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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / December 2006DSLR time lapse
This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. 8.75MB wmv file: <http://www.edgehill.net/1/California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neighborhoods/2006-1 2-08-storm-movie/video/storm.wmv> Glimpse of a still jpeg: <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neigh borhoods/2006-12-08-storm-movie> I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, the D200 has an interval timer function, 4 seconds seems to work for most clouds, this is only 15 fps, well Windows Moviemaker turns it into 30fps. I used VirtualDub.exe freeware to compile the jpegs, Irfanview to quickly batch them down to 640 wide, CoolEdit to fade the sound out at the end and free Windows Moviemaker to assemble the bits, refine the timeline & add titles & credits. About 1,500 frames. Note, for VirtualDub you need to rename the files in a perfect sequence (no gaps), I used Adobe Bridge then open the first image and it opens them as a movie, then be sure to set the frame rate and output format/codec. The default uncompressed was 170MB without music! Here's a 14MB time lapse done over a month this past summer in Arizona: <http://www.edgehill.net/1/Southwest/2006-08-AZ-clouds-movie/AZ-2006-edgehill.net _music-kjartan_sveinsson-sidasti_baerinn.mp3.wmv> > This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. > 8.75MB wmv file: [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Here's a 14MB time lapse done over a month this past summer in Arizona: > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/Southwest/2006-08-AZ-clouds-movie/AZ-2006-edgehill.net _music-kjartan_sveinsson-sidasti_baerinn.mp3.wmv> Really neat, thanks for sharing. I am going to have to give it a try, like my camera does not already get enough shutter clicks as it is. Scott > This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. > 8.75MB wmv file: > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neighborhoods/2006-1 2-08-storm-movie/video/storm.wmv> > I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, the D200 has > an interval timer function, 4 seconds seems to work for most clouds, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Here's a 14MB time lapse done over a month this past summer in Arizona: > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/Southwest/2006-08-AZ-clouds-movie/AZ-2006-edgehill.net _music-kjartan_sveinsson-sidasti_baerinn.mp3.wmv> Very nicely done! Esp. when I moved it to fill the screen. What res. do the images inside of WMV files hit? Can one pump this out to a HD tv and see really high res.? I am sorry I can't even give the equivalent info for QT files playing out on HD.  Signaturejohn mcwilliams >> This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. >> 8.75MB wmv file: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > see really high res.? I am sorry I can't even give the equivalent info > for QT files playing out on HD. I did 35mm format 640x428 and Windows MovieMaker stretched or cropped that to 4/3 TV aspect ratio. Irfanview can batch crop. You can do any size I think but WMM will crash eventually. Glad you enjoyed. > This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. > 8.75MB wmv file: > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neighborhoods/2006-1 2-08-storm-movie/video/storm.wmv> > > Glimpse of a still jpeg: > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neigh borhoods/2006-12-08-storm-movie> Very nice! You obviously have a lot more patience than me! Cheers, David >> This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. >> 8.75MB wmv file: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Cheers, > David Wow, some neat clips!!! I experimented some, your clips really make me realize how crappy Ohio is, weather wise and scenery..... Have done some time lapse stuff, with some software called Image Salsa, searches on the Internet did not turn up very much info a couple years ago, as far as software. I did some clips of the Christmas party at home, friends and family got a laugh watching themselves 'shuffle' high speed across the floor. >This one is pretty simple but fun and satisfying to do. >8.75MB wmv file: [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] ><http://www.edgehill.net/1/Southwest/2006-08-AZ-clouds-movie/AZ- >2006-edgehill.net_music-kjartan_sveinsson-sidasti_baerinn.mp3.wmv> These are great! I'm going to cross-post this to another "home" of mine on Usenet, where there are more people who will enjoy looking at them:-) Helen Helen Edith Stephenson <helen at baronmoss dot demon dot co dot uk> -- (I'm sure you can figure out what I mean!) http://www.wuronga.me.uk/helen/ > In article <WeKeh.883$yC5.127@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, Paul Furman >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Helen Edith Stephenson <helen at baronmoss dot demon dot co dot uk> Nice idea, and I hope setting follow=ups is all right with you. Signaturejohn mcwilliams >I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, Paul, Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Now I'm going to have to upgrade my laptop so I can try this with my D70. I hate you. :-) Cheers, DuncanC >> I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cheers, > DuncanC How old is your laptop?? Mine is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300, added a little (ram) memory so I could run XP pro and it works with my D70... Dave M. >>> I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > little (ram) memory so I could run XP pro and it works with my D70... > Dave M. What software are you using? >>>> I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, >>> Paul, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > What software are you using? Of course I use Nikon Capture 4 camera control for the D70, then to compile the jpeg's into a movie I use Movie Salsa: http://www.imagesalsa.com/MovieSalsa/ Movie Salsa will let you make a movie in many formats/compressions, including Divx.. There is also Image Salsa available for taking pictures using a webcam or other capture device. http://www.imagesalsa.com/ >How old is your laptop?? It's an IBM Thinkpad ($4,500 in 1998) with Win98SE, 3Gb of disk, and 128Mb of RAM. So you can see why I hate Paul. :-) Cheers, DuncanC My daughter (Lauren, 9) and I put these two short animations together by shooting a whole lot of still images with her camera and putting them together in Adobe Premier to make a movie. All told we spent about two hours on these: <http://www.experimentaldigitalphotography.