My new camera has an elapsed time photo function, which I decided to try out this weekend while I was working on the family room. Set up on a tripod in the corner (out of the way) I had the camera taking a snapshot every five minutes. After an hour or so I changed it to snap one every two minutes. Afterwards the photos were downloaded into the mac, a little photoshop processing, and then thrown into the following mini-movie.
Click the dog to start downloading and playback (it may take a few moments). Once the full movie is downloaded you can even grab the timeline bar and drag it for a REALLY fast completion of the project!
You'll need Quicktime (free: windows & mac) to play the video (or you can grab iTunes which includes quicktime).
The audio is from Green Day. Fitting because I recently bought their American Idiot (iTunes link) release. If there's any soundtrack to the new family room it would have to be that album, I've listened to it dozens of times while working on the family room and on the furnace room project. The song in the video is from an earlier album. I was thinking of using Jesus of Suburbia from the new album, but chickened out.
Here's a youtube version if you really don't want to use quicktime (and don't mind lower quality and less control).
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Cool! It's coming along. The Roomba was a nice touch. ;-)
How did you create the movie from the photos?
I dropped them into Final Cut Express. I originally started using iMovie, but it defaults to a static image duration of five seconds (and no preference to change it like FCE has) and I wanted it to be much shorter, like a quarter of a second or so. Given the number of pictures I would have had to manually change the duration of in iMovie I took the path of least resistance.