In this tutorial you’ll learn how to edit
a time lapse video in Adobe Premiere Pro. Hey guys I’m Criss and welcome to Eye Stocker. As I said in the intro, today I’m gonna
show you how to edit a time lapse video using Adobe Premiere Pro. It doesn’t matter what device did you used
to capture the time lapse sequence, it can be a smartphone, a GoPro or a professional
DSLR. As long as you used a specific interval to
take the shots and you used a tripod everything should be perfect in the end. Before starting to edit a time lapse sequence
I want show you a cool time lapse calculator which I embedded on my website. It’s from Photopills.com, I find it very
easy to use if you want to plan your time lapse before going on location. Let’s say I want to find out the event duration
or how much time do I need to shoot photos to obtain a 15 seconds time lapse, at 30 fps
at a shooting interval or a time interval of 2 seconds. I can also enter here the size of a single
photo, so let’s say I will shoot with the GoPro 4 and that means 12 mb/photo. And here are the results: I will need to shoot
photos for 15 minutes, I will have 450 files which will take up 5.27 gb on my sd card. So… this is helpful information guys, feel
free to use this tool, it’s on my website and you can find the link down in the description. Now let me open Adobe Premiere, I use the
Creative Cloud version and I will import my whole photo sequence which was shot on my
GoPro 4 Black using the Photo Time Lapse mode. This allowed me to edit each photo individually
in terms of contrast, saturation and white balance. I made this thing using Adobe Lightroom, so
if you want me to make a tutorial on that as well, just give me a thumbs up and if this
video reaches 200 likes as soon as possible, I will make that tutorial for you guys. So, when you open Premiere, it will ask you
for a project name. I will write time lapse, then hit ok. Then you click on new, sequence and from here
I will open HDV and choose the 1080p, 30 fps preset. So now, in this new sequence you will import
your time lapse shots, and you can do this in 2 different ways:
The easiest and the most convenient way is to right click inside the project area, choose
Import, browse to the location with the photos, you select the very first photo and you tick
this box here confirming that this is an Image Sequence. And then you just click on Open. Premiere Pro will take all those shots, stitch
them together and create this single file here, which you will drag then to your timeline,
yes… keep existing settings. The resolution of the sequence is 1080p but
the my photos are much bigger than this so I need to adjust their size. I select this single element here, right click
on it and choose Scale to Frame Size and this should automatically solve the issue. Keep in mind that the photos that I am using
in this sequence are already adjusted to an aspect ratio of 16:9. But if you have problems with this, you can
go to the effect controls panel here, if you don’t have this just go to Window – Effect
Controls. And you have this scale option which you can
adjust to make sure that you don’t have any black margins, like this for example. I will go back to 100% scale now. Ok so this was the easy way, now I will show
you the harder way. Sometimes when you will try to import your
photos by checking this box, you’ll see that Premiere will not bring in all your frames
so now I will show you another method to import your time lapse photos. Right click, Import, select the first photo
from the sequence, press CTRL+A to select all the shots, and then click on open. It will take a while until Adobe Premiere
will import your time lapse shots, this will depend on your computer speed. When it’s ready, you will see that you’ll
have a bunch of photos here in the project tab, I have for example 671 files here, including
the sequence file, so a total of 670 images. You can see that every image has a number
here 4:29. This means that if I drag this single image
onto my timeline, it will last for 4 seconds and 29 frames. But I don’t want that, because every single
photo from here should last 1 single frame. So click on the first image, CTRL+A to select
all the files here, then hold down CTRL and deselect your sequence, we will only work
with the images. Then right click on one of the photos and
choose Speed/Duration. Make sure you edit the numbers here exactly
like I do now and by this you are telling to the software that every photo will last
1 single frame. Then click OK and you can see here that the
value is changed for every photo and the duration of each file is 1 frame. The next step is to click on this list view
to make sure that your photos are ordered correctly, otherwise the time lapse will not
appear in the right way. Select the first frame here, scroll down to
the end of this list, hold down SHIFT, select the last frame, you don’t want to include
the sequence, only the photos, then scroll up, and drag all the frames on the timeline
by dragging the first frame with your mouse. After you made this step you will see a dark
block here but if you zoom in, you will be able to see every single frame, so all the
frames are placed one after another. While being here you can press CTRL+A to select
all the frames, then right click on one of them and choose Scale to Frame size. As you can see here, the frame looks good
and we can check a preview just to make sure we made everything in the right way. So this was the second method. Now I will show you how to render this sequence
even if you used method 1 or method 2, it doesn’t matter. I will go to File – Export – Media, or simply
press the CTRL+M shortcut to open the render dialog box. I will choose H.264, then as a preset I will
choose the HD 1080p 29,97 fps. I will tick this box to use the Maximum Render
Quality and also Use Previews. I will untick the Export Audio option, choose a name
for my render, click save and then click on Export. The file is rendering now, I will speed this
up, and let’s open the file now… so here is the time lapse I have just exported. This is my method of editing a time lapse,
if you want to see how I prepaired the raw frames in Adobe Lightroom, as I said in the
beginning, please like this video and when it reaches 200 likes, I will make that tutorial
too. Until then, please consider subscribing. Don’t forget to follow me on twitter @eyestocker,
I’m Criss, thanks for watching and see you in the next one.