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cadman70454
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February 3, 2017
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how to make a timelapse video

  • February 3, 2017
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I purchased Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements to make timelapse videos.  I see nothing in the pdf manuals about making a timelapse. Did I buy the wrong software?

Lowell McCormick

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    LariosoDog
    Inspiring
    February 3, 2017

    In PRE15 you can use time remapping tool to make a fast motion of a clip, but have not tried it myself.

    But I prefer to do in like making stills, in intervals that I put on timeline, and set duration to 2-3 frames or so.

    I do this in camera, or if camera does not have interval setting I use external remote that do it for me.

    I like doing AEB seqyences even, to make HDR of some of it - but then only use normal exposure ones for time-lapse.

    Unless camera allow to make time-lapse video in camera.

    Excuse me if kicking in open doors and you know this already.

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      Steve Grisetti
      Legend
      February 3, 2017

      LDog is right. How you do it depends on what you're using as your source media.

      If you're working from still photos, you do it one way. If you're working from video, Time Remapping or even Time Stretch will work.

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        Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        February 3, 2017

        Thanks for the replies guys.  I have an intervalometer hooked to my Canon 50D.  I took a photo every 5 seconds of the setting Moon & Venus and have 1700 images, numbered sequentially.  The image size needs to be reduced to make a timelapse from the photos and I figured out how to do that in a couple of steps.  Now I'm trying to figure out how to put them in a timelapse.  I can do this with my Gopro Studio software but wanted to try it with more robust software like the Photoshop/Elements package.

        Lowell McCormick


        cadman70454 wrote:

        .... Now I'm trying to figure out how to put them in a timelapse. ....

        Lowell McCormick

        Lowell,

        It has been a long while since I tried this so I may have forgotten some details.  Now I have a newer camera that does the time lapse processing in the camera.  The needed trick is to set the "Still Image Default Duration" in the Edit > Preferences > General tab.

        You start by opening a new project and setting the "Project Settings" where you want and checking the Force Settings box.  You probably want "AVCHD 1080p60".

        Then you set the Default Duration.   Math and memory get me in trouble here.  But, you have to figure out how long you want your time lapse to play and how many shots you have.  The you figure out the duration. 

        Once the project and default duration are set, you bring all your images in at once.  Hopefully the file names are numerical so that the order remains.  If not, bring them in in batches or rename them somehow. 

        Unfortunately there is no way to change the Default Duration after the project is started.  If you don't like what you see, abandon the project and start a new one with a different duration.

        One warning is that the computer has to do a lot of processing for this to work.  You need a strong one!

        Good luck, I hope this helps.

        Bill

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