Ok, so I am doing some more Time lapse stuff with my D60 and I can't find a good system for turing it into a video. Does anyone have any software they use to create a video from lets say... 600 photos?

I know one option is QT Pro for $30, but anyone have any other way? I would love to do it in Premiere, but I am not going to spend the time scaling and shortening clips down to 1 or 2 frames...

P.s. Yes I know I can use the Stop Motion feature built into the D60 but it only goes to 100 frames and is not all that quick of a system.

I use QT Pro, but can't you set your still pic import size to 1 frame in your import prefs in Premiere?

It is hard to come up with an easier way to deal with timelapse than treating jpg's as a sequence in Quicktime Pro. Personally i use After Effects to make my shots and then edit them in Final Cut. Don't know what Premier lets you do but you want to import them as a sequence if it let's you so you treat the import as one clip. You can check out some of this on Vimeo Time Sure Flies Timelapse on Vimeo

Another option is Videomach (http://www.gromada.com/videomach.html)

Videomach looks interesting but we are talking about someone who doesn't want to pay $30 extra for QT Pro correct?

How about putting all 600 frames on your timeline, then just speed it up?

Warren, Thats a possibility too... but they would all need to be one video in order to speed them all up.


Daniel, I don't mind paying for QT but I would just prefer to get a free app if possible. I got my shutter release software for free so I thought there might be a matching editing software out there...

I might just go with the QT install...

Premiere does this quite easily.

1. Place all the pictures you want to make a movie out of into a folder on your hard drive
2. Make sure all the stills are numbered sequentially
3. In Premiere select 'file' then 'import'
4. Navigate to the folder that contains the files you want to import
5. Check the 'numbered stills' box at the bottom of the import window
6. Select the first picture
7. Select 'open'

All the stills will be imported as a targa sequence, with each picture one frame in duration.

Scale the video to fit the frame as desired.

Adjust the speed of the video as desired. A 600 frame video at 30 frames per second will naturally be 20 seconds long.

I hope this is what you were trying to do.

Awesome!

Thanks Lloyd!

Great LLoyd, Premier works very similarly to After Effects and Quicktime Pro. As one would expect.