Time Lapse Movie
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.
Let’s try an iFrame
Ok, let's see if I can use the iframe tag.
Click the little white arrow to play the video.
This is Andy Frank givng a short physics demonstration. The video file is stored on the Breeze server at Chemeketa Community College and is embedded in this post using the iframe tag.
FLV Test
Let's see if I can embed a Flash Video file stored on my own server. I'm using a Flash player called WASP that I found on Wimpyplayer.com. It cost $30, but it is worth it to be able to play FLV files from my own website. You can use it to embed files on a page or you can have it open a pop-up window. You can also create a jukebox and play several movies.
Embed in Plain Text Mode
iSight Test on Vimeo
Well, that seems to work which is great because I really want to embed multimedia files into this blog. All I did was copy and paste the code from Vimeo into the plain text editor of WordPress and it worked - no need to install plug-ins.