Time lapse question

[Daminator]

The miniDV camcorder I'm about to get can only record time lapse sequences with a +/- 6 frames margin of error. I'm an animator, so this seems quite poor to me.

The only way I can think of overcoming this is to record 2 seconds (for example) of footage per image I want, then get an application to only import one frame every 50 frames. This should, in theory, give me just one frame per 'shot', but does anyone know of a package (of other way) that can import every 'nth' frame?

I have premier, but can't see anything like that in there.

Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

Hi, me again. There is a program called AviSynth. It has a function called SelectEvery(), where you tell the program which frames you want to use. And AviSynth can be used with Premiere.

[Daminator]

Thanks again Tommyknocker, that sounds like something that would have been of use to me many times in the past!

So could I use this tool will the video direct from my camcorder, or would I need to capture it all to my machine first?

[Tommyknocker]

It is used after the video is transferred to your computer. Since computer animation is your "bread and butter" so to speak, you may find AviSynth has some very powerful functions.

[daamon]

I know that this is an old thread, but I came across it while I was looking into how to shoot / produce smooth looking time-lapse footage. There's very little on this site, but I saw this...

The only way I can think of overcoming this is to record 2 seconds (for example) of footage per image I want, then get an application to only import one frame every 50 frames. This should, in theory, give me just one frame per 'shot', but does anyone know of a package (of other way) that can import every 'nth' frame?

...and it reminded me of a setting that I recently noticed in WinDV: "Every N-th frame". If set to 25 (for PAL) then, with PAL having a frame-rate of 25fps, you're recording 1 frame per second direct from your miniDV cam.

That's the theory... I'm gonna have to try it out now.

[JohnnyMalaria]

The Enosoft DV Processor can capture from your DV cam with a time lapse function.