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AMG133

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Well not entirely sure if it is video editing software, I got about 500+ still pics that I want make into a video or animated gif. I'll prefer the video option though. Im trying to make a time lapse video, I did try windows movie maker but the intervals are too long, tried to make it as short as possible but the end product still dragged on. Also tried various gif animators but they all messed it up big time.

Maybe theres some other freeware you guys are aware of on the internet that could help me?
 
Have you tried flash?

Its not free but apparently Rendier downloads a TB a month and sells the stuff for a hundred bucks for 100 gigs. I'm sure he can get you any program you need. He's also on the east coast..
 
you can do that in blender 3d quite easily, but you may need to find a few tutorials first... as the user interface is not that intuitive... just look for anything on the vse in blender 3d- there are a few video tutorials about. I rendered out a few thousand frames as jpg files, then composited them together, saving the output to divx, at the standard 24 frames a second, so I know it definitely works.... other than that, I would suggest you take a look at this site...

http://www.programmerfish.com/10-free-apps-that-turn-your-ubuntu-into-video-studio/
 
AMG133 said:
Well not entirely sure if it is video editing software, I got about 500+ still pics that I want make into a video or animated gif. I'll prefer the video option though. Im trying to make a time lapse video, I did try windows movie maker but the intervals are too long, tried to make it as short as possible but the end product still dragged on. Also tried various gif animators but they all messed it up big time.

Maybe theres some other freeware you guys are aware of on the internet that could help me?
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Windows Movie Maker... it should already be on your PC.
 
thanks for the link will check it out, I had blender 3D, wonder if its the same thing.

believe me, I made the intervals on Windows movie maker as short as possible but still doesnt look good.
 
AMG have you tried chainging iterviles in the timeline? just drage the clips closer to the start and the time will shorten, otherwise look on sourceforge
 
AMG133 said:
thanks for the link will check it out, I had blender 3D, wonder if its the same thing.

believe me, I made the intervals on Windows movie maker as short as possible but still doesnt look good.
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yeah it probably is the same program... www.blender3d.org

its not actually that difficult to do
1) start blender
2) at the top of your screen is a drop down that says SR:2-model
click on that and choose SR:4-Sequence- this puts blender into sequence editor
3) The middle screen is your timeline
click add/images browse to your image folder
click "a" to select all images
click "select images" button

4) a block is inserted into the timeline- position it at the beginning of the timeline. You can now scrub through, press play and watch a preview of your video etc

5) The bottom window contains all the settings- eg frames per second, output format, size etc- some of the settings you need to pay attention to:
5.1) click "do sequence" under the "anim" button
5.2) set your end frames- under anim- currently it will be 250 (on the left of the play, ff, rew buttons you will see the current frame- scrub the timeline to the end of the image blocks and record that number)
5.3) under format choose avi or whatever you want
5.4) under output select where you want to save to
5.5) click anim

its as simple as that...
 
Tpex said:
AMG have you tried chainging iterviles in the timeline? just drage the clips closer to the start and the time will shorten, otherwise look on sourceforge
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Tried that, its about a 2 sec interval, cant get it any quicker.
 
You could use Windows Movie Maker as follows:
- Make the intervals as short as possible
- Render the video
- Import the new video to Windows Movie Maker
- Start a new project
- Add the rendered video to the timeline and add the "Speed Up Double" effect a few times
- Rinse and repeat as neccesary.

Bit of a pain as it may require a few runs, but should work nonetheless (and won't cost you any money either).

Cheers
G
 
photos are like text on screen. once you're familiar with the visuals, your mind makes an imprint and you don't have to process the image fully when you see it next time.

the general rule of thumb is that if you've read it before, reading it 3 times is the same duration that a first time reader will take to process it.

i'm saying that slow isn't bad if it's a one off event-based thing. if it goes on for 10 minutes and everybody's on the floor sleeping, perhaps you should be a bit more selective about the pics and cut down on the time.

flash doesn't do video properly. blender isn't the easiest ui. imovie can to do it nicely with a ken burn filter. a buddy of mine used a fiju or sony app that came bundled with his digital camera. he could even add music and it would change the transition speed according to the tempo. not my vibe, but would make the average user happy.

i normally look on nonags or softpedia for freeware stuff.... for example:
http://www.nonags.com/freeware-digital-clip-factory_3519.html
 
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