Time Lapse cinematography with the A1?

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scenedirector

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I need to get the sunrise tomorrow morning and was wondering what I needed to do to make this happen as a time lapse sequence.
I was thinking capturing 1 frame every 20-30 seconds.
What do I need to do?
 
If you can shoot tethered to a laptop Adobe OnLocation and Canon Console (there's a 14 day trial version) will let you shoot timelapse sequences.
HDV is limited to certain fps setting and MPEG2 because of GOP structure.

I did a test recently with my A1: http://www.mediafire.com/?4yvtjbn29nt
(3.8MB Quicktime .MP4, shot at 1 frame/sec)

20-30 sec/frame seems very low. Better to have more frames and speed up in post if necessary.
 
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If you really want to capture one frame every 30 seconds switch to still mode - though I would recommend more like five frames per minute. Otherwise you can just run a whole tape through and speed up in post as jade mentioned.
 
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