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Re: Time Lapse Video

ok so assuming you took photos with a still camera and all of your footage is in pictures. The best way to do this is an image sequence folder/file. What you need to do is take your pictures and name them "picture001" "Picture002" "Picture003" and so on. Then you drag the folder into premiere and it will recognize that its a image sequence folder. You should have nothing else in the folder expect those files. and then it will play the frames like a movie at 30 fps. If this is too fast then you need to change the frame rate. Right click on the file in the bin and go to "Interpret footage" and change the frame rate.

I don't know if there is an option to mass rename a whole bunch of files with numbers at the end of them. So if you don't know of one I highly recommend that you not do the procedure above if you have more than 100 photos.

next best option is to grab yourself a can of soda or two. Put on some good music, cause its gonna take a while.

Drag all the pictures into premiere then manually place them into the time line and cut them down to a frame or two. then when you have them all in order and on the time line create a new sequence and title it "Time Lapse" then drag the sequence title "Sequence 01" from the bin into the Time Lapse timeline. Now you can speed up the video and slow down the video by right clicking on the video in the timeline and choose speed/duration.

OH!!! I just thought of something else that may help.

Download hypercam. Get all the videos in order then open up windows picture viewer by clicking on a file. Set the output video file then run Hypercam to capture your screen as you manually flip through the pictures. Now take your video that you made with hypercam and import it into premiere. Crop out the window so all you see are the pictures and speed of the footage. BAM!! timelapse. Hoowahh!!! I am good!
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