@DrAchoo: No, the 50D and the 5D2 don't have what Canon calls an intervalometer. I just tripped the shutter every once in a while (sometimes with a 2-second delay so I could be in some frames), or had my kids or wife trip it. I tripped it more often when the kids were hamming it up for the camera. Maybe next time I'll connect it to a computer and have the Canon software do that intervalometer function (I think it can do that).
@Kelli: it wasn't really very taxing on my patience; what do you think would be hard about doing this?
@Robert: yeah, that's a good idea; I marked the floor for the tripod, so maybe I'll add a few more frames still...
@DrAchoo: No, the 50D and the 5D2 don't have what Canon calls an intervalometer. I just tripped the shutter every once in a while (sometimes with a 2-second delay so I could be in some frames), or had my kids or wife trip it. I tripped it more often when the kids were hamming it up for the camera. Maybe next time I'll connect it to a computer and have the Canon software do that intervalometer function (I think it can do that).
@Kelli: it wasn't really very taxing on my patience; what do you think would be hard about doing this?
@Robert: yeah, that's a good idea; I marked the floor for the tripod, so maybe I'll add a few more frames still...
Tripping the shutter! LOL! Resizing that many pictures, culling the ones that don't make the cut, etc. I'm sure it took time.
What type of software do you need to do one of these?
Quicktime 7 for creating the movie. Select File, Open Image Sequence, and it will make a movie of all sequentially-numbered files in that folder (you just select the first one). You'll be prompted to select a frame rate (how many frames per second you want to have).
Resized down with Photoshop (used the Image Processor and an action).
Put it together (some editing and adding the music and text) in Final Cut Pro.
Tripping the shutter! LOL! Resizing that many pictures, culling the ones that don't make the cut, etc. I'm sure it took time.
Sure, it took some time after getting the captures, but you can connect your camera to a computer or use a remote to control the shutter releases. I used Photoshop's Image Processor and an action to downsize the photos, and actually used all frames for the movie, and of course duplicated some frames when I wanted one to appear for a longer duration.
