DIY: Automatic Camera Part Two
By Jakob Griffith on Mar 9th, 2009 at 9:06PM
Last weekend I demonstrated a quick and dirty way of making your camera take a picture every couple of seconds/minutes. Unfortunately, The cheapness of the camera I used corrupted my SD card and lost all the pictures I had taken for the project. This week, I’m back with a new SD card in hand and a guide of taking all those (in my case, 400) pictures and making it into a short movie.
The video tool I used is simply Windows Movie Maker (WMM) with a couple of settings changed. First, open up WMM. You should be presented with the standard view, with “movie tasks” on the left, your movie on the right, a time line at the bottom, and a blank section in the middle. At the top, click Tools > Options > Advanced, and set the picture duration to 0.125 seconds (the lowest possible), then hit OK.
Next, I simply clicked and dragged all 400 pictures down into the timeline. You can choose to export your movie now or add some intros, credits, transitions, music, and etc. You’re done!
My ‘work of art’:
