Pre-captured Time Lapse Photos

[T@tster]

I have experience with Windows Movie Maker, but I just recently upgraded to Adobe Premier Elements 4.

I have previously captured 2000 sequentially ordered photos (0 to 1999).
I took one every ten seconds for just under four hours.
I am trying to make a video with a length under four minutes... a compression of time video

I tried to make this project with my former software (WMM) but there simply were too many photos... it crashed before opening them all.


I have two problems:

The first is that I cannot seem to restrict the length of each photo automatically
The second is that the photos are put into the time line in reverse order


Under general preferences/settings I changed the still image default duration to "1" and then re-imported the photos, but this didn't seem to change anything.


Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[Forum Troll]

If you can't get that to work, here is another way you might try. It requires Quicktime Pro. Open Quicktime, then click FILE -> OPEN IMAGE SEQUENCE. It will then open all your images sequentially. You can specify the amount of time you want each image displayed (with each image being a frame). If you choose 15 frames per second you can get a total runtime of about 2-3 minutes. You can then click FILE -> EXPORT and save it as an AVI or Quicktime file. You can also specify the resolution, like 720x480 or 320x240 for example.

[T@tster]

Thank you, that sounds like a viable solution. Still... If anyone else has any ideas on how to remedy this inside Premier Elements 4, please let me know.