Timelapses

[scott faulknor]

I have done time lapses before, but I always do a video one. I have seen people do a photo timlaspe and put it together when the edit. What is a better way to do it? or does it matter? If I do a photo time lapse, how many seconds would you recommend between each shot? I think I did 5 seconds before, but when I went to edit I think it was to long and I couldn't figure out how to get them all to be shorter.

 

[Styxie]

Photo is always better. Depends completely on what you're shooting and the look you want, how fast playback will be, etc.

 

[scott faulknor]

Photo is always better. Depends completely on what you're shooting and the look you want, how fast playback will be, etc.

Thanks, Why is the photo better? I haven't done many time lapses but want to do more

 

[Styxie]

Thanks, Why is the photo better? I haven't done many time lapses but want to do more

More flexibility in editing and higher quality. If you've got a camera that does above 35 megapixels, you can crop the footage to 8K! 8.3 megapixels for 4K

 

[Stike96]

I have done time lapses before, but I always do a video one. I have seen people do a photo timlaspe and put it together when the edit. What is a better way to do it? or does it matter? If I do a photo time lapse, how many seconds would you recommend between each shot? I think I did 5 seconds before, but when I went to edit I think it was to long and I couldn't figure out how to get them all to be shorter.

I'd also add that you could do them for longer and it'll use less battery life. If you want the video to be shorter in post you could put them into a subsequence and then speed the entire thing up. If you know in advance just make the interval between pics longer.

 

[nad]

Photo is better but a lot more time consuming.
You can take the pictures in RAW, then batch editing them, convert them to JPEG and then put them into the video editing software.
Especially the first few times it might not be as easy and might take you quite some time to make it work.

First start with only JPEG files, RAWs can come later.

I made three video that will help you to accomplish it.
"How To Make Timelapse Videos | Video DSLR Tutorial" teaches the basics on how to make timelapse with taking pictures
"How to edit Timelapse Videos in Lightroom and Premiere Pro" teaches every step of editing
"Canon 80D - 4k Timelapse Video" is a whole bunch of timelapse clips, all made with RAW images

 

[Styxie]

Photo is better but a lot more time consuming.
You can take the pictures in RAW, then batch editing them, convert them to JPEG and then put them into the video editing software.
Especially the first few times it might not be as easy and might take you quite some time to make it work.

First start with only JPEG files, RAWs can come later.

I made three video that will help you to accomplish it.
"How To Make Timelapse Videos | Video DSLR Tutorial" teaches the basics on how to make timelapse with taking pictures
"How to edit Timelapse Videos in Lightroom and Premiere Pro" teaches every step of editing
"Canon 80D - 4k Timelapse Video" is a whole bunch of timelapse clips, all made with RAW images

Honestly not that much longer though, the few timelapses i've done it's added maybe a couple minutes to my post process.

 

[scott faulknor]

Photo is better but a lot more time consuming.
You can take the pictures in RAW, then batch editing them, convert them to JPEG and then put them into the video editing software.
Especially the first few times it might not be as easy and might take you quite some time to make it work.

First start with only JPEG files, RAWs can come later.

I made three video that will help you to accomplish it.
"How To Make Timelapse Videos | Video DSLR Tutorial" teaches the basics on how to make timelapse with taking pictures
"How to edit Timelapse Videos in Lightroom and Premiere Pro" teaches every step of editing
"Canon 80D - 4k Timelapse Video" is a whole bunch of timelapse clips, all made with RAW images

Thanks. Im going to try it again. I tried the photos but count figure out how to edit them/shorten the time on the photos. How many seconds should you be shooting each photo?

 

[DougHewsonYT]

I think people usually drop the image time to as low as 1 frame per image. You can experiment with what works best by varying the duration of each picture.

 

[The NotARubicon!]

We’ve done side by side comparisons on two cameras, a GoPro and a Canon DSLR of ‘photo’ and video time lapses.. On both cameras we did a ‘photo’ timelapse and a ‘video’ time lapse.
After editing and color correction (photo version in Photoshop and video version in Final Cut), there was no major difference in the quality of the two on either camera - and when considering that it took 4 minutes to edit the video version and over an hour to do the same thing on the photo version, we’ve decided to use the ‘video’ format for our time lapses...