Time Lapse Arbor Construction

[MarkBarbieri]

My wife shot several thousand pictures in just a few days. She was having an arbor built in the backyard and wanted to record the construction. She set up the camera on a tripod each morning and attached a timer remote to it. I took the photos she shot and combined it into a 5 minute video clip showing the construction of our arbor.

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[janetg]

that's pretty cool - i did that once while i was planting a flower bed - just because i could. what did you use to make the video part?

[arcproducts]

Mark - that is TOO cool ...... never would have thought of the automatic, manual issue but that makes sense. Just like Janet asked, what software did you use to join them all?

[MarkBarbieri]

I wrote a bit more about the concept on my photo blog here.

To combine the photos into a video I used Sony Vegas. It is a video editing package. It allows the inclusion of photos in the video (along with panning and zooming effects). I suspect that just about any video editing software would work.

To make it work, I first adjusted the default preference for how long a picture would be shown in the video. I think the default in Vegas was 5 seconds. That would have resulted in a day long video. I changed it to something like 0.03 seconds so that I'd get roughly 30 pictures for every 1 second of video. Because my wife shot the pictures at 1 for every 10 seconds, you are watching 300 seconds of real time activity for every second of video.

[Coelus]

The Benny Hill music keeps running through my head.

[Robin Binder]

Originally Posted by Coelus

The Benny Hill music keeps running through my head.

exactly. Excellent.

[aerosolcheese]

That is pretty cool... a co-worker and I just did a time-lapse for the George R. Brown... It was my first time... we mounted two cameras in ceiling and got a shot a minute for four days while they moved the windpower show in last week... check it out here.