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99. Venice's People: Canon 7D 24p

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98. Critics Promo 2: REVENGE

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97. San Francisco's People. Canon 5DmkII 24p

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96. Timelapse test. Stills vs Video on the Canon 7D/ 5DmkII

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95. "Lucky Lucky": 7D and 5dmkII photo movie

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94. 36 hour timelapse on the Canon 7D

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93. How to make video timelapse from DSLR stills

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92. Very brief 7D timelapse test 2

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91. Critics: Promo 1

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90. Dungeness timelapse experiment with Canon 7d

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89. 7d 5dmkII noise and rolling shutter rough test

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88. Girl with the flaxen hair: Canon 7d 30p (!)

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87. Greenpeace: Voices of change. Shot on Canon 5dmkII

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86. Timelapse test with the Canon 7d

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85. Sugar Cane. Canon 7d slow motion

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84. Bloom's USA Video Blog: The British Invasion. Shot on 7d

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83. Random Dublin shots from workshop: Canon 7d

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82. Dublin's People: Canon 7d 24p

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81. Shaving It Back: Canon 7d

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80. Siamese Twins: Lumix GH1

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79. River Crane Walk: Redrock Encore and EX1 test

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78. Syncing audio and video shot on 5d and Zoom using …

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77. Canon 5dmkII workflow Part 1: Importing for edit

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76. Echoing Words: Canon 5dmkII

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75. "On Your Shoulder" Commercial shot on the Canon 5dMkII 25p

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74. Cherry Blossom Girl: Canon 5dmkII 25p

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73. Review of New Vinten Vision AS series of tripod heads

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Tutorial on how to take your stills taken with your DSLR and turn them into great timelapse HD video.

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Wayne Avanson 2 months ago

Thanks for that Philip, Have been meaning to have a proper go at this and was wondering about time between shots. This one is 7 seconds, what was the Dungeness one and your night sky wedding timelapse? and were the shutter speeds different for a starscape shoot as opposed to a daytime shoot?
Thanks

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599 Productions 2 months ago

Interesting using Quicktime to assemble the frames. I don't think you could use that method if you were shooting your sequence in RAW. If your going to shoot timelapse I would suggest shooting in RAW because it looks way better and you don't get problems with banding.
Justin Evidon 2 months ago

You can always shoot in RAW and then convert the images to JPG after post-production.
599 Productions 2 months ago

That's very true but I was looking at it more that it was telling people to shoot jpeg instead of RAW because of the ease of converting the frames into video files. There are times when I use large jpeg but only when the camera begins to choke on frames. Mainly driving timelapse for me because the exposures are around 1/2 a second.
Tom Guilmette 2 months ago

i did not know you could use quicktime pro to create image sequences.

i was using the final cup pro timeline and one frame jpgs! thanks for this phil. i learned a lot.

i have not tried 5dmk2 time lapsing using raw images. that will be next!
Elvis Ripley 2 months ago

When you choose your HD size you will probably want to set "preserve aspect ratio" to something so it doesn't stretch out your image. Not Crop but probably Letterbox. It depends on what you want.
Andres Hernandez 2 months ago

nice tutorial!!
Michael Schoeneis 2 months ago

Jesus, Philip! You can find stuff on that dock?? :o ;)
ZhiC 2 months ago

Very informative tutorial!
Although I think doing this 4 or 5K manipulation would just kill off my computer
WendyCity Productions 2 months ago

Philip, I haven't got Quicktime Pro and I'm using Final Cut Express. Any suggestion on how I can do this with my limitations? Thanks!
David & Cameron Barrett 2 months ago

Great piece, Philip. Practical application uses for FCP and other tools are much needed, notably as the tools themselves change. Well done. Cheers.
Daniel Rappa 2 months ago

Your dock is amazing!
Ludwig Derumeaux 2 months ago

Indeed, what a dock you have there ! But I know there is a tutorial coming up : how to create a HD dock, i.e. a dock that is as wide as a High Definition window. That is why screens get bigger all the time. There are always people whose dock ends fall off the screen.

Seriously, thanks for sharing this !
Billy DeCola 2 months ago

Nice tutorial! 5K stopped my MacBook Pro dead in its tracks... so I batched resized the images before creating the Quiktime and all was good.
Daniel Croitoru 2 months ago

i use quicktime but in windows and i cannot export the timelapse because quicktime crash so... i have to use after effects to make this:|

good ideea with scale option
tkx
Irrum 2 months ago

Thanks, I've been making timelapses with still images in Quicktime Pro using exactly the same method. I wondering about adding some movement in Final Cut. Your video has really helped me out.
Sam Morrill 2 months ago

Good stuff, Philip. I was wondering if you knew how to do this on Snow Leopard. As it stands, it comes pre-installed with the new Quicktime Player, which doesn't include the "open image sequence" function. Thoughts?
Some Like It Shot 2 months ago

yes Quicktime 7 which is still on your computer.
ße ωell ;-) 2 months ago

I think the above comments say it all Philip! Thanks for sharing, hopefully you will inspire many more people to do time lapse videos with your tutorial...

Cheers ;-)
Justin Evidon 2 months ago

Excellent work Philip. Your disclaimer of being on a MacBook Pro seems to be a recurring theme - is that just because you're doing these tutorials on the road, or because you are putting off getting a MacPro? Either way, this is extremely informative to anyone looking to do timelapses, so you're providing a great service.
Some Like It Shot 2 months ago

due to me being on the road. got a mac pro!
Maciej Puczyński 2 months ago

Thanks! I have a question however - how do you make the stills be taken in even intervals?
Some Like It Shot 2 months ago

using the intervelometer which i set to the duration
William Rich 2 months ago

Thank you so much!!!
By the way.. I just heard that Canon announced a firmware update for the 5Dmk2 to shoot 24/25p!!!
ed fore 2 months ago

very cool , just got a 5d 2 will have to try this
thanks
David Dutton 2 months ago

Awesome, thanks for making this!!
Daniel Croitoru 1 month ago

every time i use curent size to export the movie, quicktime crash. If i use to export 1280x720 or 1920x1280 - it works
Daniel Dides 1 month ago

Maybe your computer isn't up to snuff for that sort of rendering? You have quicktime pro, correct? What are the specs on your computer?
Daniel Croitoru 1 month ago

dual core 3ghz, 2gb ram, 512 video
i don't know i think is a problem with windows version, i I tried on at least 4 PCs

yes i have qt pro

thanks for your comment
Sterling Zumbrunn 29 days ago

Great tutorial, I have been using iStopMotion from Boinx the past few years, but this looks much more straightforward. I really like the high-res pans and zooms. Fantastic work! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
Alan Natale 14 days ago

Why does everything sound better with a British accent? Thank you for this great tutorial, Philip.
H-Dub 12 days ago

Thanks Philip! I just tried it myself using your instructions. vimeo.com/7857119