Time Lapse Tips In Digital Video Editing
If you are a movie buff or are just simply amazed by the wonders of tricked-out films, here is a simple technique that you can easily do if you ever happen to get off that couch and do some personal recording and digital video editing by yourself. A simple technique to start of with is the time-lapse effect. The time-lapse effect is a technique used in scenes where characters and events speed up considerably or run in slow motion.
First off, you need your basic film making software. Then you have to digitize the raw video of the scene you wish to time lapse into your computer then import the clip into a time line. Select the desired clip by right-clicking it and choose your editing option (duration, speed, etc.) This is where you change the speed of the clip by adjusting it a couple thousand percentages from the normal speed. For example, if you wish to compress an hours worth of footage into just mere minutes, simply increase the speed of the clip to around three or four thousand percent of normal. Wait for the software to process the command as it renders the clip at the higher speed.
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After rendering the video clip at the new speed, do some double-checking and play the movie to see if you are satisfied with your initial output. Deliberate if you want to readjust the speed settings to make your time-lapse scene look better. You might want to compare your work with the usual time-lapse scenes seen on TV or in movies and try to match the speed of your film with those.
The next step in the process is to cut and splice it depending on how you want the speeded up action to come out. If you are time lapsing several times in one recording, you might want to create different settings depending on the scene. Some short scenes require longer time than others do. So you might want to double or triple the speed of the clip (for example, you have a footage of your little brothers and sisters jumping all over the backyard - increase the speed to make it look like they are mad-hopping all over the place with frenetic energy. The time-lapse technique is an excellent way to capture the growth of a plant or the construction of a building over the course of days, weeks or even months. You can do this by setting up your camera in exactly the same place at the same time each day and record for as long an interval as you wish depending on the requirements of your film. Any video-editing program can help you achieve this neat trick. Whatever it is that you wish to capture, the time lapse is a handy technique that is well appreciated by most viewers you can use time and again.
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