Another method of assembling a time-lapse sequence is to use Adobe Photoshop. For an easy workflow, you need to have Photoshop CS6 or newer. How do you refine the duration and frame rate? In this video, author Richard Harrington walks you through how to a
- Now that we've got the clip inside our Photoshop document, we need to do a little bit of additional processing. First off, realize that the files aren't actually embedded. This is just a link. When I save this Photoshop document, it's basically a set of instructions pointing to the folder where all the other images are. As such, I generally find it a good idea to save the Photoshop document near the same location as the original files. I'm going to choose file save as.
Let's store this in the same folder. We'll call this one VOF, for value of fire, one. I'll save this as a Photoshop document. When I click okay, the Photoshop file is written to disk. It doesn't actually contain anything, however, It just simply references these other files that are on the disk. One of the things you might want to control is the frame rate of your material. For example, we could adjust the timeline frame rate here to control what happens with the actual rendered file.
For this, I'll go to set time line frame rate. You can choose different pop-up lists. For example, I'm going to go with 23.976, for 24 P, which works quite well on the web. I'm going to click okay. You might notice that things changed down here in the timeline, but the duration didn't actually change. As such, you might want to select the video layer and then choose layer, video layers, and assign the frame rate. I'll go to interpret footage.
In this case, since we loaded the still frames in, I need to tell Photoshop how to handle those. I'm going to set this to also 23.976. Now, the two frame rates match. This gives us the ability to work with the material. We could adjust this and make things shorter or longer, but what's important here is that the two items match. Now that the sequence timeline is set to 23.976, and the footage is set to the same frame rate, I actually have three seconds worth of material.
That's because we imported 72 frames. If you're doing a real time lapse sequence, you'd likely import more frames than this. But remember, we reduced the amount of frames you had to download in order to follow along. Now that we've got the frame rates to match up, we're ready to move on to sizing the content.
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8/15/2017- What is time-lapse photography?
- Choosing a frame size and frame rate
- Using an internal or external intervalometer
- Selecting a memory card
- Shooting in JPEG, RAW, or MOV formats
- Tracking the sun's position
- Deciding how long to shoot
- Using a slider
- Shooting time lapse on a smartphone or tablet
- Removing noise and spots with Camera Raw
- Refining the duration and frame rate with Photoshop
- Blending frames in After Effects
- Creating variable speed effects in Premiere Pro
- Exporting your sequence from Final Cut Pro
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome30s
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Using the exercise files2m 10s
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1. What Is Time-Lapse Photography?
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The end product1m 9s
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2. Technical Essentials
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3. Equipment: What You'll Need and What You Might Want
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Weather gear1m 6s
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Memory card selection2m 8s
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4. Choosing a Shooting Format
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5. A Better Timeline Panel
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How long should you shoot?1m 10s
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Tracking the sun's position2m 50s
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Working the scene2m 48s
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6. The Exposure Triangle in Depth
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7. Using a Slider
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Why shoot an HDR panorama?2m 37s
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Setting up for the shot3m 43s
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Shooting the source images3m 27s
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8. Shooting Time-Lapse Video on a Smartphone or Tablet
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Stabilizing the phone2m 52s
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Using Lapse It1m 26s
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Using iStopMotion for iPad2m 18s
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9. Managing Data from a Time-Lapse Shoot
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Using a card wallet3m 9s
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Choosing a working drive3m 18s
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Transferring data5m 41s
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10. Organizing the Images for Post
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Using stacks in Adobe Bridge3m 54s
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11. Developing the Images for Post
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12. Assembling a Time-Lapse Movie with Adobe Photoshop
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13. Assembling a Time-lapse Movie with Adobe After Effects
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14. Assembling a Time-Lapse Movie with Adobe Premiere Pro
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15. Assembling a Time-Lapse Movie with Apple Final Cut Pro X
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Conclusion
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Goodbye1m 4s
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