Sun Rise with Picasa Batch I'm lucky & Movie Maker at 1/12 sec

Made with Picasa after batch processing all 341 photos in I'm Feeling Lucky mode and choosing Time lapse in the Transition Effects and set at 1/12 second per frame in Picasa's Movie Maker. Picasa is free, get it. These were shot at 3 second intervals over 24 minutes.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• time
• lapse
• Picasa

[iDmusic1]

Hi, love your video. i hope you can help me. Ive put together my own timelapse in picasa 3 but im having problems playing it back. it plays back fine in picasa but then when i click "create video" it saves but the file is literally just a few Kb's and it says the duration is 00:00. can you please give me any suggestions. thanks

[yogakayak]

@iDmusic1

I have the same problem sometimes when I try to add the music in the Picasa Movie Maker. If I just make the movie in Picasa and add the music with Flash Video MX Pro I have no problems.

[iDmusic1]

@yogakayak thanks, appreciate that! is Flash Video MX pro free?

[yogakayak]

@iDmusic1

No, It is not expensive, but it is nice to wind these big videos down to a flv before uploading. It compresses it about 10 to 1.

[welrdelr]

I also use Picasa 3 for time lapse I use a Plicx Time lapse attachment to take photos but you can use your notebook and a program where you can set your camera to take a photo at certain intervals of time. One of these programs comes with a Canon Rebel. I edit and at titles and music in Windows movie maker as I have been using it a long time. If you are haven't done this better save Windows Movie maker every chance you get because it freezes every now and then ... Welrdelr 

[yogakayak]

@welrdelr

The Canon Rebel EOS utility program that lets you theater to a lap to is limited to 5 second intervals or longer. A $20 intervalometer I got on eBay allows down to 1 second intervals . This video was shot at 3 second intervals. I get much better results and have a much greater playback speed with Picasa than QuickTime Pro.

[iDmusic1]

@yogakayak cheers, thanks for your help! :)

[welrdelr]

Picasa can go down to 1/6 of a second per photo on the display of a photo and you are correct that the Photo program that comes with the Canon Rebel Xti will only go down to .05 seconds. I use a Plicx time lapse attachment (about $100) and have taken photos at . 02 seconds and I hear the shutter click every 2 sec. but the number of the photo on the display does not go down one number with each click. I can get over 2700 small photos with standard mem. card. The intervalometer sounds great..