Time Lapse in iMovie 10.0.3

Select the clip and then click on the icon at the top right of the iMovie window that looks like a 'turtle' and the speed control dropdown glif will apear.

Hi

Select the "Information" icon at the right side of the turtle one. You will be able to change the time-lapse speed

Kind regards

Andrea

Select Windows > Movie Properties (or Command J), then click Settings. Viola!

Just discovered these steps after hours of frustration.

I agree with all of you who are irritated by how difficult it is to get to this setting -- if you compare the way iMovie has developed in recent years, it's clear that Apple is removing functionality more than it is making the user experience easier. I saw a Youtube video on how to do this in iMovie 9 and it's incredibly easy. Not only that, but you can get it down to less than 1 second per photo. I'd like to get to 0.1 seconds per photo. Can anyone help me with that, or is it impossible in iMovie 10?

Thanks!

I followed the tips in this thread, today, and managed to make a time-lapse movie from over 3,000 photos at 0.1 second per frame. I'm using iMovie 10.0.9.

I think it went like this:

• Import the photos into iMovie as a new event.
  • Your view should now be of the clips (photos) in that event.
  • Ensure the View... Sort Clips By... shows Date so the clips are ordered in time sequence.
• Create a New Movie using the No Theme style, within that same event.
• In the Clips pane, Select All (cmd-A) to select all the clips.
• Add To Movie (press the "E" key).

  Hopefully you will not see any transitions between clips! That happened to me on my first attempt, in which I dragged the clips into the timeline. Maybe my approach (press "E" to Add To Movie) avoided those automatic transitions. I can't find any magic setting or preference that controls the addition of automatic transitions, but maybe I stumbled across such a setting and don't remember it.

• Click one of the clips in the Timeline pane, then Select All (cmd-A) to select all the clips in the timeline.
• Choose Windows... Movie Properties (cmd-J) and click Settings in the Preview pane.
  • In Photo Placement choose Fit.

    If you don't see Photo Placement click on the crop icon (a rectangle with extended sides).

  • Click the information icon (an "i" with a circle around it).

    You should see a Duration box; erase what is in that box and type 0.1 (for a tenth of a second) or whatever duration you want each photo to consume in your video.

• Now you have the core of a time-lapse movie!
  • Add titles if you want.
  • If you want to add a transition, like a fade to black after the last clip, or a fade between clips, you'll need to select the neighboring clip(s) and extend their duration longer than 0.5 seconds (the default duration of a transition). After the transition is inserted you can fiddle the duration of the neighboring clip(s) to get the effect you want.
• See my timelapse video on SmugMug.

  These photos were captured with a Nikon D300 camera on a tripod and set to Interval mode with a 20s interval. I used iMovie to present them at 0.1s each (200x real time), to add titles, and to add a pause and fade-to-black at the end of each day's photo sequence.

Great guide. Small addition:

You should see a Duration box; erase what is in that box and type 0.1 (for a tenth of a second) or whatever duration you want each photo to consume in your video.

You should press Enter after that, otherwise the change will not be applied.