If you were taking a time-lapse movie with a conventional film camera, you would seek a camera that featured “pin registration”. A pin drops into a hole in the edge of each film frame, to make sure the image was recorded on a consistent location on each frame: result – a time lapse movie wherein the background is not jerky. You would also use an industrial strength tripod.
I have been taking a time lapse movie of a building under demolition, and then the reconstruction of a new building. I have taken some 300 shots so far, one per day, and it is getting near time to put the still images together into a movie clip. I’ve done this with a digital camera, no tripod, and test clips I have put together show (not surprisingly) slight changes in the focal point and also of the rotation – “up” is not quite the same direction on each photo.
What is the best software to use to edit these photos? There is a high contrast corner of a building in the foreground to use to align the focal point and the rotation. All I need to do is set one photo up as a background, then drag a semi-transparent copy of the next photo on top of the background, align it, and save it. Lather, rinse, repeat. Finally, I will have to enlarge them all a bit to eliminate the white edges that the relocation will create.
Advice as to the right software for this task?
TIA!
-Skip
I have been taking a time lapse movie of a building under demolition, and then the reconstruction of a new building. I have taken some 300 shots so far, one per day, and it is getting near time to put the still images together into a movie clip. I’ve done this with a digital camera, no tripod, and test clips I have put together show (not surprisingly) slight changes in the focal point and also of the rotation – “up” is not quite the same direction on each photo.
What is the best software to use to edit these photos? There is a high contrast corner of a building in the foreground to use to align the focal point and the rotation. All I need to do is set one photo up as a background, then drag a semi-transparent copy of the next photo on top of the background, align it, and save it. Lather, rinse, repeat. Finally, I will have to enlarge them all a bit to eliminate the white edges that the relocation will create.
Advice as to the right software for this task?
TIA!
-Skip
) and due to its age it is not 100% compatible with XP. And google reports several software houses selling it in the $50 range.
