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Time lapse video? Anyone??

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DatHak512

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Okay. For some time now i've wanted to stick a camera on a tripod and take a whole buncha pictures without moving the camera at all. I really want to do this of the sun, as i live on the marsh (well at least when i'm not in college) and some sunrises here are pretty spectacular. Has anyone done this kinda thing before? What programs and or equipment will i need? Thanks guys.
 
if you are planning on doing this from an indoor location, it may be fairly easy. You would probably want an AC adapter for the camera, and a computer. Canon has remote capture software on the computer that may be able to do this, or if not somebody may have written something.

If you have a canon dslr, there is a corded shutter that supports time lapse, t80-nc3 or some combination of such letters, its fairly expensive though.
 
ambientZ said:
if you are planning on doing this from an indoor location, it may be fairly easy. You would probably want an AC adapter for the camera, and a computer. Canon has remote capture software on the computer that may be able to do this, or if not somebody may have written something.

If you have a canon dslr, there is a corded shutter that supports time lapse, t80-nc3 or some combination of such letters, its fairly expensive though.
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Cool, thanks for the info.

I'm still trying to figure out how all of this comes together at the proscessing end, though: like what program i would need to 'assemble' the frames into a movie, without doing all that by hand in imovie or FinalCut Pro.
 
My old kodak had that feature.....So you might want to mess with the settings on your camera..
 
I have several examples that I've done here. I can provide more information about how they were captured and assembled if it's of interest.
 
Heres my go at it.

Canon Powershot G5 with the remote capture software (though I used the intervalometer thing for the first one here because I didn't have any computer...sucks, only 1shot/minutes and 100 shots max in a row...).
You'll probably need Divx/Xvid/whatever....

http://g0g0g0.dyndns.org/omgwtf/timelapse/cloudy.avi

http://g0g0g0.dyndns.org/omgwtf/timelapse/out.avi

http://g0g0g0.dyndns.org/omgwtf/timelapse/time.avi

I used Irfanview to turn them all the pictures into BMPs, then some other program to put them together into an AVI, then Virtualdub to compress it.
 
Very nice. Those came out a lot better than mine. For most of them, I think I ended up using EasyGIFAnimator or something, which meant mashing the color palette all down to one set of 128 colors or so. This one I did by importing all of the still frames into Adobe Premiere, but that was a horribly painful process.
 
Thanks. I've snagged a copy of VirtualDub and i'm going to play with that for a while. hopefully that will be all i'll need for now.
 
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