Convert normal rate video to Time Lapse look

[Vladas Litvinas]

I ran into the same problem. I’ve got a 2 minute video footage of food being prepared, but my client wants to see it in time lapse.

That’s my workaround that yielded very good results, even if a bit time consuming.

1. I exported the video as a *.tga image sequence. Jpeg would also do, but didn’t want to loose too much quality.

2. Next is happening in the mac finder. In the folder with all the images, I selected icon view and arranged all the images so that I would have 12 images in a row. Then manually selected all the columns except the first one and deleted. This way I was left with the IMG_0001; IMG_0012; IMG_0023; IMG_0034….. That’s my timelapse image sequence.:)

3. Premiere pro wouldn’t import them as a sequence though, cause they’re not sequentially numbered. That’s where after effects import command came in helpful, it allows you to force alphabetical order, which was what I needed to play the new image sequence properly.
Then exported the image sequence from after effects again. This way I could import the timelapse into premiere pro!
*A simple file renaming program would be much more efficient here, but just didn’t have time to look for one on the web.

All the process of converting a 2min vid(HDSLR, fullHD) to a 10sec timelapse took me about 10min, including the rendering times.Hopefully this helps if you need a quick workaround.

[Alan Johnston]

Guys – I had a similar requirement to make a very quick time lapse type video from a source 2 minute clip. All I did was 2 simple steps:

1. apply the AE posterise time effect and set the frame rate down to 1

2. on the layer apply time > time stretch > stretch factor 5%

This gave me a 6 second time lapse of the original 2 minute clip.

May not be “real” time lapse but it gives a pretty good result.

Alan

[Stephen Curry]

thanks Alan

that maybe what we’ve been looking for…I havent tried it yet though…

thanks for this info thou

Steph

[Mark Buckland]

Will this work?

https://www.creativetechs.com/iq/create_timelapse_videos_with_imovie_hd_6.html

[Stephen Curry]

Yea looks like that software does exactly what Im asking for…although I dont own a Mac.

not sure if I understand their explanation on their site….do they have the camera attached to their laptop and then the software only allows an image to be recorded at XX frame rate as they go along for 24hrs or did they film all night and day and THEN the software just grabbed every 30th frame from the ginormous video file?

[John Crockett]

I’m sorry, I can no longer sit still and read these incredibly unhelpful posts without replying.

Yes I’m taking it personally because I need the exact thing that is being requested in this thread, so I am incredibly frustrated by replies like this one.

I ALREADY HAVE a video…that I shot with a DIGITAL video camera (Waste of good media???!?!? wtf?!?!? are you talking about the re-arranged electrons on the hard drive inside my cam?!?!?!).

Now…what I need is to EXTRACT every hundredth frame from the video that I have ALREADY SHOT, to create a shorter video, showing a process that took several hours (in “real” time), in about 30 seconds.

Advice such as, “You used the wrong kind of camera. You should buy the right kind of camera and they’re really cheap on the internet” is UTTERLY, RIDICULOUSLY – – – U S E L E S S – – – to me (and to the poster who started this thread). Pleas do not offer such advice.

Just in case I have not been completely clear: I have a video that is too long and too slow. I want to use this video as the basis from which I create a new video that shows the same scene (recorded subject) but is only 30 seconds from beginning to end.

Here’s my final suggestion: If you have read my message and you do not understand what I am asking for …or… if you think I’ve done something wrong and you want to tell me how to do it right…DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have I been clear enough?

For those who find this message offensive and condescending, but do not have a cogent answer to my question… tap your mouse and move on.

For those who find this message funny and have an answer that might be helpful to me…THANK YOU!!!!!

[Stephen Curry]

looks like somebody may have read my post….maybe this will help me and others as well

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/create-a-simple-stop-motion-style-for-your-video-clips/

[John Crockett]

I know this is technically an After Effects forum, but I found an answer that works…HandyAVI.

A 10-day free trial can be downloaded from https://www.azcendant.com.

It only works with AVIs, but conversion from one format to another is not very difficult. I had to convert the .mpg that my camera records to AVI, and then for kicks I converted my time-lapse AVI back to .mpg. Worked like a charm.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

[Dmitry Pavlovsky]

I signed up for this forum just so that I can provide my findings on this issue…
Right off the bat, let me just state that I’m using Sony Vegas 10 and not Adobe After Effects. BUT, I was having a similar issue and stumbled on this forum and saw all the frustration. Eventually I did locate a solution specifically for Sony Vegas. I will post it below and the link to the site. Don’t know much about Adobe After Effects, but maybe there are some similarities, and this may help:

With the Event Velocity envelope you have full control over the playback rate of your video and you can create great effects with it.

Right-click the first event and choose Insert/Remove Envelope | Velocity from the pop-up menu. A green line appears through the middle of the event. If you’re familiar with other envelope lines (like Volume or Composite Level), you’ll be familiar with the tools related to the velocity envelope too. If you don’t have experience with envelope tools in Vegas Pro software, don’t sweat it; they’re easy to learn.

Notice that the envelope line has a point at the beginning. Drag that point all the way to the top of the event. As you do, a ToolTip indicates the new velocity of the event. You also see that indentations begin to appear the faster you make the video. With the Event Velocity envelope, you can speed the video up 300%. (If you also change the event’s playback rate to 4.0, meaning 400%, you can set the actual playback rate to 1,200% which is the playback rate of four times faster sped up by the 300% increase in speed caused by the event velocity envelope.)

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/controlling_velocity_in_vegas_pro

[Aldo Porretta]

Hi all, Sorry for my English, my mother tongue is Italian and translate with google.
I have read all your post because I too have had the same requirement.
I solved with Adobe premiere, but I think it also goes by other editing programs.
My solution was quite logical because if you freeze a frame every 25 seconds (25 fps PAL system) I get a vision of itself for a second.
It would be very boring to see a 2-minute video in this way and I would see only 120 frames in 2 minutes (1×120).
If I multiply x 25 times the running time I always get my 120 frame but in a time of 4.8 seconds.
In doing so we have a time lapse effect as if capturing 1 frame per second.
Method with Adobe Premier Pro with PAL video at 25 fps:
1) video effect “posterize time” = 1
2) video effect “speed / duration” 2500% (25×100)
Of course no need to say, the two efects on the same video clip.
if you use the NTSC system moltipilatore factor is 30 (30fps).
Let me clarify that this is fine if we have a video of 30-60 minutes,
but if you have to make a video as long as 6-10 hours is recommended that a machine with recovery at time interval,otherwise we would have a waste of support for recording.
I hope I have been of help to someone or everyone.
Regards Aldo.