How to create time lapse footage in Sony Vegas

[kingjen]

Like to consult advice on how to create time lapse footage in sony vegas pro. Besides the obvious step of speeding up the footage, is there another way to control the frame rate? Are there other softwares to create such effect well? Thanks.

[Alvin Ang]

Like to consult advice on how to create time lapse footage in sony vegas pro. Besides the obvious step of speeding up the footage, is there another way to control the frame rate? Are there other softwares to create such effect well? Thanks.

hi kingjen,

there's another way, by using a series of stills. but the most important part lies in the shooting, like what settings u used etc.

[kingjen]

Hi Alvin, thanks for your feedback. Yes, I should do it right at the shooting. Unfortunately, my video camcorder does not have the feature of continuous interval recording where I can set the recording time at preset interval. It only allows to set the recording time and then it stops and I have to manually start the recording again....urrh. So I am just thinking if there is anything I could do in post to create the same effect, other than just speeding or slowing down the footage in Vegas Pro. Perhaps this is the limit I can do. I heard of the software called istopmotion which allows footage to be captured at preset framerate. Any opinion? Appreciate all the advice and suggestions.

[VideoCobra]

Hello Kingjen,

i guess it would all depend what kind of elaborate time laspe you are thinking of doing and over how many hours.

i would say that iStopMotion2 more for clay animation and to pay for the pro version if you are dealing with HD.

speeding up for me if its a straighforward time lapse..

VideoCobra

[jaegersing]

Adobe Premiere used to have a stop-frame capture setting quite a few years ago. You could connect your cam to the PC, and Premiere would capture one frame out of every X frames, where X is specified by the user. Not sure if CS4 still has this function though. For sure, Vegas can't do it. Simple speeding up actually works very well, and gives you lots of control.

Richard

[kingjen]

Thanks VC and Richard, look like I have to work within the capability of Vegas pro and play with the speed to get the desired result. Once again, thanks.