time lapse 60 D to integrate with EX1R

[Mark Bolding]

I have a possible job coming up where I will have to do time lapse with my 60 D and a couple of EX1R's. The Sony's are very easy to shoot and edit time lapse but if I get an intervalometer for the 60D what is the best frame size in stills mode I should use that would work well with the 2 EX's? I will be posting in FCP 6.

Thank You

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[Stephen Hill]

In my experience its not so much what frame size you choose to shoot in. Its more relevant on what you export the timelapse sequences to. I have no experience with the EX1R but if its shooting in 1080 you would simply export your timelapse as 1920x1080 and the appropriate frame rate.

[Ben Giles]

My workflow:

Shoot the timelapse stills as big as you can - JPEGS full quality, unless you're happy to convert hundreds of RAW files. This will give you additional scope to "pan & scan" across the timelapse movie as the JPEGS will be bigger than your timeline resolution - you can do a good job most of the time just using FCP's motion controls.

To create your timelapse movie:

Use Quicktime 7, import files, point it at the first image (they will all be sequential from the 60D) and instruct it to import as image sequence. Don't resize the resulting movie window! Then export it as a self-contained MOV without any resizing. You'll end up with a 5K (or so) self-contained uncompressed MOV - usually fairly large, but bring that directly into FCP and resize/add nodes to suit - that way you get the benefit of timelapse plus the ability to add pans and scans.

Ben.

[Mark Bolding]

Thanks for the replies; I appreciate the import notes as well. The job postponed, but in the meantime my intervalometer has arrived so I will do some tests to see which frame size works best next to the EX1's. I think the option to do moves with hi res images is interesting but not sure how it will cut with the Sony's.

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