Time lapse movies

Step 2 The software

You will need all the bits of paper / disks / list of websites etc that came with the webcam or capture card when you bought it. For starters, you need to see the scene on your monitor when you point your video camera or web camera at the original.

Then, when you've gotten tired of playing with that, head over to these websites and download and install them:

1. Irfan view ( http://www.irfanview.com/ )- this is a great image viewer, and I use it for most of my image file manipulations and all my image renaming needs.

2. Fast movie Processor ( http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000009888 ) - this program does a great job, easily assembling a collection of series of pictures into a movie

3. VirtualDub ( http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ ) - This does everything to a video file that you need to do, I use it to add sound to the movie.

If you have windows xp, it will have windows movie maker installed, which is a great tool indeed and easy to use.

All these are free to use for personal use - except windows, which you have to purchase to use. But if you have already paid for the windows you do not have to shell out extra for using the part of it that does movies.