time-lapse still photos to IMovie???

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time-lapse still photos to IMovie???

Greetings.

I have a Nikon D2x that will shoot time lapse photography. I tried a test of 30 images (one second of video). So I have a folder of JPG images which I then resized to 640x480 at 72dpi.

At first I tried to import these stills into IM just by dragging and dropping my pictures into the clips window to the right of the viewer. It took a while for these to "render" but when they finished, I placed a few of the images in the time line.

I pressed play, thinking that each photo would show for 1/30th of a second, but what happened instead, stayed on the first photo, did a pan out, and then went to the next photo.

My question, (and maybe IMovie is the wrong app for this) is how do you take a sequence of still photos and have them play each for 1/30 or 1/24 of a second so that I can see the out come of my time lapse photography?

Thank you for your help.

Jonathan

PM G5 1.8 4 gb dram, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 7, 2006 1:47 PM

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Answer 1

SDIllini

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Nov 7, 2006 4:30 PM in response to Jonathan Levin2

Jonathan:

Does this help?

Create time-lapse iMovies
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/07/timelapsemov/index.php

Sue

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Nov 7, 2006 4:32 PM in response to Jonathan Levin2

how do you take a sequence of still photos and have them play each for 1/30 or 1/24 of a second so that I can see the out come of my time lapse photography?

The easiest is to use QuickTime Pro ($30, from Apple). It lets you import a series of images to a movie, creating just what you want. You can tell it to import the images at 30 frames per second or any duration you want.

It can be done in iMovie too, but there are some hurdles. One is that iMovie lets us import a photo with a duration no shorter than 3 frames per second (shown as 0:00:03).

But there is a back door. See this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3210397

I pressed play, thinking that each photo would show for 1/30th of a second, but what happened instead, stayed on the first photo, did a pan out, and then went to the next photo.

That happened because the Ken Burns settings in the Photo Settings window were set to zoom in. Turn off the Ken Burns checkbox and import the image as a still instead of an animated video clip.

Karl

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