Time Lapse in iMovie 10.0.3

I have been searching for this answer for 2 days now and I cant find it...How do I change the speed of a clip in iMovie 10.0.3? In previous releases, I could doubleclick on the clip and the inspector window would pop up and I could change it there. Not so in iMovie 10.0.3. I can change the effect (crop) but I cant change the duration. I know I am doing something wrong but I cant for the life of me figure it out.

I agree with all of you who are irritated by how difficult it is to get to this setting -- if you compare the way iMovie has developed in recent years, it's clear that Apple is removing functionality more than it is making the user experience easier. I saw a Youtube video on how to do this in iMovie 9 and it's incredibly easy. Not only that, but you can get it down to less than 1 second per photo. I'd like to get to 0.1 seconds per photo. Can anyone help me with that, or is it impossible in iMovie 10?
Thanks!

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Time Lapse with iMovie 11

I was really hoping to be able to build a time lapse movie with iMovie 11. But, it looks as if it isn't possible. There are two big issues:
1. It would appear that there is a maximum number of 'clips' that iMovie 11 will accept. So, when importing still images, iMovie freezes at the maximum. I'm not sure what that miximum is, but it's somewhere between 500 and 1000. Does anybody know?
2. It would appear that the shortest period that I can allocate to an individual image is 0.04. So, each image lasts for four frames. It means that the effective frame rate for the time lapse is 6.25 frames per second (assuming a 25fps PAL movie).
It's so annoying. It was possible to develop time lapse movies with iMovie HD. It took a bit of messing around, but it was possible! I can't seem to find anyway to do it in iMovie 11. Anybody got any suggestions?

Thanks. I'll look into getting Quicktime Pro ... although I was hoping to take advantage of iMovie so that I could interweave time lapse footage with standard footage.
I did manage to come up with a workaround, but it isn't particularly elegant.
I found that I could import around 500 still images without a problem. Before importing, I adjusted the project properties so that Photo Duration was set to 1 and Initial Photo Placement was set to 'fit'. I then dragged the images to the project and they imported. Once they were all imported, I adjusted the clip properties so that the clip duration was 0.04 (the shortest duration I could get it to accept) and made sure that I checked the 'apply to all clips) box.
I now had a string of 500 images at durations of 0.04, and I exported this as an HD quicktime movie.
I then tried to do the same thing again, but found a weird anomaly and iMovie wouldn't import clips. On a hunch, I deleted the project. Exited iMovie. Emptied the trash. Restarted iMovie. Opened a new project, and tried importing the next 500 stills.
It worked!
So, it's a bit of a fuss, but after each import of 500 stills, I exported an HD movie then deleted the project, emptied the trash, and started a new project.
Eventually, I'd got through 1,799 images.
So, finally, I created an entirely new project, and imported the four movies that I'd created. I imported at 'full' quality to try to avoid as much degredation as possible. I was then able to bring the four movies into the new project, speed them up (x4) and I've got a half-way decent time lapse.
It isn't perfect, but it does provide a method of using iMovie 11 to generate time-lapse segments within broader movies.
I will try Quicktime Pro too.
Does anybody have any suggestions for best export settings from Quicktime so that the time lapse could then be imported into iMovie 11?

GoPro stills for a time lapse in iMovie??

Hi,
I have about 400 photos that I took with my gopro on a timer and have a cool time lapse....if I can figure out how to do it.
I am using iMovie 10.0.2 and have the photos in my library. How do I put the clips into the movie so I can show them and the time lapse?
Thank you in advance.

You need iMovie 06.
(it's a free download for iLife 08 owners)
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html

True time-lapse from stills

There's been at least one post on this, but I have not seen any resolution.
I wish to import a few thousand stills created with my Sony HDR HC3 shot at 1 still per minute (or 10 minutes). I'd like end up with a HD movie, 30 frames per second, with each still providing one frame. Importing through iMovie HD gives various results. I try to "apply" 1 or 2 or 3 frames to each photo, but end up with 9.29 seconds per still photo. Basically, the media/photo import in iMovie seems designed for movies with embedded stills, not time-lapse. Is this the way to make true time-lapse in iMovie HD (6.0.2)?
If iMovie HD can't do this, is there other software that will package stills into HD video format at this fast rate?

Karl,
After thanking you and reporting that your suggestion for importing stills at 1 frame per image worked well, I find today that I can't get it to work again! Today I still get the imports set to 9.29 seconds each. Once this morning an import came in with 2 frames duration. In all cases, I selected a previously imported clip whose duration had been set the way you suggested to 1 frame. So this variable behavior makes me think that the KB code may be more buggy than just the text box.
Just to be sure I'm not misunderstanding you...I'm using File/Import command, and iMovie is in the "Clips" mode. The selected clip with the 1 frame duration is selected in the clips bin before importing a new still.
I feel a bit silly reporting that a computer is producing variable results, but it seems to be, and I'm no neophyte to computers.
Any ideas?
Paul
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Time lapse issues in iMovie 10

I would like to embark on a time lapse movie with existing jpegs (shot through a surveillance camera). I am unable to locate the transition time feature in iMovie 10... I notice it was quite easy in version 9 according to youtube tutorials. Can anyone help?

