Timelapse

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Amerikan123

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hey, im a complete noob to the 100b world. I just got mine and i want to know how to do timelapses. whats the best set up, what are the settings, all the technical stuff
thanks so much
rich
 
If I am not miistaken interval shooting with dvx100 is possible but not true timelapse (one frame at a time at fixed intervals). With a tape based recording mechanism recording one frame at a time is impractical, if not impossible.

I just did a 2 day timelapse using Canon digital still camera. The Canon Image Browser program has a timelapse function, camera can shoot up to 1999 pictures with at least 5 second interval, pictures are stored on a laptop. After that photos are resized* in photoshop (make batch automation), pulled to PPro as a numbered sequence. That's it, you have a timelapse animation!

*) the camera picture quality setting can and should be the lowest possible (within reason), as the DV resolution is worse than almost any digital still camera low rez setting. In my camera the lowest resolution was about 1750 pix wide, which I resized to 1024 for 16:9.
 
and if you don't have a digi cam, you can just shoot regular 24p, and there's a couple plugin programs like twixtor, or veggie toolkit's timebandit. i use timebandit, and it works really nicely - you can take any 24p footage and shorten it to be whatever length you want! really easy.
 
Correct, but shooting something like 10-20 hours of 24p (20 tapes), capturing that to PC (20 hours again, 260 GB of material) and then speeding it up...

Works for short clips only.
 
Your NLE should have time features built in, most do. I don't think you need to worry about any special settings to make it work better, just make sure you have footage that your happy with. The NLE will do the rest.
 
I'm doing a timelapse at this very moment. The problem is that the 100B doesn't have a timelapse setting within the camara, so you really just end up having to do it all in post. To avoid using a ton of tapes, i just hooked my camara up to laptop (with an external hard drive), set the shutter speed to 1/4, and captured directly to the drive without the recording heads turned on (which is also good for the camara). From there I will just speed up the footage through Vegas (or any other NLE) and cut down the number of frames to correspond with whatever speed I choose. It's an pain and takes up a lot of hard drive space, but does work as long as you can bring a laptop with you. I hope that helps some. This is the first time I've tried any sort of extended time lapse, so I hope it works too.
 
If I am not mistaken the DVRack has a time-lapse feature. No tape, no wear & tear. I have DVR on my laptop but have not gone thru all the settings.
 
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