Time lapse video editing software help

[snowwolf]

Hi all, I need to put together a large time lapse movie from a very large photo compilation, each photo taken at 5 minute intervals and will be approx 20,000 photos, can anyone suggest a good editing program for Windows OS that is fairly easy to use to build the time lapse ?

[Magic919]

Windows Movie Maker should do it as far as I can see.

[snowwolf]

Magic919 said:

Windows Movie Maker should do it as far as I can see.

Will it handle large amounts of data do you know, I don't mind buying as long as I know it will work ok, I did try wondershare but it does crash if you give it lots of data, which is annoying as it is a very easy program to use

[Magic919]

No idea. I've only ever made these videos using ffmpeg on a Linux box.

[Fubles]

Windows Live Movie maker is a free program already on Windows PCs. It's worked fine for me in the past on short timelapses but it's quite basic. I'f you've edited everything before hand and don't want to add any big effects it should be ok.

There are plenty of tutorials for it as well so it's worth giving it a shot.

[snowwolf]

I will have a look at windows MM cheers

[peter tdci]

Quicktime Pro can stitch individual images into a video as well. It's about £20 to upgrade the free player version, I think.

There are plenty of tutorials on the web e.g. http://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/compi...

[mike9009]

I have used Sony Vegas for doing some time lapse stuff - you used to able to download a free copy for 28 day trial (not sure now?)

I then bought a real copy for about £15 for a previous version.

I think it should cope with 20,000 images as long as your PC is capable!



Mike

[RobDickinson]

My timelapse workflow uses LRTimelapse and lightroom. Both are paid products but can handle big sets.

I've used WMML and its ok but a little poor and unstable, you are forcing it to do something it wasnt designed to do.