TIME LAPSES

Time lapses are great to spice up your video pieces and are fun and easy to do.
First you need to familiarize yourself with the TC-80N3 which is the intervalometer controller here is a good blog explaining the basics: How to use the TC-80N3
After you have shot a series of images you can put them together in QT7 here is a video that explains the entire process: How to make a TL with the TC-80N3 controller and QT7pro

Here are some examples from the Prism Project:

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this is shot with the Hero HD camera which we have in our availability, this setting is the interval still shot mod, with a frame captured every 5 seconds

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Pre-Post Production - Organizing

There are several steps you must go through in order to delver the footage to the editors.
Here are the basic steps
- organizing:
please select the and organize each story into the following categories:

VIDEO:
- interviews
- B-roll
- TL: Time Lapses

AUDIO:
- Ambient Sound
- Interview Recordings

Quicktime X - Trimming - Pre-Edit

- Selecting your shots:
- Select the videos that you want to use in your cut and trim off the unesessary footage. The easiest and fastest way to do that is to do it with Quicktime 7 pro or QuicktimeX.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to trim in Quicktime X
- QTX pro:
All new apple macs have Quicktime X its installed by default. QTX is great but QT7 pro allows you to do a few more things so it is cool to have that too here is a couple of examples of trimming in QTX
Examples:

another video explaining how to trim in Quicktime X

another video explaining how to trim in Quicktime X

another video explaining how to trim in Quicktime X

Quicktime 7 Pro - Trim - pre-edit - Copy - paste

As I mentioned previously QT7 pro is great for doing quick rough cuts with your video clips. It allows you to quickly trim, cut, copy and paste clips together. You can use short cut keys like "command" + "i" for in points on the time line and "command+o" for Out points on the timeline.

here is a short example of how to trim edit and stitch together a string of clips into a rough cut:

How to edit in QT7 Pro. Get the 20$ upgrade for the pro version it lets you put in and out markers on the timeline of the clip and then you can cut copy and paste, giving you the elementary elements of editing and trimming

Naming your files

Once you have trimmed all the clips you must rename them so as to help with categorization. Its good to include WS (wide Shot), MS (Medium Shot), CU (Close Up), XCU(extreme Close Up)
so for example lets say you have 4 shots of a scene of Lynda sitting in a cafe. you would name the files something like this:
Linda_cafe_WS1.mov
Linda_cafe_MS1.mov
Linda_cafe_MS2.mov
Linda_cafe_CU1.mov

- this will help in the editing process. If this is confusing to you rule of thumb is name files from the same scene with a similar name so as to be able to recognize them

Phew we are almost done...!!! I have tried to keep only the essentials here so that you can focus on working on your stories.