Time Lapse Movie from Stills

Manfr3d

Hey, does anyone know what camera settings work best for this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGcd6PN7EE

It seems that the individual exposures are between 1 and 2 seconds long
(see the light trails). Also there is like no gap between frames .. any motion
appears so very smooth.

Anyone know a good software for mac (free) that merges jpg's into a movie?

i_worship_the_King

hmmm... I got nothing for the mac.

I use this regularly on the PC, mainly because it can output any resolution I want (namely, 1440x1080 for our HDV cams).

http://www.aswsoftware.com/products/imagetoavi/imagetoavi.shtml

I assume macs have something similar to WINE where you can run PC programs? It's written in C++ so should run smoothly. Hopefully

BradfordBenn

I used iMovie to simply bring in the images in succession to a bunch of photos. Should be included with your Mac. I would have to sit down and document it, but basically I just bring in the media and then set the duration once it is assigned to the time line.

Manfr3d

Thanks, I'll have a deeper look at both programs!

photon

Good tutorial

Manfr3d wrote:

Thanks, I'll have a deeper look at both programs!

Just to jump in, as I was looking for some answers, I stumbled on this video tutorial... Some good points, especially the advice to drag your shutter:

http://digitalartwork.net/2007/01/30/time-lapse-tutorial/

He even talks about the software (on a Mac) that he uses: Quicktime Pro

Something neat to try...

pathfinder

Cool video, and looks pretty easy to do if you have an intervalometer.

phototristan

Here's how to use QuickTime Pro to make a movie out of a folder full of stills:

Using Quicktime Pro start a new image sequence by choosing command (control on Windows) +shift+O
o Choose the folder of images and pick the first image for the sequence
o Choose 30fps for the frame rate (as a starting point)
o (optional) Save the movie as a self contained file (it will be big!)
o Export the movie a .mov file using .H264 compression
o (optional) Set playback settings to automatically play full screen
when opened
o You now have a self contained video file.

You can then import into iMovie or another video editing application to add a title, music etc.

BradfordBenn

Thanks. That is pretty cool. I might have to break down and get QT pro now