[MacDV] Re: Time Lapse Redux

[Erica Sadun]

>At 10:47 AM -0600 3/22/03, William Hofius wrote:
>>Last week I led a group of students on a Habitat for Humanity 
>>project. Over the course of the week, I took some video of the 
>>house being built. Same location each time. 5 minutes here, 10 
>>minutes there. I was thinking that I could use this footage to put 
>>together a simple "time lapse effect."  My idea was to:
>>
>>1.) Import the footage into iMovie.
>>2.) Highlight each clip and speed it up in iMovie.
>>3.) Link the separate segments together with cross-dissolve transitions.
>>4.) Export the iMovie back to DV tape.
>>5.) Re-import the sped-up footage from tape.
>>6.) Use iMovie to speed up the video.
>>
>>I would then repeat steps 5 & 6 until I had about 30 seconds to 1 
>>minute clip.
>>
>>Would this work? Is there a better method for achieving the same effect.

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