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Time Lapse photography

Hi,

I have taken over a thousand photos using a intervalometer with a Canon G10 and want to edit them into a time lapse movie using FCP 7, does anyone know a quick and simple way to get the stills onto the timelime in one go ?

Thanks Paul

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 2 x 2.26 HGz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 16GB 1066 MHz DDR3

Posted on Aug 18, 2009 12:23 PM

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Aug 19, 2009 8:55 AM in response to hauerdie

hauerdie wrote:
But its also easy in FCP, i use it very often. Just set the still image duration to one frame (default is 1 sec). The images are normaly seq. numbered, just put them in a folder and import the folder, FCP will treat the folder as a sequence in the timeline.


True, and thanks for the contribution to the thread. Personally, I prefer to use Motion or QT as the first step in converting large groups of still images for the convenience and security of creating a movie that is self contained media. FCP, of course, can be used as you describe and then used to export the new media.

bogiesan

Aug 21, 2009 7:04 AM in response to Studio X

Studio X wrote:
FCP can be used but is horribly inefficient at it. Large numbers of stills in FCP can bring underpowered systems to their knees very quickly.
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Yar, matey.
Part of the question that was not covered: what's the pixel dimension of these still images? If they're way big, like 3k, FCP is going to be useless after processing/scaling about 20 of them down to video size.

bogiesan

Time Lapse photography

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