Timelapse with Sony Z1u

Hi,

I have a Sony Z1u HD and am looking for a capture software program in order to record timelapse clips.

anyone?

Thanks,
Hans

Don't you need a special time-lapse camera for such things?
And It strongly depends on the speed of the time lapse.
If you need to record something that takes a long time, you van use a photocamera, and otherwise you just need to record it and time-lapse it with your software.
Regards,
Jip

...a year later...

Does anyone has a solution for this?
Other than a photocamera etc?

I am looking for a software program that can capture footage directly from my attached Z1u onto my laptop

I know there are programs out there for DV but I am looking for something similar for HDV

Hi Hans,
Check out Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Is your computer a PC or Mac? I don't believe your Z1U can time interval record so you'd need to record enough footage to be able increase the speed of your playback for just a few seconds of video
Premiere Pro CS3 is $799.00

For those of you who have camcorders that can do interval recording 3o seconds off and .5 seconds on will give you 18 frames of video. You'll then take the first frame of each segment to make a time lapse video.But you'll not enjoy going though 500 sements or more for a few segments of video.

Jason

Almost every editing software can capture right from the camera, so you don't use tapes. The problem is - you need a lot of harddisk space. And the distance between your computer and camera needs to be small.
With capturing in editing programs, you capture at 24 fps (or other) for timelapse you don't need this, but you can't differ the fps when capturing.

Then you've also got some timelapse applications, which capture one frame p/s or less (per minute, per hour). Just google around for these apps. I've got one for the mac; gawker, but the problem is that the quality is low.

Thanks for all your comments.

Yeah, I am looking for a software application that I can run on my laptop, connect met Z1u to the laptop and capture one frame p/s or something like that onto my harddrive.

I've got a pc laptop (vista)...

Any suggestions?

Thanks again!

anyone?

You can record directly to you harddrive with the new Adobe Premiere CS3, I heard from a guy who uses it.
Hope it'll help...

Try these...

http://www.gbtimelapse.com/Product_gbdeflicker.aspx

Not used them but they look interesting.

Apparently Adobe On-Location (Windows only, so I don't actually use it) will capture input frames intermittently, so you don't have to capture the whole period and later speed it up; you just capture the frames that you'll eventually use.

Standard definition is a little easier to deal with since the Apple QuickTime APIs will let you do programmatic frame grabbing. I've had good luck using QuickTime with http://www.processing.org/, but you have to know a bit about programming to make it work.