16th March 2008

How To Make A Time-Lapse Video With Your Digital Video Camera

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Pull out the best from your DV camera can mean to draw was really cool stuff. They must only from the manual and a bit of freshness to find the things you want to do with your digital video camera and software installation.

We have all seen in a film or a television programme, the exchange of very cool, where they speed up the time to collect and a long segment of time and condense in a very short period of video. My very privileged example of this technique is an arty film a few years ago was called Koyaanisqatsi. (Overview trailer) in this film, they have some very interesting segments in which they do not lapse time to show the effects of driving on a bridge, flowers, the clouds to beat, and so on. Another example: a wealth of information TV stations now have a camera captures the weather of the day and then down process to a clip of 20 seconds to show the clouds and the time of the race on the screen.

Well, this technique is not only an instrument in the hands of the developers or the major TV channels. You can do it with your digital video camera machines. I go two ways that you can get to this effect, and some results for cooling your next video. It’s worth it, to play, to the correct settings to find the best dramatic effect.

Technique number one is the use of the camera itself to the fact that the deadlines for registration for you. Almost all DV cameras have the option of an interval recording. What that means, in short, it is that you say, in the camera, how long you want to save, and how much time between shots, and she goes into autopilot for so long that the battery or tape Is empty. That is what these cameras do troubleshooter, they are characterized by a few seconds of movement all 30-60 seconds, the sight of the totality of transport in the memory over time.

Well, if you want to record some time in your digital video camera, you have to switch to your menu and find cameras recording interval (or in my case Int Rec, as I get a Sony PD 150 for my camera) If you choose this option, you decide , for the duration of the interval between the shots that you want and how much time to look at each time when you try to catch something that may from time to time arise, and in the many not happen quickly, you want the interval, about a minute and the time as short as possible on your camera. An example would be the case if you want a day in the life of a flower or the clouds in the sky slips. Suppose, however, that you want to record an event that lots of action occurs in a much shorter time. Then do you want to shorten the time between the registry and increase the duration of the individual data sets. So, in this case, you can use every 15-30 seconds, and up to 2-3 seconds each video.

I have used this technique to record an afternoon of work done by a team of people from my room house, the redesign of the project. The result was a sudden increase in activity as workers racy hither and yon nailing boards used to transport equipment and construction of the wall. I have in my collection of photographs of the project. (Hey, I had to live in the framework of the project, so I can very well have a great folder, for posterity!)

For example, suppose you have one of the largest software packages for video editing on your computer to work with your digital camcorder. Now you can do that by saying how post in the economy. They can be any length of the video clips, you can (subject to the limitations of your band in length) and then import into your program output.

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I use Adobe Premiere Pro to publish my work, but I have also used Avid DV Express or Final Cut Pro and others in the world is not linear. These are all great programs and the products are very powerful, can be very professional looking videos. You do not have these products to make your own videos, but if you seriously, the digital video output, it might be a good idea to take a look at the options.

I mean gross digitize videos on stage, I make time lapse on my computer (large hard disk, video devours’s GB of storage), then import clip in my time. Chronology Of th3e Then you can use the clip with the right mouse button. From there you can return a menu of options, depending on the software you use. Select the “duration”, “Speed”, or something like that. Change the speed of the clip so that the time can significantly accelerate. If you have an hour in the video clip, and you want him to reduce 2 -5 minutes, then you need to change the speed of the clip for 3 or 4 thousand percent of the normal value. This is from your software to the clip, with the speed and may take some time, top-process depending on the speed of the computer.

Once you have the video clip for the new speed you want to play, to see whether the film throughout stream, or if you want to adjust the speed to improve. Sometimes you might want to use your video gross shorten and the adaptation of the slightly slower speed with the objective of a smooth settlement of the action. Once you have the clip to the new speed, you can now cut and splices as you like with the action accelerates intact. There are some things you have saved, the need for a change in the speed of light, take for example a digital video your children sports. Doubling or tripling the speed of the clip and show, and this can be done on the ground roll.

You can also use these techniques for catching the growth of a flower or a plant in the coming days or weeks. Simply camera you exactly the same place at the same time every day, and an interval of every day, however long you want to document. Maybe you get the seedling is breaking the ground and follow while in a plant cultivated.

Another interesting idea is to make the path of the moon through the night sky. Install the camera on a tripod, in a place that can see the Moon orbit for several hours. Set the device to store, and the gap in the moon on one side to the picture that by the picture that happens in the night. It may take a few attempts to secure the right to exhibit and care and the right to host interval. Is very likely that you will not want to set the interval for as long as possible, and the record for the shortest time, but you can make a first attempt, the test to see what works.

I can not emphasize enough that with your DV camera can be a lot of fun and you can achieve some results cool. Test and test. You may find the creation of some very creative digital video data with the rest of the world.

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