Timelapses

The NotARubicon! said:
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...
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Yes, unless you edit the RAW images there might not be as much of a difference. Especially under good light.
 
The NotARubicon! said:
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...
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I don't think you set up or edited the camera correctly then to be honest, a GoPro vs a proper DSLR should be like potatoes to spaceships. How on earth did it take you so long to edit it?!
 
It wasnt a gopro vs a DSLR..
It was a GoPro JPG timelapse vs a GoPro video timelapse
And
A DSLR JPG timelapse vs a DSLR video timelapse

The result on both is that the JPG (not RAW) was not significantly better than the video timelapse on the same camera - certainly not worth the extra time and hassle to string together the JPGs vs the virtually already completed video timelapse.
And yes, the DSLR was better than the gopro - but we already knew that, and this was not the reason for the tests..
So for us, for our purposes, on our videos, we choose the simpler/faster video method over the image-method for timelapses..
 
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