Time lapse experiment
I made this!
quickly thrown together collection of clips to test time lapse using CHDK on a canon powershot A720
images stuck together in Virtualdub
Anyone recomend a free video editor to put videos togther with fade effects etc between clips rather than just a cut?
Should be available in HD
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wjh31, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 16:57,
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I love time lapse photography,
I was looking up at the sky a few nights ago trying to see shooting stars. It was too cloudy. It's surprising how fast clouds move across the sky, I only noticed this as I was staring up for ages.
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 17:10,
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The testing is because i plan to take it to france soon
on a two week holiday in an old farm house in the middle of nowhere, im hoping to try out alot of things, the day, the night, stars sunset, the drive down etc into time lapse stuff. Ive just got an ac adaptor for the camera so its only limited by what can fit on the card in one go, which for 1600x1200 frames is probably 6000+ frames.
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wjh31, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 17:27,
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The Gimp may do it (but I'm not sure)
put the photos in as layers and click "video" "encode" "masterencoder"
let us know if it works!
And I like how the video keeps correct exposure and colours throughout, I find my camera cant do this even for simple multi-photo panoramics
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CanonCaliber A big bore, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 17:48,
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i just left it on auto with an intervalometer script
with multi photo panoramics, you dont really want the correct exposure for each part of the image, you need to find the single exposure setting that works best over it all and lock it to that in manual, else the final image has different parts at different expsure levels, if the software is good it can compensate for this and simply change the exposure of them all to some intermediate 'correct' value, or do some psuedo hdr stuff, else you will end up with a blotchy image, look up. Autopano pro forums has a small but helpful community for panos.
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wjh31, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 18:13,
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Thanks, I locked the exposure but didn't switch off colour correction, I'll know better next time
This might help your problem, theres some free HD editors incl windows movie maker(tho I think you need the Vista version for HD)
I use Sony Vegas pro for video work (@£90)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_editing_software
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CanonCaliber A big bore, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 18:30,
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