time Lapse edit in FCP

[Everett Bowes]

what do you mean “remove what’s not really relevant”?

I prefer to do time lapse in After Effects. For some reason I feel it gives a cleaner, softer image. Now, that was something I found years ago, and I haven’t tried doing it in FCS ever since. So, someone else might want to chime in and correct that advice if they say FCS can give a really nice result.

If I were doing it in AE I would put all of the clips in one composition, lined up in the timeline back to back. I would not apple the time remapping to each of the clips, though.

Instead I would bring that composition (containing all of the individual clips) into a new composition, and apply the time remapping to that “nested sequence” (using the Final Cut Pro term).

If I were going to do this exclusively in FCS I would still consider doing it this way. Maybe export your entire movie to a QuickTime file, or a QuickTime reference file. Then, import that clip, and do your time remapping to that clip.

Hope that helps!

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[David Bogie]

You’re going to need to define your needs more precisely. “Timelapse” is a concept that remains terribly misunderstood.
What you’re talking about seems to be simple temporal compression. SmoothCam does that remarkably well but whatever you do, it’s going to take a very long time to accomplish.

Forty, 40-minute tapes? Really? that’s 1600 minutes of footage, almost 3 million frames, or 26 freakin’ hours. Who is going to be viewing the material? What’s the visual subject? What does the playback look like in terms of time? If you compress that to, say, 10 minutes, you’re keeping only one frame out of every 200 exposed.

bogiesan

[Sitara Menon]

Basically we filmed a set being put up over night, and then being taken down after the event. So its quite a lot of footage! I do understand its going to be huge. I just want to know what the best way to do this would be? How would I even start? Compressing to 10 mins seems like a good idea. If I get all the material on the timeline, then what do I do? Please help!

Thanks
Sitara

[Shane Ross]

Load the clips into the Viewer. Press CMD-J, adjust the speed to your liking, drop it into the sequence…render if necessary. If you like the speed and won’t be adjusting it again, then export that as a self contained QT file, reimport it…and then delete the original tape media from the computer…BUT KEEP THE CLIP. If you need to recapture the tape for any reason, it would be wise to keep the clip information.

Shane

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[Sitara Menon]

Thanks guys, i’m powering through my 48 hrs of footage!!

[Mark Baldwin]

How about making time lapse from still files? I’m going to use an intervalometer with my Canon 5Dm2 to take a bazillion JPGs. Is there a method in FCP to easily create a sequence from these?