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Step by Step guide:How to make Time-Lapse Video:

How to make Time-Lapse video a step by step guide . This will be my second posting on how to make time-lapse video, because many of you (My blog readers) have asked me to write in more details and also how to do it in Quick time pro.I agree, in my first post, I explained how to compile the shots in Windows live movie maker and make the Time Lapse video.Since it was my first try with my Nokia N8 phone, the video was not very smooth,however rendering the shots in windows live movie maker was a breeze.

Alright, than what is Time Lapse Video, and How to make Time-lapse video ? It’s not time travel obviously.Time Lapse video basically consists of Photography really,shooting a bunch of Photos of the same scene which is changing slowly,spread out over a period of time, and than combining all those shots together, run them in fast forward motion one photo after the other and producing a video, we call Time-lapse video. Its basically showing a long scene in a very short amount of time.

Time Lapse lets you see the natural progression of time, allowing you to see how things progresses in nature in a short time, without you waiting through the actual length of it. If you wanted to see a sunset right from sunrise to sunset would you expect to stand and watch the sky the whole day looking at the slow movement of the clouds and change of suns position ? that would be a Insane idea, Time lapse video allows you to see the whole process in about few minutes.So than, How to make Time-Lapse Video.

Having said that, Now there are a few basic things you need to know in creating a Time lapse film:

Choose your subject/object on which you want to shoot.In my first post I choose to show the burning down of a Cigar, this time, I made a film to show cloud movements.(see below)Choice is yours.
Figure out everything first,like where to place your camera, so you can capture the scene nicely (whole frame)
Set your camera to take the automated shots at a preset time interval
Assemble all your shots together in to a video (more on that later)
You can edit your video,adding titles, music etc.

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Now the big question (many of you wanted know) how many shots to take ? what should be the time interval between the shots ?

As far as how many shots to take, depends on what you choose to shot (hope you got that point).

The Magic formula: What should be the interval between the shots.Most of the movies that you see, has 24 to 30 frames per second (FPS), the more the FPS the smoother is the video, lower FPS will produce a jerky video.We also need to take in to consideration how long we want the final movie to be.

So how do you calculate ? say you want your final movie to be 30 seconds long with 24 frames per second

24 frames/second multiply with 30 seconds = 720 frames.

If you know how long you want your final video be, you can easily do the mathematics.Say for example, at 24 frames per second (fps) for a 3 minute long video: First multiply the video fps with the length of the video (in seconds)

So 24 fps X 180 seconds (3 minutes has 180 secs) = 4,320 : What this figure shows : You want your final movie to be 3 minutes long. Now if you decide to shoot an event or a particular scene for 24 hours, than the interval between the shots will work out as follow:-

24 hrs. is 86,400 seconds divide this with the total length of the film(in seconds) in our case 3 minutes which is 4,320 frames (86,400/4320)= 20 seconds. So the interval between shots should be 20 seconds. for taking an event lasting for 24 hours.I hope I made it clear. WAS THAT DIFFICULT ? well for those who find it difficult to understand , there’s a good news you can calculate it on line, just go to THIS SITE XDM time lapse calculator and input your figures, the program will instantly calculate for you.

If you are taking a long term event,eg. blooming of a flower,germination of a seed, which may take days, you can use a much longer interval of minutes or even hours.

Now that you got your shots, copy and save all your shots in your computer. Lets now compile and learn How to make time-lapse video.In my last post, I have already explained how to load and make the final video in windows live movie maker, I am not repeating here since that will make this post too long, you can follow that or you can use Quick time pro to render your movie. As I promised to do a post on how to make Time-lapse video, in Quick time Pro: Here it is—-

Open – quick time pro – click on file – from the drop down menu choose “open Image sequence” navigate to the folder where you saved the images earlier, you need only to select the first image and quick time pro will load the rest,before you click on open , at the bottom of the window you have to select the frame rate as shown below, because after this there is no option to change that.Quick time will load,render the movie and play it (Have some patients it will take some time).After rendering is over it play the movie.To save click on file – export – from the drop down menu at the bottom you get all the options in what format you want to save your movie choose the format and click save That’s it your Time lapse video is rendered and saved in the folder you specify.

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