20 hrs of footage down to 30 seconds of Time lapse?

[Mike Cohen]

Import your raw video into Media Encoder and export as a Sequence to whatever image format you want. You can go as low as 1 frame per second. Then import the frames into Premiere and add to a sequence at whatever duration you like. You can then make a nested sequence if you want to adjust the speed.
Note when you try to drag the frames to a sequence premiere may do it in numerical order(1,10,11,12…2,20,21…), not actual order (1,2,3,4,5…). you may want to rename the files so they are 000000, 000001…etc. Google ‘bulk rename utility” for a handy app I use a lot.

This method avoids having to import the raw footage into Premiere, conform, index, render, export, reimport – you will need a lot of coffee.

Mike Cohen

[Jim Toscano]

If I wanted to recrop or adjust some of the footage, at what point would I do that?

[Jim Toscano]

I used your advice, seems to be working great. One problem. Each still is 3 mbs. No biggie except that when I import the images into a project, the project becomes huge and at a point it won’t accept any more images, so u have about 4 projects open.

Is there a way to combine all the projects of nested footage?

[Jim Toscano]

I used your advice, seems to be working great. One problem. Each still is 3 mbs. No biggie except that when I import the images into a project, the project becomes huge and at a point it won’t accept any more images, so u have about 4 projects open.

Is there a way to combine all the projects of nested footage?