Timelapse

[dallen24]

Hi. Just joined this board, hope someone here can help. I've been trying out some timelapse. Taking 30 second images, merging them 12 images/second into a video clip. So far so good. Now I want to try to keep a certain object centered. I'm thinking the composite tool, 2 point shift/rotate. Use one image as a base, shifting/rotating all subsequent images. So what settings should I use on the composite tool? I don't want to actually merge the first image with the second one, just use the first image for alignment to shift the second one. Any advice is appreciated.

[keithrj]

Welcome to the board. To answer your question, you need to use the "Register" operation and I would suggest you use the "One Point (Shift)" alignment mode. As you are doing time lapse I will assume you are using a tripod so there should be no rotation of the camera between images. If you want to rotate any image then use the "Two Point (Shift/Rotate)" alignment mode. The other Alignment methods allow you to stretch/squash the image to aligh multiple points.

[keithrj]

Welcome to the board. To answer your question, you need to use the "Register" operation and I would suggest you use the "One Point (Shift)" alignment mode. As you are doing time lapse I will assume you are using a tripod so there should be no rotation of the camera between images. If you want to rotate any image then use the "Two Point (Shift/Rotate)" alignment mode. The other Alignment methods allow you to stretch/squash the image to align multiple points.

[keithrj]

Welcome to the board. To answer your question, you need to use the "Register" operation and I would suggest you use the "One Point (Shift)" alignment mode. As you are doing time lapse I will assume you are using a tripod so there should be no rotation of the camera between images. If you want to rotate any image then use the "Two Point (Shift/Rotate)" alignment mode. The other Alignment methods allow you to stretch/squash the image to align multiple points.

[dallen24]

I'll try it. Thanks for the reply (3 times).

[keithrj]

Network hiccups and I got impatient and hit the buttons a few times which posted three time :-( No way to delete posts either :-(