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.

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Thanks for any input.
Bob

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

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.

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..)

VF0770 - Time lapse issue

Hi,
can someone help me figure out my issue with time lapse recording in Creative Live! Central 3?
I have no problem to capture normal video, but time lapse capturing is not working as expected. Doesnt matter what period of time I choose to capture. It always create only a small wmv file in destination folder. The lenght of video is around 1-2s only even if I select 30min or 1hour.
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•JPEG is a highly compressed image format.
•DV PAL is a highly compressed video format -never more than 720x576 pixels. Your images are being renderd to this Timeline setting.
•When you view the Canvas in Final Cut pro, it always shows you a low res proxy image to better enable real-time playback.
Solutions:
Use TIFF or PNG images if you have them.
Render the Timeline.
Choose a higher res codec in FCP such as DVCPro or ProRes if your computer and FCP version support it.
View the output of Final Cut pro on a calibrated, broadcast quality monitor to see how things really look. An excellent quality consumer TV will go some way to giving you a idea of the quality if a broadcast monitor is not within your budget.

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?

Time-lapse videos

Is it possible to create time-lapse videos with iMovie?
The images would be imported from iPhone 4 with time-lapse apps such as iMotion HD, Timelapse, Gorillacam or single images made with the normal photocamera.
Thanks for support!!

It is possible, but iMovie is not designed for this. I would not use iMovie except on a very short project.
Better tools are iStopMotion or QuickTime Pro.

Capture Time Lapse from Canon HF100

I just bought a Canon Vixia HF100 camcorder. I want to connect it to my Macbook and record some time lapse footage in iMovie HD 6.
How can I do this? The camera doesn't have firewire support.

I probably am not the most qualified to answer this post but wanted to weigh in on this. I have done an enormous amount of research prior to purchasing my Canon HF100. First I got the camera but did not purchase the sd card at the same time so I sat there like a kid at christmas with a new toy and no batteries. Finally the card arrived 2 days ago. I wanted this camera because I needed better quality video over the JVC HDD. With everything pointing to AVCHD and everyone touting the quality and speed I thought this was my best move. 30 minutes of FXP video takes over 1 hour to import into iMovie08. I am not impressed with the video quality and do not know at this moment why the video, not the audio, freezes on playback in Quicktime or iMovie. If I could go back to the old school tape I would. Maybe I will change my mind in the next couple of days and if I do I will post it back here.

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"?

Dust spot issues with time lapse

When batch processing images for time lapse jpeg exports the spot removal tool there come moments where high contrast transitions become messed up due to the the section of the dust spot tool that is selecting and copying from being different than the location of the actual spot being corrected. This can resulting in circular flashes where the removal takes place when running the time lapse. I was wondering if anyone has found a way around this, or if there are any settings that can be adjusted via the spot removal options? I've tried several settings, including attempts at exposure radial gradients (instead of the spot removal tool) with little luck. The only sure method I've found is going and moving the spot placement to another section of the image frame by frame. This can become extremely time consuming.
Any assistance or advice on this issue is appreciated.

Unfortunately when shooting hundreds to thousands of images for time lapse work, dust spots crop up constantly no matter how often I clean the sensor. Dust rattles off of the inside of the camera onto the sensor all the time during sequences. Lower fstops (a larger aperture) usually only make the dust spots larger, albeit slightly lighter in opacity, but more difficult to remove due to the area they take up. They are darker when shooting at small apertures, but they are smaller, and somewhat easier to deal with when batching spot healing.
Was hoping there was some setting with the spot healing brush I wasn't aware of. Perhaps I can nag the developers to figure out a more complex algorithm that goes through each still in the sequence and automatically moves the spot healing repair selection point to a more suitable portion of the image when copying batch settings to the entire sequence...similar to what it does when doing each image individually. Can't be that much more work...perhaps it will take a bit of time to run through hundreds of images, but it's better than the hours it takes to work over a single sequence by hand.
Thanks for the reply though.

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

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)

Time-lapse and Image Sequence issue (Possibly also Frame-Rate)

So I'm in the process of making a time-lapse, and have batch edited and exported (in jpeg) 627 images. My sequence settings are 23.976fps 1920x1080 (1080p). Doing some quick math, 627 images at 24 frames a second should give me a little over 26 seconds. However, I'm only getting a 20 second clip. The settings on the clip are 29.97fps and 5184x3456 (I scale it down and use some keyframes to add some motion.) So my question is is there a way to import an image sequence as 24 fps, rather than the default 30 that the clip is imported in? Even when I put it the clip on the timeline and click "Keep sequence settings" it cuts it down to 501 frames, and I still only get 20 seconds worth of clip. Thank you for your answers!

I am in PAL land so I not that familiar with ntsc but I think the difference has to do with the 23.97.
If you make a custom sequence you can set that to 24 fps exact.
Import the jpegs as an image sequence. this means select the first image, check image sequence at the bottom of the window and hit OK.
Also in the preferences under Media set the Indeterminate Media Timebase to 24.

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