Best method to slow down time lapse sequence

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Best method to slow down time lapse sequence

I have a sequence of still photos (600) and when I import them into Motion and check the image sequence box I get each image as a frame in my project. Ok all good there, but now I want the whole sequence to playback slower.

If I just change the media frame rate to something slower it plays slower but now each still is more than a frame and the playback is not as smooth.

The other option is to change the file timing and then process with optical flow (taking about 2 hours to process).

Anyone have some advice on getting good results.

TonyTony

Posted on Aug 2, 2007 7:22 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 2, 2007 7:25 AM in response to The TonyTony

Hi,

i ws going to suggest outputing the original sequence as a quicktime movie, then exporting that in and running the optical flow on it.

Is that what you said already?

adam

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Aug 2, 2007 7:47 AM in response to Adam Scoffield

At this point I'm just running the optical flow on the imported image sequence. Instead of changing the frame rate in the media tab I changed the "clip's" playback speed in the properties tab>timing, then chose optical flow in the frame blending pulldown.

I had/have a suspicion that optical flow may do nothing in this case because it is looking at a still image sequence but maybe Motion is already treating the sequence as a set of frames. After all a video clip is just a set of frames.

TonyTony

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