I took a bunch of time-lapse still photos that I want to turn into a movie. I could use the Movie Maker (Ver2012 - build 16.4.3508.0205) software on my Win7 machine however, the problem with that is the minimum duration of any individual photo is 1 second. I’m looking for more like ¼ second each. The movie is too long & not nearly time-lapsed enough at 1 second/image.
Any suggestions for (relatively) inexpensive/free software that will do this &/or how to get around this in Movie Maker? As secondary items, I’d like to add a soundtrack & title/credits to it, which MM will allow but these are not necessarily deal breakers.
Did you try entering in the duration as a decimal? I didn’t have any problems doing that on 2011. I changed the duration to 0.25, and it worked.
If not, that same thing is supposed to work in PowerPoint, if you have it. You’d just use the pics as a background image for each slide, and not put any text on the slides. Then you can use PowerPoint’s “Create a Video” feature, being sure to set the slide time to 0.25 seconds. I’d probably just make the slideshow in PowerPoint, and then load the video in Movie Maker to add the music and credits. But I guess you could put the credits on a slide if you want, and try putting music on the first slide. This would mean you’d have to add the slide timing separately, or else the credits would only last 0.25 seconds.
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I did try that with whatever was the preinstalled version (2010? 2011?) on the box & it wouldn’t let me. I then downloaded the 2012 version & it looked the same so I didn’t try entering a decimal value again until you suggested it. It works in the 2012 version; I’m good now. Cool video & had the perfect song for it too!
Thanks!