Time Lapse Troubles...

Hey guys,
     I'm a student and am getting into some more serious editing. I've been working on a snowboarding edit for this season however am having some troubles with my timelapse.
                    - Ok to start I would like to clarify, what would be the best program to create and edit a time lapse?
                                    I have photoshop cs5.5 extended, along with premiere pro and after effects.
                   - My next question is if Photoshop is the case, why is my sequence exporting in such a low quality?
                                   Basically I upload my 2500 11 MP pictures with a frame rate of 59.94 and an exporting settings of:
                                  After an hour of exporting I get a low quality 13 Mb mp4? Such as:
                                                                        (I did do HD cropping 1920 by 1080 px)
                    - What would be the best exporting settings for the work flow?
                             I have tried multiple file types however the only file that had relatively good quality was the .MOV. From my understanding that was just because they are not compressed files and                              the fact the final out put was 17 GB. I figured I would use an mp4 H.264 because that is what my camera (GoPro HD Hero 2) records in, and i figured that it would be the best format                              for later editing in premiere pro so it fits together. long story short what would be the best file output, for high quality and later editing.
                    -What is the difference between the multiple .mp4 file types etc.
                              For example in the video settings menu of the exporting settings there is Mp4 then Mp4 (ISMA) and then basic, improved, H.264 and so on.
I believe thats about everything. Thank you so much ahead of time. I Apreciate it verry much. Thanks
~Brian

I think you'd do better asking in the Premiere Pro and After Effects forums. I understand that a common application for constructing a timelapse vide is Quicktime Pro, but After Effects will do it.

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Time Lapse in Photoshop elements 10

If someone could be so kind as to help with doing timelapse in Photoshop elements 10 from step one to finish. I have listened to youtube and researched on internet and still having problems? Help
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Is this Barbara Brundage, if so it is my pleasure to have an email from you. I have just received your book "the missing manual". Thank you for the answer I will look it up in "the missing manual" manual. Greg
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Time-lapse flicker unchanged after Color Stabilizer

I shot a sequence of still photos of a cluster of roses blooming in front of a blue screen for creating a time-lapse clip, my first time to try that. I have an NTSC-sized comp that fills the frame nicely with just one of the roses. As expected, there is flicker due to imprecision in the camera's aperture, and the rumor is that AE's Color Stabilizer effect should fix that. I have Keylight to key out the blue, and also TimeWarp to speed it up because the rose took longer than I thought to open (although that's optional, as I can just make the clip at its original length and speed it up in PPro when I combine it with backgrounds), but I made sure to put the Color Stabilizer below those other effects in the timeline - that should mean it is applied first, right? The Color Stabilizer in is "Brightness" mode, and because the rose's petals move, I put the "Black Point" on the blue screen. But it still flickers - it doesn't look like there is any improvement over not using the effect at all. Am I doing something wrong? Naturally, if the Color Stabilizer was being applied after Keylight, it wouldn't work because the background would already be erased, but I think it should be applying it first. If I have to put the Black Point on some part of the rose, I will have to chase it with a bunch of keyframes, and it may still not work right. Recommendations?
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