#ASTRO TIMELAPSE MANUAL#
#ASTRO TIMELAPSE SOFTWARE#

#ASTRO TIMELAPSE SOFTWARE#

If you are going to do lots of time-lapse videos you may want dedicated software to increase processing options. Pick your settings such as video size, frame rate and quality. Select File > Open Image Sequence > Navigate to the folder containing images. On a Mac you can use QuickTime to create the time-lapse. Depending upon the quality I’m looking to achieve the files are then processed out as JPEG or TIFF. Files will return to Adobe Bridge with those settings in place. After color and exposure corrections I press the Done button. Any corrections will be applied to all images the same. I use Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) for cleaning up my files. For more on that, see below.įinal video after rendering in Adobe Camera RAW, QuickTime and Screenflow Process Milky Way time-lapse files Longer videos will require more frames to be captured, or additional processing in another program. Rendered at a normal 24 frames per second, the final QuickTime time-lapse is nine seconds in length. My settings were set at 13 seconds, ISO 6400 and f/1.8. In this example, I made 220 exposures at 13 seconds each using an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III and an Olympus M.Zukio 8mm f/1.8 fisheye lens. Think about how long you want you Milky Way time-lapse to play. Set number of exposures and take a break while the camera goes to work.

Place the camera on a tripod, knowing that the Milky Way will be moving through the scene from left to right. If not, you can add an accessory intervalometer geared toward your camera from $20. Many cameras now have intervalometers built in. Set your white balance to daylight or a specific Kelvin temperature for the same reason. Using automatic modes can lead to inconsistent exposures leading to flickering which can be quite annoying when viewing the final time-lapse.

#ASTRO TIMELAPSE MANUAL#

Set your exposure with the camera in Manual mode. Get the exposure that will record the Milky Way and still leave you detail in the foreground. If you photograph in RAW, you can process your files to open up the shadow areas and tame your highlights if necessary. I recommend making your Milky Way time-lapse capture while shooting in the RAW format. A time-lapse is not hard to do and many computers have the software to create them that come with your computer’s operating system. Making a time-lapse of a scene is another way to tell a story.

Astro timelapse