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I had no idea iMovie could do time lapse until yesterday. I’m reading my email and I notice a message from Vimeo saying that someone has left a comment on one of my movies. I check it out and it’s from a guy in Germany. So I click on a link to his clips and I see he’s done a time lapse movie using his MacBook’s built-in camera and iMovie. Well, I didn’t know you could do that. So I Google ‘iMovie time lapse’ and find an article on MacWorld’s website that tells how to do it. I launch iMovie and sure enough there’s a time lapse option in a little pull-down menu next to the camera import button that I hadn’t noticed before. You can set how many frames you want skipped. You can even set it to show a date/time insert in the lower right corner. Cool.

After making a sample movie, I exported it as an MP4 file and uploaded it to Vimeo for conversion to Flash. I then downloaded the Flash version and uploaded it to my blog’s server. I’m using the Wimpy WASP player to play the FLV file on a web page and this post uses an iframe tag to display the HTML page in a frame.

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