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The Enthusiast's Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques
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The Enthusiast's Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques

by Alan Hess
September 2016
Beginner
152 pages
4h 47m
English
Rocky Nook
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45. DO THE MATH

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THERE IS SOME math involved in creating time-lapse videos, but don’t let that scare you off—it isn’t very complicated. The basic concept is to decide how long you want your final time-lapse video to be, and then determine how many individual frames you will need. Then you can work out the amount of time between each frame based on the number of frames and the length of the event you are shooting. Remember, time-lapse photography compresses time so you can watch an event that takes hours in just minutes or even seconds.

The first part of the math problem is to figure out how many frames you need in your movie. This is based on video ...

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