>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
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