# Turn time lapse still pics into a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505 "2016-08-30T20:44:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/1 "2016-08-30T20:44:12Z")
Can anyone steer me to software to turn a folder full of still pics into a single movie file. U want to take pics on a timer second by second, and then show them as a time lapse film. Pics are in jpeg format, ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/2 "2016-08-30T20:47:10Z")
I use Final Cut Pro, but there are some open-source programs that do this. What platform are you on? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/3 "2016-08-30T20:50:10Z")
Windows. Can you name me one of the open source ones too? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/4 "2016-08-30T21:01:49Z")
Picasa’s movie tool has a “time lapse” transition option (Google discontinued Picasa, but it’s still available on a few download sites). You can vary the image display rate in the clip from 1/6th to 1/30th of a second. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/5 "2016-08-30T23:54:17Z")
You should already have Movie Maker on your machine. I’ve used it a number of times if you have ?s ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/6 "2016-08-31T01:18:54Z")
My usual no-money choice is VirtualDub. Retro-looking, but frame-accurate and pretty good with BMP or JPEG file sequences. There are many variations of VirtualDub, but the ones I use don’t have the proper components to make modern video (MPEG, MP4, etc.). Typically I use VirtualDub to generate a raw, uncompressed, gigantic AVI file, then process it with another tool to convert it to a modern, compressed format. ---
**Author:** ![Kiwi\_Fruit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiwi_fruit/32/12_2.png) [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-time-lapse-still-pics-into-a-movie/764505/7 "2016-08-31T03:00:27Z")
I use Quicktime 7 Pro. It will do exactly what you describe. However, I use it on my iMac. Apparently Apple doesn’t support QT on Windows any more. It’s a shame as that feature is very handy to make time lapse videos.