Thursday, 3 May 2012

Image Sequencing -Time lapse // Workshop

Pillar Boxing- Black space that runs vertically along side the video playing.
Letter Boxing-  Black space that runs horizontally along side the video playing.
(usually appear when playing modern film on an old television)

Action






After going onto actions and going to 'New Action' and pressing 'Record' you will notice the record button will turn red from grey letting you know you are ready to go.

Batch

Check the 'Override action command'
the other check boxes are irrelevant for what we want to do.

the other override action 'Save As' check box will, if you don't check it, read through all the images and try and save all the images which takes to much time. Next is 2 Digit Serial Number. This will let you choose the folder you want to save your images into. 

Errors- Leave as 'Stop For Errors'

Once all the images have been 'Batched' its time to go onto Quicktime Movie. Go to FILE and then OPEN IMAGE SEQUENCE.
It will ask you to select your image and then what frame per second you want to run with. The tutor suggested that the best to use is 6 FRAMES PER SECOND.


Quicktime will then play all the images together creating a timelapse. If you want to video to loop simply goto VIEW and press LOOP (command L
By selecting LOOP BACK AND FORTH you can get the video to run back on its self so that it gives the effect of a longer video. 

SAVING the video- Go to file and save, the two options are 'Save self contained' and 'Save as reference movie
The problem with saving as self contained this is there are 100s of different types of video. If I go straight to save it will save it as some random file type 
File export from QUICKTIME is easily the best way to save your video (export) properly.


Here is the video ^^

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