 What is up guys and welcome back to my channel in this exciting video I will show you how to use the time-lapse function on the Sony a7 III and Show you my workflow afterwards on how I edit using Final Cut Pro X So I use time lapses to show the passage of time and to enhance the story by giving it more emotion I especially like to create time lapses in beautiful places when I travel So when I do my time lapses I used to use a standard intervalometer like this one that costs around 25 bucks that I got from Amazon that it could just plug in and use but with the new 3.0 firmware update, which was released in 2019 on the Sony a7 III it now has a built-in intervalometer that we will test now So the Sun will set around 9 30 p.m. I want to make sure I get there early enough to Set everything up. I'm hoping to get a nice sunset. It really depends on the weather Otherwise, we just have to live with it quite early, but I still want to pack my stuff and head off So let's do that You hear those cars Damn, it's loud out here Sorry about that quiet So I'm here outside on a bridge and I'm looking towards the Sun that is about to set I already set up my camera on a tripod. I already dialed in the settings the camera is pointing towards the Sun and While it's recording I will explain to you what settings I used to record this time lapse I used the free Lumos Sun and moon tracker app that helped me Predict the position of the Sun. It's important that you look for motion in your shot So in this example, it would be the clouds moving and the Sun setting I used the aperture priority so that the exposure stays the relatively the same I turn off the autofocus so that it won't change and Turn off the autofocus so that it won't change and set the white balance to manual to have the same color Temperature throughout the time lapse So I choose to set the aperture to around 14 so that the whole shot is in focus Make sure you shoot in raw so you get the highest quality out of your images As a rule of thumb for quick moving subjects like people walking or cars driving I choose an interval of one two three seconds for slower moving subjects like the Sun setting or the clouds moving I choose an interval of five to ten seconds the number of shots I set to as much as possible. So on the a7 III it would be 9999 Now let's do the math. So for every five seconds I get 12 photos per minute, which means I get 120 photos every 10 minutes and I want to get at least 140 photos per time lapse Which will give me a 10 second clip length. That means I have to wait at least 20 minutes to get that desired clip length Don't worry. You don't have to calculate all of that in your head Just use a time lapse calculator app to figure it out autofocus tracking sense I set to mid silent shooting interval I turn on so that I don't hear the camera every time it takes a photo So the time lapse has now been running for about 20 minutes And I should have a 10 second clip length by now Let's head back to my studio and show you how I put it all together in final cup pro x So what you want to do is create a new project Um, I created a folder called time lapse and a project folder. I will name this time lapse time lapse So I will name this event images I will press command i to import all the images that I took for the time lapse time lapse images As you can see here all the images stored So I will just click on images and import So we imported all the images with a new project. I will name this time lapse Select all the images and press e to Add it to the timeline. So as you can see the duration of each clip is 10 seconds So I want to change that by pressing command a to select all images and then control d to change the duration And I select one for one second and press enter. So now we have all the images Set to one second. I press shift z to fit it to the timeline So I will select all images again and create a compound clip press alt g And name this time lapse clip. That's perfect As you can see there's some black bars on the side. I want to remove that press the transform tool and Zoom it in until you won't see the black bars on the side I want to color grade this time lapse a little bit. I add color finale If you don't have color finale, you can just uh use these normal color wheels Just gonna grade it a little I want to make the time lapse move So what I will do is turn on the transformation tool press the Keyframe button go to the end of the clip And zoom in All right, so let's export this video and let's see the end result of it So that was the final result of my time lapse video I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please consider subscribing and hit that notification bell button to get the latest update On my channel. If you have any questions, leave it in the comment section below Let me know what you would like to see next. All right. I'm done for today I'm gonna go outside and enjoy the sun. You probably should do the same And we will see each other the next time