Making Movie from pictures

Hi,

I took 400 pictures (5 minute time interval) from clouds with my digital
camera. Now i need to assemble them as a 15 frame per second AVI movie file.
I am looking for automated way to take all 400 picture from a folder and
build the AVI file.

Is Movie Maker 2 right tool for doing that? If it is not what tool is the
right one?

Thanks,
Ali

PapaJohn
Tue Aug 26 09:48:12 CDT 2003

With MM2, you could do a drag and drop of all 400 pictures into a
collection, as a batch. Then sort them in the collection by name - I assume
they are sequentially numbered from the camera.

Then set you frame duration option to the minimum of .125 seconds (1/8
second). Select them all in the collection and drag/drop them onto the
storyboard. That gets you 8 fps.

Save the movie as a DV-AVI file. Then import the saved movie and apply the
speed-up double effect to the clip - it would be playing at 16 fps - if
that's close enough.

PapaJohn


"A.M" <IHateSpam@sapm123.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I took 400 pictures (5 minute time interval) from clouds with my digital
> camera. Now i need to assemble them as a 15 frame per second AVI movie
file.
> I am looking for automated way to take all 400 picture from a folder and
> build the AVI file.
>
> Is Movie Maker 2 right tool for doing that? If it is not what tool is the
> right one?
>
> Thanks,
> Ali
>
>

PapaJohn
Tue Aug 26 10:01:46 CDT 2003

I assume you mean 15 pictures per second, not necessarily 15 fps in the
playback movie file. But you can do the 15 fps also if you need to.

PapaJohn

"A.M" <IHateSpam@sapm123.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I took 400 pictures (5 minute time interval) from clouds with my digital
> camera. Now i need to assemble them as a 15 frame per second AVI movie
file.
> I am looking for automated way to take all 400 picture from a folder and
> build the AVI file.
>
> Is Movie Maker 2 right tool for doing that? If it is not what tool is the
> right one?
>
> Thanks,
> Ali
>
>

A
Tue Aug 26 10:35:21 CDT 2003

Thanks for answer.

What is the standard frame rate in regular TV movies ?

Thanks again,
Ali


"PapaJohn (MVP)" <PapaJohn@CharterMI.net> wrote in message
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> I assume you mean 15 pictures per second, not necessarily 15 fps in the
> playback movie file. But you can do the 15 fps also if you need to.
>
> PapaJohn
>
> "A.M" <IHateSpam@sapm123.com> wrote in message
> news:OFILcz9aDHA.2928@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I took 400 pictures (5 minute time interval) from clouds with my
digital
> > camera. Now i need to assemble them as a 15 frame per second AVI movie
> file.
> > I am looking for automated way to take all 400 picture from a folder and
> > build the AVI file.
> >
> > Is Movie Maker 2 right tool for doing that? If it is not what tool is
the
> > right one?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ali
> >
> >
>
>

PapaJohn
Tue Aug 26 10:58:17 CDT 2003

Digital video is usually 30 fps in the US and 25 fps in Europe. Movies at
the theater are 24 fps. Television in the United States is 60 frames per
second, but with each frame showing only half the image. It gets pretty
technical and my numbers are not exact, but it doesn't seem like you are
concerned about how many frames per second the movie has.

I assume you want to show 15 changes in cloud position per second -
regardless of the movie's fps.

PapaJohn


"A.M" <IHateSpam@sapm123.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for answer.
>
> What is the standard frame rate in regular TV movies ?
>
> Thanks again,
> Ali