I've been trying to do something like this, too. I found a blog entry that seems to show how, but I can't get it to work.
Briefly, I can import the images into the movie project (I used an iPhoto album, but I suspect that importing files from a directory is just as easy), select all of the images in the timeline, then use the Adjustments Bar's "Info" tab (click on "Adjust", then the circled "i" at the upper right) to set the duration for all of the images. Unfortunately, I can't set the duration to a value less than 0.5; I'd like to use something like 0.1.
I'm going to try exporting, re-importing, then speeding up the play rate (as mentioned in the linked blog), but that seems unnecessarily tedious.

How to make a time lapse video in iMovie using a point and shoot camera?

I recorded an approx. 45-minute long video on my Canon point and shoot digital camera, then imported it on to my computer. (The file format is .MOV)
Now I would like to turn this video into a time lapse, of about a minute or two long. I know that iMovie HD has a time lapse feature, but it seems to only be for camcorders?
How can I import this .MOV file and turn it into a time lapse?

Kirk, I think Nancy wants to just take a frame from her video every minute or so, so that the 45 minute video runs for, say, 45 seconds.
I don't think she wants to "speed it up" and make it run at breakneck speed, but wants to put together frames taken at a particular interval ..e.g; one frame per minute.
I'm sure you know how best to do that using QuickTime. Any suggestions?
(..Otherwise, Nancy, choose a point in your video - using iMovie - about one minute into the video and then use 'Create Still Frame' (or ShiftApple'S') and make the new still frame just a few moments long ..repeat through your 45 minute movie. Drag all those 45 stills together and you have a time-lapse movie. You could make each of them one-and-a-half seconds long, and apply a half-second Cross Dissolve between each of them. You'd then have a less "stuttery" and smoother time-lapse video..)

Does the time-lapse feature in imovie work well?

Hi, I just got a gig to produce a time-lapse video covering the changing light on a building from dawn until dusk. I work in Final Cut Express, but have heard that imovie has a time-lapse option; i.e. you can set up the Capture to only grab 1 frame out of every 30. Does this work well? Can I come out of my camera with firewire into a laptop into imovie and just capture onto the hard drive without running tape? (Otherwise, I don't know how I could record 12 hours continuously).
Thanks for any input.
Bob

Found some info re: time-lapse recording with iMovie:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10320325&#10320325

Time-lapse iMovie

I'm trying to create a time lapse movie using a lot of stills, I imported them all into iMovie but it has added a transition between each image that causes it to zoom in and out between each still - how do I get rid of this?

Are you using a project theme? If so, don't. When you create the project, did you check "Automatically add"?

Time-lapse still photos to IMovie???

Greetings.
I have a Nikon D2x that will shoot time lapse photography. I tried a test of 30 images (one second of video). So I have a folder of JPG images which I then resized to 640x480 at 72dpi.
At first I tried to import these stills into IM just by dragging and dropping my pictures into the clips window to the right of the viewer. It took a while for these to "render" but when they finished, I placed a few of the images in the time line.
I pressed play, thinking that each photo would show for 1/30th of a second, but what happened instead, stayed on the first photo, did a pan out, and then went to the next photo.
My question, (and maybe IMovie is the wrong app for this) is how do you take a sequence of still photos and have them play each for 1/30 or 1/24 of a second so that I can see the out come of my time lapse photography?
Thank you for your help.
Jonathan

how do you take a sequence of still photos and have them play each for 1/30 or 1/24 of a second so that I can see the out come of my time lapse photography?
The easiest is to use QuickTime Pro ($30, from Apple). It lets you import a series of images to a movie, creating just what you want. You can tell it to import the images at 30 frames per second or any duration you want.
It can be done in iMovie too, but there are some hurdles. One is that iMovie lets us import a photo with a duration no shorter than 3 frames per second (shown as 0:00:03).
But there is a back door. See this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3210397
I pressed play, thinking that each photo would show for 1/30th of a second, but what happened instead, stayed on the first photo, did a pan out, and then went to the next photo.
That happened because the Ken Burns settings in the Photo Settings window were set to zoom in. Turn off the Ken Burns checkbox and import the image as a still instead of an animated video clip.
Karl

IMovie '11, still images as frames for time lapse problem

As strange as this may seem, I cannot find a way to change the stills I import to just be 1 frame each in iMovie '11. That is, I have 30 still images (a time lapse) that I want to put together for a 1 second sequence (i.e. 30 frames per second). The slowest I can seem to get is down to is 1 frame per second which gives me a total time of 30 seconds, which makes it useless.
Are still images able to be set to 1 image per frame? Am I missing something?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
-Matt

You can do this in iMovie but it is quite cumbersome.
Long-time contributor Jon Walker created this Video Tutorial to show how to do this.
The Tutorial is for iMovie 08, but I verified that it still works for iMovie 11.
There are better tools for Stop Motion, including iStopMotion and QuickTime Pro. After doing it in iMovie, you may see why.

