Sorry no catchy title this time around, but I will tell you how to create a time lapse video.  It is fairly simple, but the skills you learn in this tutorial can be used for any of your videos.  First off there are two ways of doing a time lapse video.  The first method, which is the method I used, is to use the time lapse function that is available to use in an Iphone running IOS 8 or higher.  This makes this assignment super easy, all you have to do is to find a safe place to put your Iphone and then set the camera to record and use the time lapse feature.  Then it just becomes a waiting game, you do however need to leave the phone plugged into an outlet and check on it ever now and then in case it falls over which mine did.  After you are done recording then it is all a matter of uploading the file to the internet which I think you can handle.  Below you will find a link to web page telling you about the time lapse function and how to use it if you would like some more guidance with that part.

http://iphonephotographyschool.com/ios-8-time-lapse/

Now that was the super easy way, however not everyone has an Iphone so here is the part ya’ll need to pay attention to.  Don’t worry it will be fine, I’ll take you step by step.

1. You need to obviously take your videos, but keep in mind a few things when you do.  Such as you should try and stand in the same spot and hold whatever you are taking the video with at the same angle too.  Also remember YOU don’t need to take every video, ask for help if you need to.  Lastly this is just a general tip for video taking, longer videos are better you can edit out the parts you don’t want later.

2. Next is to upload your collection of videos to whatever computer you will be doing the editing on.

3.  The next step is to import your videos into a new project in the video editor of your chose.  I suggest using videopad, it’s free, fairly user friendly, and what I’m basing this tutorial off of, but feel free to use what you are used to.  To do the actual importing, you should first create a new project, which you can do by clicking the file drop-down at the top and clicking new project.  Once you are in a new project go back to file drop-down, chose import, and import your videos.  Do this as many times as need.

4.  Now it’s time to put your videos together.  As you can see there are usually three major areas.  One area holds all your imported media, another shows a detailed view of the media you have selected in the first area, and the last area holds your actual video you are creating.  You first select one of your uploaded media in the first area and do your editing in the second area.  For this assignment the most edit you will do is clipping out section of your videos.  You should see two brackets in the second area, they represent the beginning and the end of your video, so just play around with those and choose what section of you video to add to your final project.  A few extra tips is to go through the videos in the order you took them and to keep them all about 2 seconds long for a nice flow.  Once you picked the section of your video you want to add, look for a button that says something like “place clip on sequence”,  when you do that the program will add the clip you choose to your final video.  Repeat as many times as need.

5. Once you are done editing you need to make one last choice, audio or no audio.  If you don’t want audio you simply need to go down to your video sequence and mute the audio sequence of your video.

6. You are almost done, all you need to do is to export your video.  To do this go back to the file drop-down and choose export.  If you don’t know what you are doing just make sure you are exporting the video as an .mp4 file and leave everything else at their default values, if you do know what you are doing then why are you reading this you know what to do.  Just make sure you export it to a location that you can find on your computer.  Once that is done then so are you, and so is this tutorial enjoy you new time lapse video.

Below you find my time lapse video created using the Iphone method and a link to the assignment that this tutorial was originally created for.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/time-lapse/