Using Video Frame Capture to Create a Time Lapse Video

Every wonder how they make those time lapse video of flowers blooming? Want to make your own? Maybe not a blooming flower but any subject you want. By using video frame capture software you can make your own time lapse movie and the best part – it’s easy.

If you were to take a movie of a flower blooming it would take over 48 hours and several video tapes or storage devices would be needed. Not to mention how long it would take to upload it to a video site on the Internet. So the best way to make a time lapse movies, if you don’t have a time lapse camera, is to use video frame capture software.

It takes a bit of time, and using a flower as an example, you use your video camera to take a two minute clip of the flower every hour until the flower is in full bloom. Using video frame capture software to break the frames into single shots then put them together to make one full video. Easy as baking a pie! Of course, if you can’t bake a pie...

You can also use video frame capture software to make slow or fast motion movies. To slow down a video take frame captures of every other or every third or fourth frame. Use video editing software to insert the frames next to the frames you copied and Voilà – instant slow motion movie.

To make a movie faster using video frame capture copy every fourth frame and make a new video with the frame and the movie will be in fast motion.

There are many ways to use video frame capture software once you learn the ins and outs. Think of the possibilities for a movie of the moon crossing the sky, a mushroom growing, cartooning, home movies and comics. There’s any number of ways to use frame capture software.