Infill frames for time-lapse photos/video: I have some old time-lapse series that I did some years back when I first got interested in doing time-lapse photography. Because I shot...

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

I have some old time-lapse series that I did some years back when I first got interested in doing time-lapse photography. Because I shot using a coarse interval of 2 minutes or so, the resulting videos have a jerky effect. Are there programs out there that will infill/interpolate between the existing frames to generate a smoother look. There are programs that will allow me to interpolate/morph still photos so I can infill that way but that appears to be time consuming. I have a iMAC that I mostly use and an older Windows 7 machine.

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

I wonder how time re-mapping found in most video editors would work? Adobe's Premiere Elements and MS Movie Maker 2012 have this capability. There are probably other video editors that might help smooth things up as well. But I am not sure if that would help in your case. The duration of the video would change using this approach.

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

don26812 wrote:

I wonder how time re-mapping found in most video editors would work? Adobe's Premiere Elements and MS Movie Maker 2012 have this capability. There are probably other video editors that might help smooth things up as well. But I am not sure if that would help in your case. The duration of the video would change using this approach.

Thank you for the helpful response. I found that Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects with some add-ons will do what I want. I researched my query to on how to make a slow motion clip from something shot at a faster rate and they can interpolate and make infill frames. I was originally looking for programs that would interpolate/morph the still photos with no success, so I will try the video route.

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

Hope it works out.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Depends on how many photos make up a set. You can try a film dissolve transition between a few jerky frames just to see if it works.

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Bobspez wrote:

Depends on how many photos make up a set. You can try a film dissolve transition between a few jerky frames just to see if it works.

Thank you for the idea. I am not familiar with the video editing products that are out there, but some looking has me convinced that manipulating a video is preferred to trying to infill still images.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

I use Premiere Pro CS6. The film dissolve is under transitions. Good luck.

hpucker99 wrote:

Thank you for the idea. I am not familiar with the video editing products that are out there, but some looking has me convinced that manipulating a video is preferred to trying to infill still images.