly two hours of me hitting the shutter, 30 sec exposure, count of 7 seconds, push shutter again. Repeat about 120 times. It's about as fun as it sounds.

So, it's possible, but not recommended...
 
BryantStanton said:
It is, it's just a pain in the ass. I shot a 5 second timelapse of the stars and it was nearly two hours of me hitting the shutter, 30 sec exposure, count of 7 seconds, push shutter again. Repeat about 120 times. It's about as fun as it sounds.

So, it's possible, but not recommended...
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Yuck.


You can get cheap knockoff TC80N timers for like $30 off ebay. I found this out after dropping 180 for the real thing of course.
 
BryantStanton said:
It is, it's just a pain in the ass. I shot a 5 second timelapse of the stars and it was nearly two hours of me hitting the shutter, 30 sec exposure, count of 7 seconds, push shutter again. Repeat about 120 times. It's about as fun as it sounds.
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Were you with the DHARMA Initiative?
 
PaPa said:
wish i knew how to shoot timelapse without a remote time. But im guessing it's not possible.
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it is actually. use a laptop. the included EOS utility software has an intervalometer. you'll have to keep the laptop tethered to the cam which can be a pain but it works really well.

the cheapo chinese timer from ebay works like a champ and is incredibly convenient.
 
What exactly is to blame for banding in a time-lapse sunset video, with added contrast using 16-bit AE, and compressed using h.264 at 10+megabits per second? Aside from taking the lead foot off of the contrast controls, how else can this be avoided?
 
Flicker hasn't been a problem, fortunately. It all looks great in AE until I export a file. It must be the compression, even though banding still results even when outputting a near lossless file.
 
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