![]() This is why it is essential to plan your time-lapse and to shoot either on a tripod or some other stable mounting device. Trust me, you want to shoot your time-lapse with a stable camera. It will be very difficult to create the product you have in your mind’s eye retrospectively. Regardless of the software, you will need to expand and crop in order to stabilize the image. You could fix the movement in the camera using simpler software, but this will require you to reposition each photograph individually to create the same framing in each image. This can be overcome, however, it will take some effort! You will need to become familiar with some pretty advanced software such as Adobe AfterEffects, Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion or similar. If the images were shot hand-held, there will be changes in both the framing and the perspective. So, if you do have an image sequence which you intend to make a time-lapse from, the other issue is going to be camera stability and perspective. ![]() Some shoot 25fps and 30fps as well, which coordinates with the NTSC and PAL framerates. I personally shoot 24 images for each second of video I want to produce. Now, mind you, 12 frames per second is generally not recommended, 24 is a standard minimum frame-rate. These early motion pictures were a series of still images replayed at between 12 and 24 frames per second, which gives the appearance of a consistently moving picture. Early examples of film, such as “ Sallie Gardner At A Gallop” were essentially timelapses. The use of a sequence of still images, displayed sequentially, has been used since to create even the earlier motion pictures. The absolute minimum frame-rate for motion to appear smooth is typically 12 frames per second – so a dozen photographs could become as much as a second. If you were thinking you might be able to make a time-lapse out of a dozen handheld photographs, well, you could, but you must remember that most video is between 24 and 30 frames per second and almost all time-lapse is shot from a tripod (for good reason). You are very unlikely to be able to decide to produce a time-lapse after having taken photographs – unless very short, time-lapse is something you are going to need to plan to create. This allows time to move forward more quickly depending on the interval between each photograph. Time-lapse is typically created by taking still images and using them as frames for a video or film.
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