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Doing a time lapse?

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1-pippin
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hey im just starting to do time lapse's with my camera, ive done a couple with clouds and stuff using the settings on the camera and it works fine, but if you want to get something like a cars going by would you just shoot it normal then fast forward in editing?
May 8 2007 11:46PM
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dozerr
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or you can fast forward real time
May 8 2007 11:48PM
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Nicholas.
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you gotzta film shit fo real long then fast it up son. so it dont take so long to watch.
May 8 2007 11:52PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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how hard is it to do a timelapse....turn on your camera and your good to go
May 8 2007 11:52PM
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EVAN.F
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some cameras have settings where it can film for a second every whatever amount of time up to 10min so u can save space and batteries. that would be for flowers, or other incredibly slow things, traffic you would probably just film normally than speed it up to however fast u want
May 9 2007 1:34AM
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rocMALONEYphotos
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i have a few time lapse in my tricktape, the longest one was prolly 10mins, then i changed the speed to 5000X the normal speed, and it turned into like a 20 second clip
May 9 2007 4:33AM
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van_ski
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how do you do time lapses where the camera is moving , is that just adding a a video effect(in the editing program) or somthing
Aug 17 2007 2:54AM
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mcnutty
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post a video of of these, i've seen it done as an editing effect, but i'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. never done anything but a normal time lapse myself.
Aug 17 2007 12:47PM
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TylerS
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I think i know what you mean. Landis Tanaka had one in Neon when he was spinning around in the room with the camera pointing at his face...
Aug 17 2007 12:55PM
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Geoff.
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they probably zoomed in in post and then moved it around, if that makes sense.
Aug 17 2007 12:55PM
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scientist
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I think he means like the camera moves slowly, like in Skiporn on the rainforest place. Im sure that is just the "zoom in left" "zoom out left" ect featres. theres a bunch that you can use like toggle and stuff with different programs.
Aug 17 2007 12:58PM
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Jwenz
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in a moving time lapse some people actually sit there and slowly move the camera in a pan, others just zoom in and move left and right with motion effects
Aug 17 2007 1:05PM
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van_ski
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cool thanks
Aug 17 2007 4:33PM
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connoroh
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many of those moving ones are actually mechanisms that are attached to the camera. like, for a 360 degree pan lapse you could do something as simple as attach your camera to an egg timer and let it run out. as for zooms i can only feel that it is using motion zooms in post, as someone else said.
Aug 29 2007 2:33PM
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honeydip
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for the crazy time lapses that pan, i just do it in the editing program.
Aug 29 2007 2:57PM
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