[Stephen Curry]

Thanks for the tip Walter,

I guess I’m not familiar with Conformed Media Cache.

How do you clear it / them?

Steph

[Stephen Curry]

No, I mention that in my post….for the life of me I cant figure out why it does this periodically…but its a nusiance.

[Stephen Curry]

Thanks Joseph, thats a great work around using another product.

Still seems to me that the brains at Adobe could come up with some sort of script or built in tool that allows you to tell AE to pluck out every 12 frame from a video clip and voila there’s your faux timelapse.

Seems a super simple concept to me, but go figure.

Thanks again for the great idea.

Steph

[Stephen Curry]

Thank you,

you have accurately articulated exactly what I want and what Ive been asking for from the beginnings of this thread.

However, I wish to be able to do this in AE and I am not sure how to do this and was hoping for a step by step guide.

It seems it would be a simple operation but just not an obvious one to people such as myself who know enough about AE to tweak some things but otherwise not very proficient.

Thanks again
Stephen

[Stephen Curry]

OK then maybe the terminology used was inaccurate.

maybe its more a stop-motion effect that is what is being looked for.

but what I and others have been seeking is a way to duplicate a visual effect, (possibly with a script) where you can designate that AE pull every X frame from a video clip to create this effect.

[Stephen Curry]

Thanks for the post Fateh but all that does is slow down the footage…its doesnt give it the choppy time lapse effect.

[Stephen Curry]

Thanks Bella I think your suggestion was exactly what I was looking for.

Dave….I appreciate your input but I really dont think you understood the question and your posts only confused the matter and frustrated people.

For those looking for a final answer I used Bella process in this way.

STEPS (sorry dont know all the tech names for the various ‘area’ of AE)
(the settings may differ on video shot at higher or lower frame rates. My example is from a 60/fps video clip)

1. brought/imported/dragged my video into AE. [Project window]
2. from the [Project window] I clicked and dragged the icon of my video clip down to the ‘film clip icon’ (otherwise known as the comp icon) at the bottom of the [Project window] and had AE create a new comp with the default configuration of the video itself.
2b. the video is now listed as a line item in the [comp timeline window] (most people have this as the bottom most window within AE)
3. from the [comp timeline window] I selected and highlighted my video
4. then went to the [Effects and Presets window] and searched for ‘Posterize Time’
5. from the [Effects and Presets window] I click and held on the ‘Posterize Time’ effect and dragged it onto the view of my video in the [playback window] OR you can click and drag the effect to the line item of your video in the [comp timeline window] (in this case line item #1) and release.
6. Once the effect is applied I went to/opened the [Effect Controls window] and set the Frame Rate option to 1.0fps
7. then went back to line item #1 in the [comp timeline window] that contains my video and clicked to highlight it
8. with the video highlighted, I RIGHT clicked on the ‘column header bar’ and from the drop menu I selected Columns>Stretch.
8b. This should created a new column labled ‘Stretch’ above you line items in the [comp timeline window]
9. then from the new column of Stretch I double clicked the 100% and changed it to 50% (or lower if need be) to speed up the clip

you may need to tweak things for your own preferences….

I found this to work very well in doing what I was after.

Thanks Bella…Wish you had answered long ago…..

[Stephen Curry]

great that worked…thanks

[Stephen Curry]

Thanks John….I render out using that Codec with 720p/29.97 110 8bit and it was about 20M smaller than what I was doing otherwise….

any little helps 🙂

[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/