Time lapse software

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I'm thinking of learning the time lapse feature on my D300s and was curious, what software do members use to bring it all together and why do they use that particular one? How long processing the pictures would be needed for a 30 second piece? for the record i have a PC.

Id be grateful for you advice to give me some options to look at.

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I have only ever briefly played with the concept once, and it was fun (donkeys years ago) but as for the processing normal film runs at around 24 framea a second so thats 720 images. if you get them more or less right in camera post process shouldn't be that long (depending on software etc) with half decent pics and lightroom I'd probably alow about an hour-ish for tweeking, but there are a lot of variables obviously.
 
I use Adobe After Effects, but you could do it in VirtualDub too.

They just load them as an image sequence, then you render it out using whatever codec you want.

I shoot RAW, copy them to the PC, bring up the first image of the sequence in Adobe Camera Raw, process it, then apply those settings to the rest of the images in the sequence. Then tell Photoshop to convert 'em all to maximum quality JPGs, then bring into a 1080 24p project in After Effects, scale accordingly and render out as 10Bit DNxHD quicktime files for editing.
 
Thanks guys, i think ill take a look at virtual dub, i did a quick search for the adobe product and it looks like its around £800. thats a bit too pricey for a starter:lol:

John can you explain a little what you mean by rendering out with whatever codec you want means please i only have a basic knowlege of computers and editing.:bonk:
 
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Try Quicktime Pro. A lot cheaper, pretty simple and produces acceptable results.
 
clud17 said:
John can you explain a little what you mean by rendering out with whatever codec you want means please i only have a basic knowlege of computers and editing.:bonk:
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Basically, you're gonna render out in one of (mostly) 2 formats; Either AVI or MOV (quicktime).

Long story short, these are "containers" for your video & audio. Your audio is encoded using one type of "codec" (PCM, MP3, etc) and your video is encoded with a different type of codec (divx, h264, etc).

If you're just going to be getting the images out of your camera, making a straight normal video from them and uploading them to youtube or vimeo or something, then just do a search on google for Virtualdub and h264, that'll be your best bet. :)

If you want to be able to edit multiple sequences together, add titles, etc. that gets a bit more tricky.

hollis_f said:
Try Quicktime Pro. A lot cheaper, pretty simple and produces acceptable results.
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VirtualDub's free, quicktime ain't cheaper than that. :)
 
Thanks John, im just converting the finished file now to .avi, i havnt figured out how to attach audio to it yet but im happy with my first effort so far, i just need to figure out how to get it embedded into my 52 thread now.

Richard, you are right it is rather addictive. My first shot is a simple ice melting effort for the "Transform" theme in my 52, im keen to shoot a landscape one soon though.
 
You can also use windows movie maker, just add the images and music, adjust the duration of each frame and away you go.
 
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