Comments on: Time-Lapse Tutorial

By: tkalhous

tkalhous — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:40:52 +0000

Here is my timelapse of building house. YouTube version i here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YotlZ_6b8r0

full quality QT you can download from this:
http://www.alkstav.cz/download/timelapse_alkstav_long_hi.mov

By: Thad

Thad — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:15:18 +0000

An interesting tidbit of info about Time-Laspes and the NCAA. I shot a time-lapse of the first round of basketball games in Omaha this weekend. We published the time-lapse on http://www.kusports.com and http://www.ljworld.com

Two days after posting, I was covering the second round games and I got word from my colleagues that officials from the NCAA were up-in-arms about the time-lapse. They thought I had shot video of the tournament, which is prohibited. I had to try to explain time-lapse technology to an NCAA official. After only a few words, I could see his eyes glossing over. He was just too technical for him to grasp in a few minutes. Needless to say, he ended up believing me that I wasn’t siphoning their live video feed from NBC, which was his original assumption.

Two days after the issue, we still haven’t reposted the time-lapse out of fear the NCAA might decide to pull our credentials. Strange week for time-lapses.

By: Katharine Sidelnik

Katharine Sidelnik — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:44:14 +0000

there are a bunch of cool ones on here too…

http://www.vimeo.com/photomotion

By: Voices in my head: Zach Wise [podcast] : MultimediaShooter

Voices in my head: Zach Wise [podcast] : MultimediaShooter — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:33:57 +0000

[...] Here’s the link to the time-lapse tutorial Zach talked about in the [...]

By: Oldsalt19

Oldsalt19 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:10:53 +0000

Maybe I missed something…But it seems that you may need a Canon DSLR to do this. You mentioned the brand of the timer but unless I missed it, you do not mention if you have to have the Canon camera, whether it will work on other cameras, etc etc. Otherwise, great stuff! When I was writing for publication, I would have other people read it before I sent it to the editor. They would pick out stuff like this all the time that I would have to fix.

By: dominic

dominic — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:27:28 +0000

Zach,

Shame on me, indeed.

On the flip side, my excuse is that I posted the final video around 3am, roughly 5 hours after my usual bedtime.

Having said that, I found your tutorial incredibly useful – and the link to my (future) time lapse(s) is here:

http://www.the-infinite.org/blog/articles/category/lapses-in-time

By: Shotgun Mag

Shotgun Mag — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:42:20 +0000

Hey great stuff.
Here is another tutorial about time-lapse photography and using Motion.
http://www.shotgunmag.co.uk/?p=110
Enjoy!

By: Antony

Antony — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:12:11 +0000

grat stuff!
one query, pls.
What do you mean by “drag the shutter”?
much appreciated if answered
thanka!

By: Jon Hill

Jon Hill — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:49:13 +0000

I just put up a page http://www.safarishots.com/timelapsearticle.htm describing how I’ve made time-lapse sequences with a Nikon D2x DSLR and Photodex ProShow software, exporting Flash-based video.

By: zach wise

zach wise — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:06:44 +0000

You can try brightcove, their quality is usually a bit better. Also Revver can be quite good.

By: David Emmett

David Emmett — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:01 +0000

Great tutorial. I just finished creating a time lapse video shot over 12 hours at the Relay for Life event held at my university.

http://davemmett.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/70/

I’m wondering if you have any advice on where to host the completed videos to obtain a decent size and resolution. When I posted it to google video it shrank the video a fair bit, and compressed it so the quality is not nearly as good.

I’m really new to the whole mulitmedia game so I’d appreciate any advice, thanks a lot!

By: zach wise

zach wise — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:34:55 +0000

I just found this! http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/mind/time_lapse_camera/ I'm gonna tear up an old manual digital point and shoot i have and hot wire the shutter release to my intevelometer.

By: zach wise

zach wise — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:28:38 +0000

Looks like there is no ideal point and shoot for time-lapse (sigh).

By: Curtis Clegg

Curtis Clegg — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:17:35 +0000

First thanks to Richard figuring out why I wasn’t able to post before… apparently I was including too many links in my comment, which flagged the entry as possible spam. So from now on I will try to limit myself to no more than two links per post!

After reading some more on the Ricoh cameras, it seems the Ricoh R5 is probably the best point-and-shoot option for doing time lapse photography with intervals of less than 10 seconds. However it does not have manual controls, and some users complain of noise with ISO above 64 or 100 (shouldn’t be a problem when tripod-mounted for time lapse though). Other users complain about battery life, which hopefully woudln’t be as big a problem with the flash and LCD turned off (Ricoh claims you can take sequences up to 380 images).

It looks like Ricoh doesn’t have a U.S. supplier but there are plenty of R5s on eBay.

By: Curtis Clegg

Curtis Clegg — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:55:56 +0000

I like the idea of using a point and shoot to save wear and tear on a DSLR’s mirror assembly. Unofortunately there aren’t too many options out there, but this is what I have found so far.

http://four.fsphost.com/setvak/timelapse/timelapse.html
This guy seems to like the Kodak P880 since it has a decent wide-angle lens and can shoot at intervals as little as 10 seconds, for a maximum of 99 shots. He also likes some of the Ricoh point and shoots since they can use an interval as short as 5 seconds.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=21824686

Some other contenders are the Olympus SP-510uz, the Canon G6 (one minute intervals minimum), the Canon
S80, and Canon S3 IS. FYI the Canon S3 also has a pretty impressive movie mode for a point and shoot.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Olympus/oly_sp510uz.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canong6/page2.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_s80.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_s3is.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons3is/page7.asp

By: Palavra Alada

Palavra Alada — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:05:55 +0000

wow! :) great work, Zack. This tutorial has been reaaaally helpfull.

By: Duncan Kinney

Duncan Kinney — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:32:33 +0000

Allright I have my time lapse movie in final cut pro and it is rendered. How do I zoom and pan in final cut?

What are the tools I use? What do I click on etc etc.

Thanks to anyone who can help me.

By: Jack Rowland

Jack Rowland — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:17:54 +0000

I have always enjoyed doing time-lapse movies and it’s good to see others are using it as well. It’s a very cool form of multimedia and when used for the right stories it can be very informative AND entertaining. Here’s one I did a few years ago:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/25/hockeyvideo/video.shtml

By: David Brooks

David Brooks — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:54:37 +0000

Zach,
yes the D2H has a built in intervalometer called interval timer shooting in the shooting menu and so does the D200…hope that helps
David

By: Matt Zimmerman

Matt Zimmerman — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:33:59 +0000

Great info. I personally like both the drag and the blips. There are two time-lapse sequences I’ve put together on this link:

http://www.union-bulletin.com/video/nightglow.html

It’s a lot of fun to do.
Thanks for the tutorial.