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  Time-lapse SDX-900-best way?

  Posted by Todd Gillespie on January 12, 2006 at 7:41 pm

  Hi All,
  I’m trying to figure out the best way to try to tape some time-lapse footage with an Panasonic SDX900?
  I haven’t used this feature on the camera, but I don’t have the RAM option either (next year’s budget)
  I believe the camera can tape 10-20secs at a time interval that you can set. But what I’m wondering about is how you work with it in post?
  Even if you recorded time-lapse footage with this feature, then you would still need to spend a lot of time pulling out individual frames and lining them up?
  I thought about just rolling off a couple of hours of footage (in realtime), then compressing it down…
  Any thoughts?

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production

  David Jones replied 20 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  David Jones

  January 13, 2006 at 2:12 pm

  I use a little program called BTV Pro for doing things like time lapse.
  You can run it from a laptop connected to the camera, or record the footage to tape and then transfer later.
  You can taylor capture options to fit the type of time lapse you are doing.

  I have found that 1 frame per second gives a nice look.

  Good Luck!

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