Time Lapse

[William Hofius]

It is not very professional, but...

I made a time lapse effect by using a dv camera to record 5 minutes of 
video every hour on the hour for 8 hours a day over the course of 4 
days. I took the 160 minutes of video and imported this into iMovie. I 
dragged all of the clips into the time-line and sped them up using the 
speed feature. I exported this from iMovie to a DV file. I imported 
this DV file into iMovie, dragged the clip into the time-line and sped 
it up. I repeated this export/import process until I had compressed the 
footage into about 2 minutes duration.

Everyone who saw the final product was impressed, but there were some 
flaws. Unfortunately I did not use a tripod. Every time I hit the 
pause/record button on the camera, it shifted slightly. My subject ends 
up jumping around a fair bit. But it worked.