Film/edit question - panning/zooming during a timelapse
Everything set to manual…....
This way you have total control…. NO awb, no aperture priority mode, no auto modes at all… all MANUAL ! !
You dont want to set your intervalometer to take a shot every 10 seconds if your shutter exposure time is say 12 seconds, It aint gonna work…. a 12 second exposure typically takes maybe 1-2 seconds to write to your card ( depending on what size your shooting at, and either large or medium jpg is pretty good ) so you would prob set your intervalometer to take a shot every 15-16 seconds.
If you want your clip to run for 10 seconds @ 25fps, you need to shoot a total of 250 frames with a frame taken every 15 seconds, which works out to be 4 shots per minute and that works out to be a total shooting time of just over one hour.. A lot of time to produce a ten second clip.
Time lapse is good fun, but you need lots of TIME on your hands to pull it off properly
Rod
I like advice for idiots and stating the obvious, it’s very amusing and sometimes informative. 
I never shoot anything but manual and my biggest gripe about my camera is I cant lock it on manual (more than once I’ve moved the dial by accident).
The concern was changing light conditions over (say an hour) period of time.
I really must get out and shoot some time-laps for practice. It just seems that the only time I get away from my laptop is when it’s busy rendering/exporting/loading or running maintenance-and the laptop is my intervalometer.
Glad I could help SPAZ 
Check this one out…
I have explored the idea of shooting time-lapse with a long time friend and talented artist who operates under the alias of NEVER (aka Never Satisfied) in Atlanta, Georgia. Never has been out of commission recently due to knee surgery followed by a nasty staph infection. While only partially recovered, he agreed to shoot for the time-lapse challenge. The artwork is titled “The rent is too damn high” and features a begging owl with droopy, drug induced eyes (prescribed pain killers). The inspiration for this creature came as a result of Never being in so much suffering due to his knee surgery along with his recent apartment hunting in NYC where he will be relocating later this month.
To complete the challenge, I built a team consisting of my business partner and co-founder @ UpThink, Erik Huber, along with fellow photographer Jeremy Stephenson. Michael Wynne generously volunteered his time to create an original piece of music for the project. Once we had the man power, all we needed was a safe location to capture Never. We picked a location in NW Atlanta at an abandoned warehouse that’s far off the grid. This spot has been a favorite of mine in recent years due to mysterious tire dumpers filling the space. It’s an environmental disappointment to know that all this rubber is being dumped by someone and I personally do not condone those activities. However, the vast sea of tires offered us a unique visual perspective for this project. To help portray the passing time during the day via visible light beams, we hiked into the location with a 1k generator and hazer. The visible light created by the hazer combined with the constantly changing wind flow through the space really brought the location to life. We shot bracketed RAW exposures, but steered away from using any HDRs in the final video in an effort to not get caught up in the overly tone-mapped trend amongst photographers these days. The bracketed exposures allowed us more freedom in post to create some variation within the edit. We shot with longer exposures (4-13 seconds) to emphasize the movement with motion blur. This side-project was a lot of fun for everyone involved. We did have a few technical issues during the shoot—such as getting our gas can (full of gas) stolen, the generator flooded mid-shoot, the 12v battery used with the Dynamic Perception dolly rig failed, and we ran out of light just as the artwork was being finished. Despite the minimal complications, we managed to finish the 45 second edit* and get it posted. - Doug Urquhart
Produced by The UpThink Lab for the 2011 Gizmodo Time-lapse Video Challenge
Photography by Doug Urquhart, Erik Huber, & Jeremy Stephenson
Artwork by MISTER NEVER SATISFIED
Original Music titled “Beautiful Mourning” created by Michael Wynne
Shot on a handful of Canon D-SLRs (5D MII, 7D, 5D, 400D)
Moco moves made possible with the Dynamic Perception dolly + TeleTrack pan/tilt head
Special thanks to PC&E Atlanta
Good info there. Thanks rider.
And spectacular footage
Really good footage and edit as well, loved it ! !
When sessions with Xavier de le Rue are over, Guido Perrini keeps his camera switched on and capture the beauty of nature. Enjoy a series of magical mountain timelapses with a delightful tune from DJ Ryzk a.k.a. No Bless.
Shot mainly on a canon 7d with a pclix intervalometer.
lenses, tokina 11-16 and canon 24-105.
The tracking motion is done using a metal thread connected to a tobin timelapse unit for an old 16mm bolex.
Thats awesome. And I’m gonna go for a beer….