How to Make a Video with Your Time Lapse Camera

 Getting the most out of your time lapse camera can entail being able to create some truly cool stuff. You just have to step beyond the manual a bit and get the cool things you can do with your digital camera and the editing software. 

We have all seen them in a TV show and a movie, those every beautiful shot where they speed up the time and capture a long time segment and shorten it to a short video. An instance is many of the TV news stations these days that have a camera that captures the weather of the day and then processes it to a 20-second clip.

Well, this method is not only a tool in the hands of the movie makers or the big TV stations. You can do this with your IR camera gear also.  I will go into a couple of ways that you can achieve this impact and get some really cool results for your upcoming video project. This one is certainly worth playing around with to get the right settings to get the most striking effect. 

Method number one is to utilize the time lapse camera itself to do the time lapse recording for you. Almost all digital cameras have the ability to do this type of recording. In a nutshell, it implies that you can set the time for which you want to record and the time that will pass between recordings and it will go to autopilot as long as the battery lasts or the tape runs out.  

You can also rent a camera to capture the path of the moon across the night sky. Most possibly you want to set the interval as long as you can record time as short as you can but do a test run first to check if it works.