[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?

[Stephen Curry]

thanks Alan

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

thanks for this info thou

Steph

[Stephen Curry]

Hi Marco,

I’ve never found a solution to this but we have the same issue/desire that we are trying to achieve. It would be nice if there was some sort of expression you could type that simply tells AE to display/render every X frame.

The guy who say its just a matter of speeding up the footage I don’t think fully understands time-lapse or maybe its just me who doesn’t understand.

From all the time-lapse footage I’ve seen; (i.e. people in a train station lets say) the person being filmed may be next to a phone booth in one frame and then several feet away in the next frame and so forth…speeding up your normal footage doesn’t do that IMO. It still shows the entire progression of the person, just faster. time-lapse gives the appearance of a person almost sliding/hopping/jumping from one position to the next.

Also it seems the people on the forum are asking us to use a still camera to make our time lapse footage (as its meant to be) but that’s not the issue. I/we are trying to convert normal footage and give it a time lapse feel and appearance. Its like someone telling you to just go dig for real gold when all you want is gold plating

What we’re trying to achieve could be done manually by rendering out your footage as individual images and then importing back in every 10th/20th/30th image (of your choice) back into AE and rendering just those images into a new video file….but who wants to spend all that time doing that…

That’s why I asked if there was a plug-in/expression/trick of the trade that could do the tedious stuff.

I found this AE template:

https://videohive.net/item/stop-motion-photo-slideshow/1116243

In this template the author seems to have managed to give his video the look that I want and when I asked him how he did it he mentioned that he used the time posterize effect…but Ive haven’t messed with it yet to see.

[Stephen Curry]

OK the impetus for this whole question is this…Canon use to make a camera a few year back that would take Time-lapse video…basically by automatically taking a shot every sec or so…(Canon SD790 IS)…however, their newer models no long have this feature and I was wondering if I could “recreate” within AE

#1:
Show your 30fps video, but show only 1 frame of it every second? Things still take place in real time, it’s just that you see the action frozen for a second, then you proceed to another still frozen during the next second, and so on.

no, showing only 1 frame of it every second would be just a long boring video… 🙂

maybe if I explained it like this

I know this is obvious and Im not trying to sound patronizing so bear me out and maybe I can explain it better…

A. when you film you are continually taking images (30 every sec)…

B. when you film in time lapse you are filming the same scene but only taking a shot once a sec…(so you get the stop motion look and feel)…

You film over a long period of time but what you ultimately get is a short video on the camera’s SD Card because it was filmed at only 1fps instead of the normal 30fps (so filming for an hour in time lapse would only give you a 2min long video)

So what Im trying to ask is if it’s possible, within AE, to automate the procedure and take take every 30th frame from that 60min long video and make it into a 2min time lapse video

(My Math)

60min video would be (60min * 60sec) = 3,600sec long video.
3,600 sec * 30fps = 108,000 individual frames in the 60min video.
take those 108,000 frame and pull out every 30th frame = 3600 individual frames. 3,600 / 30 = 120frame = 2min

[Stephen Curry]

well my understanding of time-lapse is that the images are shot at certain intervals…(ie every 1 sec) which is then done over a long period of time.

but with my current normal video shooting 30 images/frames every 1 sec I need to somehow extract every 30th image…. speeding up the video I dont think would give it the look im after it would just making it go faster….which you can do now with Time>Time Stretch

Ive never used Time remapping so I was looking for a tutorial on how to do it correctly

Sorry if this isnt very clear…

[Stephen Curry]

thanks for the posts guys but I was hoping for some guidance on how to actually go through the process. I’ve never actually used these effects within AE and Im not sure how….

[Stephen Curry]

OK thanks for the video link

but that must be a CS5.5 function cause it doesn’t work that way in CS5.0

Ive found that If I throw one comp into the render que and hold [cntrl] and select my .mov+alpha template for the output module it will change that one comp…and then additionally change all future comps dragged to the render que….but i have to do the above first…

Otherwise

if I have a new project with a new comp and it defaults to the lossless .avi and I drag all 30 comps at once to the render que they are consequently all lossless .avi as well and if I select them all and then click on output module (on the first of the selected comps) and change it to .mov+alpha it will ONLY change the comp I messed with the output module settings and not all the selected ones as well….

so at least i now know I can do it the first way describe above until I can get CS5.5

thanks

[Stephen Curry]

Hi

Yea Ive been to that part of the Adobe help page but it doesnt do what I want it to do.

I copied about 39 comps into the render que.

As it stands now all of them are Lossless .avi and I want them .mov+Alpha

I even created a template and selected all the comps but it still just changes the one comp.

So Im either not understanding how to do this correctly and if someone could give me a step by step solution OR for some reason its not working for me…I dont understand why though

Steph

[Stephen Curry]

same here as well June 5 , 2011

[Stephen Curry]

I can see what you are talking about….so basically its just single clips with lighting and color adjustments placed together in very short sequences?