So when shooting time lapse... like this one .... how many stills per minute are they using?

I understand they have tracks and motors and crazy stuff for the movement... but if i was going to do a stationary stop motion... how many shots? I want to say 1 pic per second... so at 30fps each minute of real life is 2 seconds of film.... but that sounds too slow... maybe 1 shot a sec, playback at 60fps for smooth scenes... then 1 min=1second... 1hour is 1 min..... still sounds too slow... that vid seems to cram 8 hours into a 5 sec snapshot.

i guess im curious if they shoot 1 shot/ second, run like 45fps, and then speed up the video with a program like twixtor..

i should mention my camera is a Nikon D90... should be able to do this right?

hmm thoughts?

http://digitalartwork.net/2007/01/30/time-lapse-tutorial/

I have shot using a photo every 2 seconds on the GOPRO and set it to 30fps in post with good effect (smooth motion). I used VirtualDub to make the film clips. This video has a sunrise, rigging area, and sunset timelapse (the sunrise and sunset panning using an eggtimer about 15 minutes each, the rigging area was shot on a tripod about 10 minutes??)...

http://vimeo.com/34486788
the bumps in the sunset timelapse was actually cause by the wind.

The guy in the tut Rip linked to is using very high framerates compared to what the GoPro can do... you Nikon should make life a bit easier and the output smoother

And it depends on the scene... I accidentally had the GoPro to time lapse when I went for a ride on the motorbike once. So lots of fast action between frames each second...

With Vegas, you just dump all the photos in and (insert a quick look at a tutorial on YouTube) a quick fiddle and it's done. Basically, choosing the correct output framerate is the key to making it watchable. Actually, looks similar to the QT Pro too...

With the bike and 1 photo/second, I think I used an output of 4fps - otherwise, it just jumped too fast and you couldn't really 'see' what was going on.
I think the new firmware - or new GoPro - allow you to take more than 1fps, which I would use for hi-motion action.

But that's a moot point if you're using a 'real' camera

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Originally posted by ripsessionkites http://digitalartwork.net/2007/01/30/time-lapse-tutorial/

Awesome link, thanks rip!

Woot!