Well only yesterday I started to learn about making time lapse videos. Google is my best friend since it gave advices on what should I do and what would be the best software for doing it.
If you have camera with built in intervalometer then you're happy person if you want to do timelapse. Since my Nikon D40 hasn't got intervalometer I must use software to control my Nikon. Actually I found out that most of soft doesn't want to work with my old D40 or just lacks timer/intervalometer/timelapse option. After couple of hours I found something looking not so good, but working just great: DCamCapture. It's got timer function and it's all I need.
Second is easy part - just find some image viewer which can batch process images. For long time I'm using IrfanView.
Third and at the beginning, the most painful, thing was finding something which could make video from couple of hundreds of still pictures. Every tutorial says: "...and then just buy copy of Quick Time Pro..." but nobody mentions fact that Quick Time Pro sometimes gets Error 46 and just won't work on Windows Vista/Windows 7. I found solutions, but they didn't work either. So I was baffled, it cannot be so that I must stich video together manually picture by picture. I looked harder and found beeeeeautiful little program called Photo Lapse. Just show it folder where you put all the photos and it'll make .avi clip which you can later import in some editor.
At last you need video editor to make your video uploadable to YouTube or other video site. I used VirtualDub together with KliteMegaCodecPac.
If you're going to shoot IR (infrared) time lapse as I did then you'll need Photoshop or any other software that can batch process and convert RAW files. Since I wanted to do infamous channel swapped IR video (RGB to BGR) I needed to process, crop and convert all 700 photos I took. To do so, first of all, you must create preset in Adobe RAW converter and set that preset as default for all RAW files. Then you create action (I assume you know how to create actions in PS. If not, go to Google) in which you do croppping, channel swap and/or other things you've got on your mind for your video. When you've made your action, go to File > Automate > Batch... and select your newly made action. If your workstation is slow (as mine) then process can be very long. 700 pictures on my macine took about 4.5 hours to process and convert.
After converting comes video making about which I told above. PhotoLapse (or QuickTime Pro) and then some editor of your choice.
Good hunting folks :) and here is my video on YouTube
If you have camera with built in intervalometer then you're happy person if you want to do timelapse. Since my Nikon D40 hasn't got intervalometer I must use software to control my Nikon. Actually I found out that most of soft doesn't want to work with my old D40 or just lacks timer/intervalometer/timelapse option. After couple of hours I found something looking not so good, but working just great: DCamCapture. It's got timer function and it's all I need.
Second is easy part - just find some image viewer which can batch process images. For long time I'm using IrfanView.
Third and at the beginning, the most painful, thing was finding something which could make video from couple of hundreds of still pictures. Every tutorial says: "...and then just buy copy of Quick Time Pro..." but nobody mentions fact that Quick Time Pro sometimes gets Error 46 and just won't work on Windows Vista/Windows 7. I found solutions, but they didn't work either. So I was baffled, it cannot be so that I must stich video together manually picture by picture. I looked harder and found beeeeeautiful little program called Photo Lapse. Just show it folder where you put all the photos and it'll make .avi clip which you can later import in some editor.
At last you need video editor to make your video uploadable to YouTube or other video site. I used VirtualDub together with KliteMegaCodecPac.
If you're going to shoot IR (infrared) time lapse as I did then you'll need Photoshop or any other software that can batch process and convert RAW files. Since I wanted to do infamous channel swapped IR video (RGB to BGR) I needed to process, crop and convert all 700 photos I took. To do so, first of all, you must create preset in Adobe RAW converter and set that preset as default for all RAW files. Then you create action (I assume you know how to create actions in PS. If not, go to Google) in which you do croppping, channel swap and/or other things you've got on your mind for your video. When you've made your action, go to File > Automate > Batch... and select your newly made action. If your workstation is slow (as mine) then process can be very long. 700 pictures on my macine took about 4.5 hours to process and convert.
After converting comes video making about which I told above. PhotoLapse (or QuickTime Pro) and then some editor of your choice.
Good hunting folks :) and here is my video on YouTube
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