Apple Training Series iLife ’06

Lesson 6. Making a Time-Lapse Video

Lesson Files

Lessons > Lesson06 > Start_Timelapse_Project6

Lessons > Lesson06 > Finished_Timelapse_Project6

Tools

iMovie, camcorder (optional), iSight (optional)

Time

Approximately 90 minutes

Goals

Set up and shoot a time-lapse video

Edit the video in iMovie

Use an iSight camera to get video you can use in iMovie

While it sounds like a film you’d see in a seventh-grade science class, a time-lapse video is just a small variation on what you do anyway with a video camera: that is, compress real time into something more convenient and interesting. Officially, a time-lapse video is one shot of a slowly changing event, such as a flower blooming, that you speed up through photographic or editing tricks. This lesson ...