I got several questions after my recent post about making a time lapse video, about which software I use compile the images into a finished video.
I have several steps I personally us, they might not be the most efficient but since I have some of the software already I don’t have to buy extra software. (I have not been able to find any decent all in one package)
Software:
- Image Ready CS
- VirtualDub
Step One
Download your images from the camera to a local drive. I found that since these images are typically nothing to do with my normal work flow and I tend to manually move them instead of using lightroom or canons own management tool.
Step Two
Image Ready – Open Image Ready and select the menu File>Import>Folder as Frames
Step Three
When the one image is loaded you can resize it to a more reasonable resolution 800×600 for example (you can do this before hand by using Photoshop actions which is much quicker but explaining actions is for another post)
Step Four
In Image Ready select File>Save Optimized File As and then save the file as a “.gif”
Step Five
Open the .gif file in VirtualDub
Step Six
Select the menu Video>Compression and then select your preferred compression method. (note: I normally leave it uncompressed for later use but if you select Divx it will give you a frame rate error)
Step Seven
Select the menu File>Save as AVI and name your video
Step Eight
With your finished AVI you can bring it into any video editing software to add music and to add additional movies etc.
Tags: AVI, Compile, Image Ready, Time Lapse, Tutorial, Video, VirtualDub
