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How can I improve my time lapse?

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Downtofilm
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I made this time lapse, its pretty short but it was just a test.
It seems shaky? anyway I can fix this?
it was on a solid tripod and I did not move it.



Thanks guys.
Apr 7 2011 9:41PM
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SkiThe603
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Is it one solid shot, or frame by frame because the solid shouldn't shift like that, but if it is frame by frame then it is just the transition from one to the next
Apr 7 2011 9:45PM
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MANDER
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Ya, thats weird. Its super glitchy and theres a dark frame around 0:07. No idea what happened to cause this though. 
Apr 7 2011 9:45PM
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*Pow2ThePeople
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someone is going to hate on me for saying this but... could it be wind moving the tripod just a bit in each shot?
Apr 7 2011 9:49PM
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Downtofilm
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what do you mean by 1 solid shot?
this is how i did it

I imported the pics
put them in a batch then set it to h.263 75% quality
frame rate : 25
then exported
then uploaded
Apr 7 2011 9:50PM
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DUBIE
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yo check and see if you have your auto focus on
Apr 7 2011 9:57PM
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Downtofilm
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Would image stabilizer affect it?
Apr 7 2011 10:25PM
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Brentizzle
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looks like wind to me. Make sure autofocus is off and try and make everything so its manual so your shots dont change when the lighting changes and messes up the shot.
Apr 7 2011 10:30PM
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Downtofilm
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A
Apr 7 2011 11:54PM
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blatt
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what was the intervolometer set at? Frame rate was set too low, which is why it looks really choppy. The only thing I could think of that would cause the shot to be shaky would be that each photo was shot manually, which I highly doubt.
Apr 8 2011 12:24AM
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Downtofilm
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yes?no?
Apr 8 2011 1:20AM
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TijmenDal
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Depends, on some long telephoto lenses it does. Shorter lenses normally don't affect from IS on a tripod.

Looks like wind to me btw.
Apr 8 2011 4:17AM
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eheath
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smmoooothhhcammm
Apr 8 2011 4:24AM
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Vebbi
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you should check out "vimeo video school":

http://vimeo.com/videoschool

http://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/9/timelapse

+k for clicky.



Apr 8 2011 10:26AM
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Brentizzle
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Not saying that smoothcam doesn't work because I use it often myself but I had one experience with a time lapse that had somewhat the same issue as this one and it zoomed it in to like 210% to fix the minor shakes which I thought was very funny. Smoothcam could work in this situation though.
Apr 8 2011 10:33AM
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Downtofilm
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i tried that and it was still kind of shaky.
Apr 8 2011 11:15AM
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Dr.NS
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but I thought downtofilm film production company only ever did slow-mo? What is this timelapse shit
Apr 8 2011 12:21PM
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eheath
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Sometimes it doesn't work great, ive had lots of problems trying to smooth cam rolling shutter/weird jittery shots.
Apr 8 2011 5:08PM
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Butt=Tight
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http://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/9/timelapse


http://vimeo.com/videoschool

Apr 8 2011 6:45PM
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