Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0

Capture time-lapse video

  1. Click Get Media in the Media view of the Tasks panel, and then click Stop Motion .

    The Capture panel opens with the Stop Motion view active.

  2. Click Create New Stop Motion. A preview of your live video source appears in the Capture window.
  3. (Optional) Select the Onion Skinning option in the lower-right corner of the Capture panel to see onion skins—overlays of previous frames captured. You can use onion skins to line up figures you animate.
  4. Select Time Lapse in the lower-left corner of the Capture panel.
  5. Click Set Time .
  6. Under Frequency, drag any of the time controls (Hrs, Min, Sec) to set the interval at which you want the computer to capture frames. For example, setting Frequency to 1 minute captures one frame every minute.
  7. Under Duration, drag any of the time controls to set the length of the capture session. For example, a duration of 5 hours captures frames, at the frequency you set, for a duration of 5 hours, then stop.
  8. Click OK, and then click the Start Time Lapse button.

    Frames are captured at the rate you specify. Toward the upper-left corner of the Capture panel, Next Frame indicates the time of the next scheduled frame grab.

  9. When the time-lapse capture is finished, click Close   in the upper-right corner of the Capture panel.
  10. Save the images by doing one of the following:

    • To save the captured images as a single movie file, and as a set of still images, click Yes. Then, give the new movie a name and location, and click Save.

    • To save the captured images only as individual still photos, click No.

    Depending on your choice, either the still images, or the still images and movie file, are placed in Project view and the Organizer. Additionally, if you selected Capture To Timeline, the still images, but not the movie file, are placed into the Timeline.