Time lapse movies

Step 7 Overview

This is how I made the movie shown here. This might not be the only way to do it. It is certainly not the best. But doing it this way has worked for me, and I am too lazy to try and find alternative ways to do it.

1. Point the camera at something where something is happening, eg: A sunrise, a moonrise or a busy street.

2. Set up Dorgem to store captured images in a directory with time related file names ( cap%g.jpg ).

3. Wait.

4. Exit Dorgem and fire up Irfan view. Rename those files in numerical order. Exit Irfan view.

5. Start Fast Motion Processor (FMP). In the dialog which asks for input files, provide the name of the first frame. FMP will add the rest of the frames automatically.

6. Set up video compression and frame rate. I use MPEG4 and 10 fps in most of the cases. Play around with the frame rate. Some movies look good at a slower rate (5 fps), some would need a high rate (25 fps) to look good.

7. Save the video file. Exit FMP.

8. Open the movie in VirtualDub and add a sound track.

9. That's it! You have made a time lapse movie with sound.