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=29&pos=0> Very different to yours, Paul, as these are claymation type animations, but they were fun to do and taught Lauren how animations are done. Cheers, Wayne SignatureWayne J. Cosshall Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/ Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/ > My daughter (Lauren, 9) and I put these two short animations together by > shooting a whole lot of still images with her camera and putting them [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Very different to yours, Paul, as these are claymation type animations, > but they were fun to do and taught Lauren how animations are done. It is fun :-) >> My daughter (Lauren, 9) and I put these two short animations together >> by shooting a whole lot of still images with her camera and putting [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > It is fun :-) Congratulations to Lauren! But what are those dinos doing right at the end?? P 14 rating? Signaturejohn mcwilliams >>> My daughter (Lauren, 9) and I put these two short animations together >>> by shooting a whole lot of still images with her camera and putting [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Congratulations to Lauren! But what are those dinos doing right at the > end?? P 14 rating? MA+, I think :) SignatureWayne J. Cosshall Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/ Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/ > I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, What kind of software did you use? >>I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, > > What kind of software did you use? With the D70 I used Nikon Capture. >>>I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, >> >> What kind of software did you use? > > With the D70 I used Nikon Capture. Paul: I'd be interested in the process and software you used to transform the stills into the movie and soundtrack. I understand you batch resized them to 640 X 480 with IrfanView, but from then on it starts to get less clear. I just recently upgraded from a D70 to a D200, so I won't be needing the Notebook/Capture connection. Peter iNova, in his D200 eBook recommends using QuickTime Pro to animate the stills, and makes a few recommendations as to intervals. I'd be interested in what you found as an interval preferences. I live in Arizona, and watching your time-lapse movies have inspired me to give it a try with my new D200. Russ >>>>I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, >>> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I live in Arizona, and watching your time-lapse movies have inspired me to > give it a try with my new D200. I think I explained it, repeated below. I used VirtualDub to make the jpegs into .avi movies, for something more complex, make each sequence a separate movie & use Windows MovieMaker (WMM) to arrange them and clip the ends as needed to get the timing right. You can't get WMM to compile jpegs except at like 1 frame per second. I'm sure there are simpler paid software solutions, this is a free way to do it. CoolEdit is not free if you need to fade out a song for a short movie. VirtualDub can add sound too I think but you'd have to guess the timing. --repeat--> ...the D200 ...interval timer function, 4 seconds seems to work for most clouds, this is only 15 fps, well Windows Moviemaker turns it into 30fps. I used VirtualDub.exe freeware to compile the jpegs, Irfanview to quickly batch them down to 640 wide, CoolEdit to fade the sound out at the end and free Windows Moviemaker to assemble the bits, refine the timeline & add titles & credits. About 1,500 frames. Note, for VirtualDub you need to rename the files in a perfect sequence (no gaps), I used Adobe Bridge then open the first image and it opens them as a movie, then be sure to set the frame rate and output format/codec. The default uncompressed was 170MB without music! >>>>> I have done these with a D70 tethered to a laptop before, >>>> [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > it opens them as a movie, then be sure to set the frame rate and > output format/codec. The default uncompressed was 170MB without music! Interestingly, ProShow Gold is exceptionally GREAT at producing stop-motion animation movies! Perhaps best of all is that it's so easy to adjust frame duration/rate either as a whole group, or portions...or even pausing longer/shorter on individual frames. Add to this that you can put in captions with full motion effects within any range of photos...and a musical soundtrack...and you've got a great animation package. I've done a number of goofy little things like that as kid projects for pure fun. My only problem is figuring out how to post the clips. :) Take a look at ProShow Gold from www.photodex.com. It's a great program for this, even though it's really designed for pan/zoom/sound slide shows (which it happens to be the king at...). -Mark² SignatureImages (Plus Snaps & Grabs) by Mark² at: www.pbase.com/markuson |
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