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California/Bay-Area/Peninsula/2007-03-18-los-trancos/full-set click here to view/download the 7MB movie Monte Bello Open Space across the road where I made a time lapse movie of the fog rolling in and the drive back home. The furthest peaks are Mt. Umunum on the left then Loma Prieta, epicenter of the big 1989 earthquake. Notes on technique I used Irfanview to quickly batch the jpegs down to 640 wide, VirtualDub to make the jpegs into .avi movies, for something more complex, make each sequence a separate movie & use Windows MovieMaker (WMM) which comes free with winXP's SP2 to arrange them and clip the ends as needed to get the timing right. You can't get WMM to compile jpegs except at like 1 frame per second. I'm sure there are simpler paid software solutions, ProShow Gold is one, this is a free way to do it. CoolEdit is not free if you need to fade out a song for a short movie. VirtualDub can add sound too I think but you'd have to guess the timing. I used a Nikon D200 with built in interval timer function, 4 seconds seems to work for most clouds, 2 seconds for fog or sped up freeway driving, one second for a winding road, I do 15 fps, well Windows Moviemaker turns it into 30fps. On this one, I chose the WMM compression to fit in 7MB and it reduced the width to something like 300pixels but there are many options. CoolEdit is good for fading the sound out at the end to match and free Windows Moviemaker to assemble the bits, refine the timeline & add titles & credits. About 1,500 frames. Note, for VirtualDub you need to rename the files in a perfect sequence (no gaps), I use Adobe Bridge or ACDsee for renaming 001 002, etc then open the first image and it opens them as a movie, then be sure to set the frame rate and compression/output format/codec both are in the Video menu, I chose the last codec in the list Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 and save as AVI. Other formats work with some variation, I'm not saying that's the best one, it turned 18MB of jpegs into 1.5MB of video for example. The default uncompressed was 170MB without music! comment: Jan 2008, The version of virtualdub I'm using now lets you set compression after clicking Convert. Sony Vegas movie studio doesn't read the old files, so I had to redo for another video. - -3-18-07-los-trancos-Peninsula-Bay-Area-California - Paul Furman Photography

click here to view/download the 7MB movie

Monte Bello Open Space across the road where I made a time lapse movie of the fog rolling in and the drive back home. The furthest peaks are Mt. Umunum on the left then Loma Prieta, epicenter of the big 1989 earthquake.

Notes on technique

I used Irfanview to quickly batch the jpegs down to 640 wide, VirtualDub to make the jpegs into .avi movies, for something more complex, make each sequence a separate movie & use Windows MovieMaker (WMM) which comes free with winXP's SP2 to arrange them and clip the ends as needed to get the timing right. You can't get WMM to compile jpegs except at like 1 frame per second. I'm sure there are simpler paid software solutions, ProShow Gold is one, this is a free way to do it. CoolEdit is not free if you need to fade out a song for a short movie. VirtualDub can add sound too I think but you'd have to guess the timing.

I used a Nikon D200 with built in interval timer function, 4 seconds seems to work for most clouds, 2 seconds for fog or sped up freeway driving, one second for a winding road, I do 15 fps, well Windows Moviemaker turns it into 30fps. On this one, I chose the WMM compression to fit in 7MB and it reduced the width to something like 300pixels but there are many options. CoolEdit is good for fading the sound out at the end to match and free Windows Moviemaker to assemble the bits, refine the timeline & add titles & credits. About 1,500 frames.

Note, for VirtualDub you need to rename the files in a perfect sequence (no gaps), I use Adobe Bridge or ACDsee for renaming 001 002, etc then open the first image and it opens them as a movie, then be sure to set the frame rate and compression/output format/codec both are in the Video menu, I chose the last codec in the list Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 and save as AVI. Other formats work with some variation, I'm not saying that's the best one, it turned 18MB of jpegs into 1.5MB of video for example. The default uncompressed was 170MB without music!

comment: Jan 2008, The version of virtualdub I'm using now lets you set compression after clicking Convert. Sony Vegas movie studio doesn't read the old files, so I had to redo for another video.

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