MOVIE FROM JPEGs CREATE A MOVIE FROM YOUR STILLS

Produce an animation from the stills shot with your camera’s intervalometer setting

Once you have shot your manual time-lapse sequence, transfer the frames to your computer via memory card or Wi-Fi. You may want to adjust some basic exposure settings before you put your movie together; Photoshop and Lightroom offer batch-processing tools that enable you to apply edits on one JPEG file to all the others, saving you heaps of editing time.

When you create your movie in Photoshop, you’ll need to experiment with the time duration of your frames, until you find the sweet spot between the movie feeling smooth and it not ending too quickly!

1 Compile your JPEGs

Separate the JPEGs into their own folder. In Photoshop, edit the exposure on one JPEG while recording the steps as an Action, then use File > Automate > Batch to apply the Action to the other JPEGs. You can also batch-edit images in Lightroom.

2 Create a layered stack

Go to File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stacks, and select all your edited JPEGs in your folder. This will create a single layered file from your images, ready to work on in Photoshop.

3 Animate the frames

Now go to Window > Timeline. Click the Create Frame Animation button; if it’s not automatically selected, choose it from the dropdown menu. Click the flyout menu in the top-right of the Timeline Panel and select Make Frames From Layers. Set up your frame timings under the frames; I chose 0.1 second per shot. Click Play to view the animation looks and make adjustments until you’re happy.

4 Render your time-lapse video

Once you’re happy with your animation, you can create your movie. Go to File > Export > Render Video. Very soon afterwards, you can enjoy your timelapse video! With a little practice, you can soon master the art of filming and processing timelapse videos. Don’t forget to send us your best time-lapse movie via