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I know a little bit about number 2 from shooting time lapses with my gopro. It is possible to get a pan movement by cropping your shots in on post and then panning them with the extra room.
First oftimelpase isn't video, it's pictures, which is why you need the intervelometer to tell your camera to take the pictures every "X" seconds. I use a macbook for this which makes my camera able to shoot without delay because it isn't saving directly to my memory card.
if you look at my timelapse the shot of the bridge panning was done in final cut express i believe.. i can't exactly remember, but I think the only reason why it looks decent is because of how wide of an angle of lens i use.
i have recently started doing a fair amount of timelapses. to answer your questions..
an intervalometer will take a picture every X amount of seconds. timelapses are done using photos only, no video. so for example you have the shutter speed at 1/30, f/22 and pictures every two seconds for 1 hour. this will give a nice smooth drag, so it wont look as choppy. the intervalometer can also act as the bulb setting, meaning you can either lock the shutter, holding it for as long as you want, or you can set a long shutter to go off every X number of seconds/minutes. In camera, you can only have a 30 second shutter speed until you have to shoot bulb for more. the intervalometer expands on this, so you can have a 45 second shutter speed every minute or so, for a star timelapse as an example.
as for the second question, unless someone is professionally creating timelapses, the effect can be done in an editor. you just crop in, then set key frames to move the image from one side to the other, wether it is horizontally or vertically. otherwise, you can buy motorized tracks/motorized pan and tilt heads for tripods.
hope that helps. timelapses are very cool and fun to try
What do you guys do as far as battery life? Whenever I shoot night timelapses with long exposures I can only get like 30 shots if even out of the 2 batterys in my grip. Haaaalppp!
what kind of long exposures are you doing? for an average timelapse with long exposure (stars) here in michigan i can get away with a 30 second exposure time and get around 200-300 pictures. and i still have battery life. im not really sure why you go through batteries so quick
You've got to be kidding me. Timelapses are a type of photography. Sure putting shitty timelapses in edits is played, but to say timelapses are played is like saying videography or photography is played. Sorry for the rant it's just I have spent the entire summer shooting timelApses, hiking and driving for hours just to get a shot, sleeping overnight with my camera, well, you get the point
do you use the program thing that came with the EOS utilities disc or a different program, the one on the disc can only take a picture once every 5 seconds
1. Buy an intervalometer
2. Take a series of high-res JPEGS
3. Put all images in a dedicated folder
4. In Quicktime Pro, go to File > Open Image Sequence and select the first JPEG in the folder
5. Export as an .mov
6. Apply Ken Burns effect in FCP, or you can slice it up in AE and do 3D layers like in Teddybear Crisis.
If you don't have QT Pro, you can use MPEGStreamclip (which is free) for step 4. Go to File>Open Files and use Command+A to select all the images in your folder. Then go to export to Quicktime and choose your desired codec, resolution, and framerate (I usually use Apple ProRes422(LT) at 24fps).
Also, if you have lightroom or a similar program, its a good idea to crop all the photos to a 16:9 aspect ratio so you can scale down to 1080p without squishing the photos. Also, if you have Lighroom, download LRTimelapse. You can use it to deflicker your sequence before you export it.
MPEGstreamclip does when scaling down to 1080p. Not sure about QT Pro as I haven't used it. If you export at the original resolution then it wouldn't be an issue.
Pretty sure he's referring to when objects in the foreground and background are cut apart in post and key framed to move independently from one another in order to give the effect that the camera was moving while the time lapse was shot.
No. There's a different model for that if I remember correctly. Also sold on the same site for the same price.
And the Teddybear Crisis thing is when they use 3D layers in AE. Since each frame is a high resolution JPEG, and you're working in low res (1080p), you have enough headroom to cut out parts of the image, enlarge them, and animate them. This method only works when there's distinct objects in the foreground obstructing the background however; it is in no way a substitute for using an actual motorized dolly.
