Timelapses?

[Bodeau.]

This may be a stupid question but, How do you make timelapses, how can you do it with a regular camera?

 

[EH_DUBS]

...film something for a long time...then speed it up...

i know thats blatently obvious but i didnt really know what you wanted me to say hah but hopefully that helped...

if you want a super long timelapse you can use interval recordings so you can set it to record 2 seconds every minute or something. not all cameras have that option though.

 

[CS_Films]

what editing software are you using?

 

[KarmaInitiative]

how do you do the timelapse where the cam slowly turns, and when you speed it up its turning

 

[hellomynameisjef]

turn the camera a fraction like a minute until you turn a full circle and just speed it up?

 

[396222687862]

eh, not usually. its mostly digital editing, zooming in and panning on a shot digitally, in your editing program.

 

[leckett1]

He's right. In premiere you can do 'tweens' like in flash through the effect manager. you would scale the image in slightly, start it off on one side and pan it to the other through keyframes. if you moved the camera slightly every minute it would be choppy

 

[EH_DUBS]

you could do what people are saying with keyframes.

or there are motorized pan heads and such

 

[.SteezusChrist.]

FUCKING N00B GET AN HD CAMERA

 

[mnjib]

tehehehe who would do it with an SLR any way....

Time Lapse test from bill h on Vimeo.

oh I do lol I really need to go shoot more maybe tonight i will.

 

[mnjib]

oh lame thats not the good one i will upload it later on.

 

[KarmaInitiative]

im talking about when the camera turns alot, you can only pan so much, and you lose res. I guess motorized pan heads is the answer

 

[Bodeau.]

Adobe Premier Elements 4.0, but i thought timelapses took more like interval shots not just a super long shot...?

 

[Jwenz]

It really on depends on what you are filming. If you are filming something really long. Like day to night to day you will want to use a dslr i think. This allows for thousands of pictures on relatively small intervals. They do this in movies such as RealTime...Then if you are filming something short and plan on speeding it up, typically a video camera works just fine. Some video cameras have interval recording which can be good for slow moving clouds and such. Then in editing you speed it up super fast. Hope that helps

 

[narwhal]

iMovie has a option when uploading to choose a timelapse import. It imports something like every 6 or 10 frames.

 

[Bodeau.]

Thanks, this does help. how exactly would you find out if you can interval record on your camera?

 

[mnjib]

from what i know only the high end stuff has the interval record.

 

[keepon_trucking]

the best way to do it is with a P2
if you don't have 7 grand lying around to spend on a camera, you can find some HDV and DV cameras that do interval recording, but because they record onto a tape you can't set them to capture just one frame at a time (its like 15 frames or something)...depending on what you're 'TLing' it might look really choppy
the cheapest way to make it look professional is like this:http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/create_timelapse_videos_with_imovie_hd_6.html
its essentially a poor man's P2...the only drawback is that you have to have your laptop with you. you may also run into issues if you can't turn off the powersave function on your camera
digi SLRs are great too....I'd look at the Canon 5D Mark II because it shoots stills and 1080p video
to do pans you can get motorized heads for a couple g's....if you're very precise you can turn the camera manually or you can do it later in your editing software