I am having trouble creating a good time lapse video from still pictures. I have taken 300 pictures via the interval timer mode in the Nikon D5500 camera. There are two problems, 1 quality is not as good as I think it should be. Not my main issue. Main issue is the time lapse video plays in a reverse sequence. I thought that might happen as the first image loaded becomes the last image. The total process takes about 5 hours to complete. The process I am following, saw in two YouTube videos is: 1. Load 300 pictures from camera to computer. 2. Open pictures as layers within Gimp - takes about 40 minutes 3. Convert Images: Image - Mode - Indexed. Set Dithering to Floyd-Steinberg - click convert. Process takes about 3 hours 4. Filters - Animation - Optimize (for GIF). Takes about 2 hours 5. Export: Give file name with .Gif . Tick box "as animation". Frame delay in seconds - take default. Check Use delay entered above for all frames.
Hopefully someone will see a step left out or reversed in order to get time lapse video in proper sequence. If not, maybe someone could recommend a good free piece of software that I could use instead of Gimp. I do not want to pay for software as I will not take a lot of time lapse videos, just want the ability and flexibility to create one when I find a good reason to. I have seen Chronolapse software which I will investigate if I cannot get Gimp to work for me. My computer specs are: Sixth generation I7, 3.4 GHz processor; 16 Gig Memory - I have allocated 12.5 Gig to GIMP, HHD hard drive. Via Task Manager saw the process is very heavy with Disk I/O - 95-100%; Memory usage - takes all I can give it. CPU processing only about 10-15%. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chuck Devlin -- cfdevlin01 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
