With DanielR15 on this, I now use Davinci resolve for my Time Lapse pictures, mind you as my iMovie has audio clips and titles and a couple of transitions I like and know how to use I export it from DaVinci as a Youtube clip (.mov) and import it into iMovie to finsih off. If you are new to GoPro or video editing like me, you may find yourself getting stuck when trying to convert your time-lapse photo sequence into video using the like’s of Final Cut Pro or iMovie (if using a Mac of course). The time-lapse photo sequence recorded on the GoPro saves as a series of large photos, which can be up to 12MP each in. GoPro Studio is a multimedia app made to edit GoPro videos with simple features. The music, edit points, slow-motion effects and more have been dialed in - all you have to do is replace our clips with yours. IMovie is a very popular video editing software application designed by Apple Inc.
- Hi everybody, I'm pissed off, I wanted to film a blue marlin underwater, and had little time to my disposal. I had to react quickly I put the settings of my GoPro on video before entering the water, but the settings got changed after I jumped into the water, so the video was taken in time lapse mod.
- Step 2: Make time-lapse in video. Drag and drop your video to timeline. Then double click the video clip and a window will pop up for you to adjust the settings of video. Find the 'Speed' option and move the slider bar to adjust the speed. After that, click the 'Play' button to preview the result.
A few months ago, I picked up a GoPro Hero 3 camera and I recorded a few bike races on it. While playing with the integrated iPhone app, I noticed there was a time-lapse option so I decided to play around with it. After an hour of testing on a couple short drives, I tried it on two long ~9 hour drives going from Oregon to California and back. Here are the results:
Oregon to California: 9hrs of driving in less than 5 minutes from Matt Haughey on Vimeo.
Gopro Time Lapse With Imovie
SF to Oregon, 7,000 photos in 5 min from Matt Haughey on Vimeo.
A lot of people asked me how it was done, and what settings I used, so here’s a list of tips:
Gopro Time Lapse Imovie
- You’ll need a Hero 3 camera, and then for mounting on a windshield you also need the suction mount, the Frame mount, a mini-USB cable and a USB car charger to keep the camera powered up for as many hours as you need (the built-in battery only runs for 1-3hrs). The whole setup looks like this.
- Put as big of a storage card as you can into it. I have a 64Gb microSD card
- Pick your resolution carefully, the default is 12 megapixel, which become ~6mb images for every shot. There are also 7 megapixel and 5 megapixel options. 1080p video barely requires 1 megapixel images so you can go down in quality to get smaller photo file sizes (my time-lapses were shot with 7 megapixel Wide settings)
- Pick a duration between shots. For me, I picked once every 5 seconds because that would require about 7,000 images for the whole trip and I could only fit about 10,000 images on the 64Gb card. If I went down to 1 second or 2 second increments, it would have looked smoother but required lower resolution images or a bigger storage card (also the resulting movie would have been 2-5x longer in the end)
- Before you start driving, check the mounting angle and view through the iPhone preview of what the camera sees (don’t forget to “flip” the image since the camera is upside down). When you’re ready to drive, start the time-lapse with the your chosen settings (you’ll lose the live video preview at this point).
- Periodically check the GoPro using the iPhone app every hour or two. Make sure it’s still got power, and enough storage space, etc.
- When you’re done, stop the time lapse and connect the GoPro to a computer.
- I used GoPro Studio 2.0 to process/create video. You import the shots from the GoPro’s card and it will build a movie. I went into advanced settings to reduce the resolution to 1080p at 24 frames per second. Convert your videos to this format and they will be smaller than the full resolution movies.
- GoPro Studio has editing features on the next pane of the app but I found it buggy. Instead I simply imported the outputed movies into iMovie, added music and put titles over sections to point out things happening.
- WISHLIST: I really wish there was an easy way to grab the timestamp from each shot and put it in the corner of the video, but in hours of research I can’t figure out any way to display a real-time clock of the time-lapse (every second of video equals 2 minutes of time passing) using either GoPro Studio or iMovie.
Can You Make A Timelapse On Imovie
That’s about it, get to time-lapsing!