Dear John thanks for your kind asnwer. Bit technical and will be thankful with the video. Looking forward for the same.

Regards.

Hi Anirban

Here is a short section of the timelapse video.

Better quality here

The original was made from 2900 still images taken at 5 second interval = 14500 secs = ~ 4 hours which when imported into MEP with a length of 1 frame per image gives a video 116 secs ( 1m 56 secs) long at 25fps.

HTH

John

HI all,

I've recently been experimenting a bit with time lapse -- having picked up an old digital camera [Minolta DiMAGE 7i]  that had interval shooting. As the camera's minimum interval was one minute I couldn't shoot often enough for smooth playback so I tried a little trick which seemed to help a lot for my peculiar case:

Each picture was imported at a three frame length and then a single frame cross fade was applied between each pair. The result is smoother than having the each picture displayed as is for three frames. Using a single picture for each frame made the film play way to fast.

Note1: Thank goodness for the 'Apply to all objects on the track' option which MEP offers for transitions!

Note2: I've since purchased an interval timer which plugs into my camera. Time between shots can now be set to fractions of a second and I can not shoot till the memory card is full rather than the camera's limitation of 99 shots at a time.

Regards,

Carl

Wow John what a lovely video.  Highly impressed and motivated. 

Thanks Carl for the suggstion. Can you please show me where do I get the Apply All Effect. 

Here is one output with the suggestions.
 

However one more issue came up: Is there any method in MAGIX through which I can import and edit the images (one frame each) in one single go?
To drag each of the 100 pictures (or more in future) and edit each to one frame is indeed tedious and time consuming. Kindly suggest an alternative? Or is there any timelapse software?
Here is the image for your kind reference.
Regards.

Under 'Program settings' (Y key shortcut)  you can set the number of frames (or seconds) for image import:

Regards,

Carl

Thanks Carl,
I have finally got the mechanism. Thanks. I am saved to use Timelapse softwares. Now can do timelapse with MAGIX. Thanks for the two tips.

However, these softwares have something called Stabiliser. Do we have any such with MAGIX because when I am doing a Hyperlapse with pictures, they appear jerky.

Regards.

Friends, I thank you all for the support for Timelapse video. All these days I was desperate to make a motion blur video (just like picture). It was not possible by shooting. But finally did it, just as we see in movies, with the help from MAGIX friends. Thanks John and Carl.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0dt5dh4urn7w4mb/Motion%20Blur%20Video%20%40%203fps.mp4?dl=0

Hi Anirban

Your movie is superb the stop motion / blur is very effective.

Did you use a time lapse trigger (or has the camera a built in timer) to take each shot?

The reason I ask is that there is some vertical movement in the video which I suspect was caused by using the shutter button to take the image or there is movement in the tripod - which make/model are you using?

John

Hello John thanks for your kind comment.
I simply used the camera in-built timer (2 seconds).  After every picture, waited for another five seconds and clicked another with the shutter button.
I am using Canon 100D.
Please do help me out with these movements and also some jerks.
Regards.

Anirban