How to Create Time-Lapse Video

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Get ready with your camera

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And your tripod

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Go to your subject

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Set-up your camera on your tripod

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Decide what will be your time interval between pictures

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Now, take youre photos

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After taking your photos upload them in your computer

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Open Windows Live Movie Maker

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I have 1800 photos of my subject waterfalls

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I took the pictures at approximately 2 seconds interval

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Click here to upload your photos

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This appears

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Click inside the box here

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Then on your keyboard press ctrl A to select all the 1800 photos

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Click Open

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Yey! My photos are in

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Click Edit under Video Tools

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This appears

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Since my subject is waterfalls

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I will use 6fps - six frames per second

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to make my subject appear smooth rather than jerky

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This box shows the duration in seconds per picture

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The duration in seconds shows from 1 to 30

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I will be using six frames per second for my subject

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So my movie will be approximately five minutes long

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To compute the duration per frame

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Go get your calculator

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1800 frames divided by 6 frames per second

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That gives you 300 seconds

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The duration per frame will be 300 seconds divided by 1800 frames
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That gives you 0.16666667

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Put the duration here

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This is the duration of my movie

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If you want to add music, click Home

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This appears

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Click Add Music

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I choose Waterfalls by TLC

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The music title appears here

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To add a caption text click here

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Enter your caption text here

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Enter the text duration here

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This is how it looks like with the music and caption text

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Music and caption text is optional but its nice to have them
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To save your project click this

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This appears

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Click Save Movie

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Click Recommended for this ptoject

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Great! Now you know how to create time-lapse video

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Go! Upload your movie to Youtube

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Photo Credits
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