Timelapse

ideomatic wrote on 5/2/2011, 6:46 AM
Hi everybody!

I'm experimenting timelapse with my reflex camera. I can produce several jpeg frames, and I'd like to put them on the timeline. Every jpeg has to be just 1 frame duration, but I can't find as to do this. I'd like to know if there is a way to set the duration by default, because it would be really hard to set it manually for each jpeg.

Thank you!

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/2/2011, 8:36 AM
As I show you in my book, the key is to first open Preferences (under the Options tab) and go to the Editing tab. Set the New Still Image Length to .33 seconds (one frame NTSC).

This will affect only the new photos you add to your project, so you may need to temporarily clear your photos from your Project Media panel and re-import them.

But, once you do, they will each default to one frame in length when you add them to your timeline.
Tim L wrote on 5/2/2011, 9:16 AM
I haven't done this myself, but I've seen the topic discussed many times on these forums.

If your photo filenames are numbered sequentially, Vegas lets you import a whole sequence of photos and treat it like a video file, so each photo in the sequence becomes one frame in your project -- at whatever framerate your project is set for (I think).

See discussions here, or search the forums for "image sequence":
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=747662

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=751836

Some of the issues are that your sequence has to be in numeric order, and Vegas will stop at the first "missing" number. For example, if you have 100 photos, but file XYZ-0058.jpg is missing, then Vegas will only import the first 57 photos, and won't jump to XYZ-0059.JPG.

If you have a misnumbered system you can use some kind of utility (outside of Vegas) to renumber all the files nice and pretty...

But like I said, I've never done this myself... Good luck, and report back here on what you find.

(Steve: In your example, the still image length would need to be 0.033 for NTSC... or 0.0333667 for NTSC 29.97 frame rate, if Vegas will take that many digits)
ideomatic wrote on 5/2/2011, 11:31 AM
I Tim, thanks for the advice, it's the right way for me!