Im helping tape this documentary style video on LAN parties. We want to set up a camera taping the whole time. We dont have enough disk space to put 8 hours of vid onto the comp, so we were thinking of recording for like 1 min every half hour or something.....or taking a digital pic every 5-10 min.......any ideas? Pleas help!!

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premeire can capture timelapse. i'm sure there are others too.

they take one frame at set intervals. so you just hook your camera up to the computer right there at the event if you can. only problem is most consumer cameras like to turn off after five minutes without recording.

Stirling | Dueling the Fates @ Zomp

A solution that might help with the auto turn off feature found on a lot of cameras, is to eject the tape door and leave it open. I believe that overides the auto turn off.

Boddington,

How can you capture the film if the tape door is open? I suggest trying to turn off the "auto shutoff" feature, or, using premier, capture the frames manualy (file > capture > stop motion) Also, when pluged into the pc, many cameras automatically turn off the "auto shutoff" feature. Best of luck,

-Gaelan Connell

He means if you are recording directly to the computer, hence no use for a tape.

sry, my misunderstanding

most home cameras have an setting to take a shot between 0.5-2 seconds long every 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Once you get your time lapse, it makes it look nice to then speed up the whole thing, to make it more smooth. If it still needs more smoothing out, use a ghost trail effect as well.