A video collage

[Ben Egbert]

After watching the tutorial Jameel sent me. I did some work on my timelapse from individual frames. It was shot at 10 second intervals so maybe it will always be jerky. But using .08 seconds and 24FPS I got it about as good as I could. It was too short now, so I made a collage with the other sunsets and sunrises I have been doing. The rest are all in camera so they are smoother.

So I know how to add a title, merge several videos, and add music. I need to figure out the best interval to shoot time lapse. My in camera are all 3 seconds.

This is a learning deal so CC is welcome.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Looks pretty good Ben. The interval between shots depend on the subject and at what rate things are moving. So there is no one right answer.

 

[AlanLichty]

Neat watching the clouds near the mountain peaks.

 

[JimFox]

That’s the same idea I had with my Milky Way shots from Joshua Tree since most of mine would only add up to around 10 to 20 secs each, I combined them. I like yours better since you had quite the variety of conditions.

I know this is a test for you, but 2 suggestions.

Don’t have your title cover the whole screen. The first Timelapse can’t be seen really cause it’s covered up. I have been taking a single image and placing it in front for 5 seconds and I put my title and info over that. Let the title and that single image then transition into the Timelapse.

2nd, you can crop in Movavi. So you only need a very small crop to lose the roof tops. On your next tests, be sure the roof tops aren’t in the frame. A small detail, but even for testing you might as well compose right. Because while you are thinking of these as tests, they are really cool looking Ben. So you might want them for something better in the future.

A 3rd thing came to mind. You had mentioned about zooming in a comment to mine. My zooming was from one of the “zooming” Transitions. Be sure to place a transition between each timelape. And you can adjust the settings as to how long you want that zoom to take.

Did you shoot these from your front yard or backyard? They really are quite nice. You should shoot more (minus the roofs) and you would have something very enjoyable.

Overall, awesome work!!!

 

[Ben Egbert]

That’s the same idea I had with my Milky Way shots from Joshua Tree since most of mine would only add up to around 10 to 20 secs each, I combined them. I like yours better since you had quite the variety of conditions.

I know this is a test for you, but 2 suggestions.

Don’t have your title cover the whole screen. The first Timelapse can’t be seen really cause it’s covered up. I have been taking a single image and placing it in front for 5 seconds and I put my title and info over that. Let the title and that single image then transition into the Timelapse.

2nd, you can crop in Movavi. So you only need a very small crop to lose the roof tops. On your next tests, be sure the roof tops aren’t in the frame. A small detail, but even for testing you might as well compose right. Because while you are thinking of these as tests, they are really cool looking Ben. So you might want them for something better in the future.

A 3rd thing came to mind. You had mentioned about zooming in a comment to mine. My zooming was from one of the “zooming” Transitions. Be sure to place a transition between each timelape. And you can adjust the settings as to how long you want that zoom to take.

Did you shoot these from your front yard or backyard? They really are quite nice. You should shoot more (minus the roofs) and you would have something very enjoyable.

Overall, awesome work!!!

Thanks Jim, In earlier versions of these I had cropped out the rooftops, but they had titles in them so I had to start over and forgot to crop. I have had more problems getting titles to work as expected than anything else. I will probably build a new collage where I address the crop issue. This is from my back deck. Now I need to learn how to insert a single image up front.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Looks pretty good Ben. The interval between shots depend on the subject and at what rate things are moving. So there is no one right answer.

I have concluded that the 10 second interval is what makes it jerky, it was a windy day and the clouds were fast moving. I always like the default 3 second timing of in camera, so I will work closer to that. I chose 10 seconds because even with 100 images, the overall length would be too short. I am Leary of needing a 100 terabyte hard drive to store these files.

 

[JimFox]

I have concluded that the 10 second interval is what makes it jerky, it was a windy day and the clouds were fast moving. I always like the default 3 second timing of in camera, so I will work closer to that. I chose 10 seconds because even with 100 images, the overall length would be too short. I am Leary of needing a 100 terabyte hard drive to store these files.

Hey Ben, as we progress with this we might want to create a list of recommended shutter speeds and gaps between images. As Jameel pointed out, there won’t be a one size fits all recipe here.

Last night as I am driving back to California I thought about maybe doing a Timelapse at the beach with the waves. But as I thought through it in my head, that could get really complicated or look bad and jerky easily as the waves would need to be continuously shot with no gaps or the waves would jerk or jump and not look smooth. Perhaps waves would be the worse case. How if I shoot continuosly do I speed it up to have a Timelapse look? At that point I might as well just shoot video instead and then speed up the play back, which you can do in Movavi.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good point Jim. I will try to find best intervals for my applications. Moving water could be a challenge. I am redoing my collage with your suggestions.

 

[JimFox]

I look forward to seeing your rework Ben.

I will create a thread that we can stick at the top where we can store our settings we used.

Thinking again, I think this is what we want to record. If I missed anything let me know.

1. Subject
2. Shutter speed
3. Gap (delay) between taking photos (if any)
4. Program used to create Timelapse
5. Gap (delay) between frames

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ok, 3 could be hours or days. 5 will be a small number in seconds.

Another thing might be in camera creation with post processing in another program. VS singles assembled in Photoshop or Movavi or simillar.