Time Lapse Tutorial: Quicktime Pro

Tutorial on how to make a time lapse video from your cameras still images using Apples Quicktime Pro 7.

This is the techniques that I have used to make my Milky Way time lapse videos. Thanks for looking

[coleevictor]

Hey guy thank you so much for this help. Easy and quick. Bought a book and did not learn what I did from you in 4 mins. :)

[lesan]

wow...thats a really pretty time lapse

[CuriosityFilms]

This is an awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing! 

[albert]

ahhh thank u so much iv been trying to figure out how to do this for the last 2 weeks haha

[jamy]

Thank you so much for this tutorial :)

[vdjanand]

Great tutorial. Many thanks for sharing!

[artemorbid]

this is a great tutorial- really help me a lot- thanks for posting

[vanzolini]

Hi. Congratulations on your material. It's beautiful. I'm new to MAC and Quicktime. I have a set of timelapse pics shot in Montserrat viewing the volcano in the sunset hours. I want very much to make a video of this sequence of pics.

All I have is iPhoto and I don't know how to import sequence and select only the pics that I need from the "Montserrat" event. Is there anyway to easily import from an event in iPhoto to QT or should I create an album in iPhoto only with the pics that I need?

[HarlesGarage]

@WeShallNeverStop try Apple Intermediate Codec. I believe thats what iMovie converts imported footage to anyway.

[HarlesGarage]

@purvistv Yes these shots where taken out in the country with very little light pollution. Do a google search for Dark Sky Finder, it will help you find some dark locations in your area. Each shot is a 30sec exposure, ISO set at 3200. I was using the Canon 16-35mm f2.8 lens. Thanks!!!

[HarlesGarage]

@brindabellaoffroad Thanks, The Milky Way shots where 30second exposures, shot every 35 seconds. ISO was set at 3200, White Balance 4500K

[purvistv]

I'm assuming you're shooting these somewhere out in the country with very little light pollution? I'm in Los Angeles, and I would love to shoot something like this, but I probably can't without taking quite a drive. How long are you exposing each shot, and what type of lens do you use? Thanks, love the videos!

[SteveVeals]

Thanks for posting this Harles99. I'm having problems with my hero 2 footage in quicktime 7. It creates like a stutter/stop effect when I play it all the way through in quicktime 7 and this is even before exporting it to a pro res 422 LT file. I called go pro and they were useless as usual. Any thoughts? Many thanks in advance.

[purvistv]

@Harles99 Sweet! I'll have to try that. My 5D needs some TLC and a new reason to come out of the bag :-)

[FirearmFanatic]

I tried doing my first timelapse video today with my GoPro 960. I got the video together and it looked excellent...on Quicktime Pro. When I tried uploading it to youtube it only uploaded as"360p" instead of the usual "720p". Do I have to convert the format?

[HarlesGarage]

@chargerfun34 Haaa, Thanks, yeah it gets pretty hot. Its my old mac that I leave at my parents house, I'm ready for it to blow up so I can get a new one lol.

[TheoKavala]

Hey man, great tutorial.Just one question, The result of your video is something like 10 seconds.If i want to increase the time that the video lasts, what kind of change i must do? Change the frames per second? Something else? Thanks in advance.
Theo from Kavala, Greece

[stew]

I followed that process but when quicktime opens the file it just shows 3-4 seconds of black screen. Does that mean that quicktime is still compiling the photos? I which case should i wait a few seconds for the images to appear?

[SoccerShoos]

How can I get the time lapse faster than 60 fps?

[WeShallNeverStop]

What compression should i use if i'm using iMovie?