Is time lapse recording back in iMovie '09?

iMovie HD (v.6) had a built-in time-lapse recording function that would use your webcam; it was pretty cool. iMovie '08 got ridd of it for some inexplicable reason, does anyone know if it's back?
Thanks =)

It's a fairly hard-core feature (but I guess so is green screen) so hardly surprising it didn't make it in to the 'new' iMovie.
For now, would this help?
http://gawker.sourceforge.net/Information.html
(haven't tried it but it looks like it fits the bill)

Are there file size restrictions when utilizing the time lapse feature in iMovie?

I am attempting to compile several hours (10 to be exact) worth of video footage from a Go-Pro that I would like to condense into one time lapsed video using iMovie. After modifying the speed for the clips (31 total individual clips) my computer is unable to play back. I end up "beach balling" and waiting for the processed clip to load for an undetermined amount of time --so far only resulting in the program 'not responding', pressuring me to have to force quit iMovie altogether. (The icon on the clip itself updates to depict the 'fast forward' rabbit, and the physical clip size does shrink to lead me to believe that the time lapse successful applied). If the clip does play to begin with, it is very quickly
Any advice on how to achieve hours worth of video footage without using other programs? I've tried speeding each individual clip with time lapse one by one, but adding even two of the 20 minute clips crashes the program.
any assistance or advice is extremely appreciated.
Hardware/Software:
Aug 2014 MacBook Pro, with OS X 10.9.4, iMovie version: 10.0.3

Try VLC Media Player. It has a reputation for playing just about anything you throw at it.

I have an image sequence in JPG and when I select open image sequence, select all does not work and I can only highlight one frame at a time. I want to import these frames into QT7 to make a time lapse clip. Any suggestions

I have an image sequence in JPG that I want to import into quitck time 7 for making a time lapse clip.   It has an option to open the image sequence, but when I do, it only lets me highlight one frame at a time. The select all option seems to do nothing when I click on it trying to highlight all the frames.
      If QT7 is not designed to perform this function, is there another alternative?   iMovie is non intuitive for this kind of operation and I cannot find a clear tutorial for using it to make time lapse clips from a sequence of still frames.
       The tutorials Ive found on YouTube are well intended, but they all seem to leave out a vital step that eludes detection.
Anyway, any help appreciated.
Thanks
   I am new to this forum and I'm not sure I can locate this thread again once I'm out of it.
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Yes, I tried that.   The files were ordered by their original numbers as imported from the camera, but I batched them through Phocoshop to downsize all of them into a more manageable file size.   I opened that destination folder from quick time from where it said select image sequence.   I clicked on the first one and opened it.   The result was a large image with an arrow indicating a movie was ready to go.   When I pressed the arrow, though, I realized it had only imported that one frame so there was no movie.   The files are Jpgs and are about 450 KB each.
    To your knowledge are there any links to iMovie tutorials or quick time tutorials that may address this situation? Maybe there will be one I haven't looked at yet.
    Thanks

Creating a time lapse

I imported video from my newly bought HD video camcorder and was wondering if anyone out there knew how to make a time lapse from the video, as in speed up or down the time in which the video was taken. Just wondering if there is a way to do this in imovie rather than final cut.

I imported video from my newly bought HD video camcorder and was wondering if anyone out there knew how to make a time lapse from the video, as in speed up or down the time in which the video was taken.
Time lapse and fast/slow motion are different effects. In any case, no, you cannot really do them from within iMovie '08. You can either is iMovie HD here, or create the motion effects externally using an application like the JES DeIntelacer.
TUTORIAL 001: JES DeInterlacer
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Creating a time lapse from a video

Is there a way in iMovie 09 to discard frames in order to create a time lapse from a video that has already been shot? I realize that the normal way to create a time lapse is to assemble a group of stills into a video. What I'm looking for is sort of the other way around. If this is not possible in iMovie, does anyone know of other software that can do this?
Thanks,
Bob

Yes. For example, you can set the speed to 800%.
Also see [this article in MacWorld|http://www.macworld.com/article/143736/2009/11/speedimovie_video.html?lsrc=rssmain]

Time Lapse in iMovie 10.0.3

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