Doing a time lapse?

[1-pippin]

hey im just starting to do time lapse's with my camera, ive done a couple with clouds and stuff using the settings on the camera and it works fine, but if you want to get something like a cars going by would you just shoot it normal then fast forward in editing?

 

[dozerr]

or you can fast forward real time

 

[Nicholas.]

you gotzta film shit fo real long then fast it up son. so it dont take so long to watch.

 

[bigwhite.steeze]

how hard is it to do a timelapse....turn on your camera and your good to go

 

[EVAN.F]

some cameras have settings where it can film for a second every whatever amount of time up to 10min so u can save space and batteries. that would be for flowers, or other incredibly slow things, traffic you would probably just film normally than speed it up to however fast u want

 

[rocMALONEYphotos]

i have a few time lapse in my tricktape, the longest one was prolly 10mins, then i changed the speed to 5000X the normal speed, and it turned into like a 20 second clip

 

[van_ski]

how do you do time lapses where the camera is moving , is that just adding a a video effect(in the editing program) or somthing

 

[mcnutty]

post a video of of these, i've seen it done as an editing effect, but i'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. never done anything but a normal time lapse myself.

 

[TylerS]

I think i know what you mean. Landis Tanaka had one in Neon when he was spinning around in the room with the camera pointing at his face...

 

[Geoff.]

they probably zoomed in in post and then moved it around, if that makes sense.

 

[scientist]

I think he means like the camera moves slowly, like in Skiporn on the rainforest place. Im sure that is just the "zoom in left" "zoom out left" ect featres. theres a bunch that you can use like toggle and stuff with different programs.

 

[Jwenz]

in a moving time lapse some people actually sit there and slowly move the camera in a pan, others just zoom in and move left and right with motion effects

 

[van_ski]

cool thanks

 

[connoroh]

many of those moving ones are actually mechanisms that are attached to the camera. like, for a 360 degree pan lapse you could do something as simple as attach your camera to an egg timer and let it run out. as for zooms i can only feel that it is using motion zooms in post, as someone else said.

 

[honeydip]

for the crazy time lapses that pan, i just do it in the editing program.