Just a quick one today, no photo I’m afraid.

I mentioned a while ago a timelapse video I put together for the beginning of a fashion show, and would like to point out a much better method than I was using. The version of iMovie that shipped with my laptop is pants (and I believe that for some time Apple was offering a downgrade to those who needed features that had been removed), meaning you can’t fine-tune the duration of frames as you might expect to need to when making a timelapse.

mgdm from the ##photography IRC channel has a post on his blog detailing how to use the command-line on a Linux computer to put together a timelapse really efficiently. It’s so simple even I could manage to do it (after trying once and failing because mencoder wasn’t installed, but that’s another matter entirely!).

The timelapse I did to test this out was exactly the same as the Modo one, so I won’t bother re-uploading it. I will, however, be planning a few more for the future.

As part of my work with Modo this year, I set up my camera at the end of where the catwalk would be going up to capture a timelapse movie of the stage being constructed. The video was shot in a couple of batches (not my idea) over a couple of hours, with one frame every 30 seconds, compiled and inserted into the presentation at the beginning of the show as way of introduction.

Modo Fashion Show from Josh Blacker on Vimeo.

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