@johnp have you considered just doing an actual time lapse photo series and converting that?

depending on the camera, a lot of times you can control them via either a remote port and intervalometer or via USB and software to take a photo every so many seconds/minutes

@AJHenderson Hey, no I haven't actually...Would I be able to take enough photos though to create a proper video?

then you can make a video from the photo sequence

I can't remember what the frame rate is on my cam...it's only a nikon d3100

depends how long you want the finished video to be and how long the process takes

that you are recording

that's one idea, thanks @AJHenderson :)

the first trick would be to figure out the actual framerate you need for the timelapse

that could work actually as an illustration could take hours...I would be hoping for about 4minutes + of video

yeah, so if you do 24p final output a 4 minute video is 5760 photos

and I'm guessing you would mean compiling a frame rate of about 24fp/s+ ?

ok cool

so if it is two hours to draw, you are looking at one photo a second

which shouldn't be a problem, especially if you drop it down to a resolution more in line with a video frame

haha it'd be more like 22 hours to draw over a few days :P

oh, in that case it's way shorter

like once every 10 seconds

which is easy

even at full res

have you experience with this yourself? would it be easy to pause during breaks, etc?

id probably need an A/C connection to avoid charging breaks

yes, I've done both the usb and intervalometer techniques

big trick is set the camera on a sturdy tripod and don't move it till you are done

but you just stop the intervalometer or the pc software when taking a break

make sure to control the lighting of the space though

otherwise you'll get harsh jumps in lighting

cool, this should save me a bit of money then until i get a new camera :) thanks! any particular software you use?

I did it with a Canon, so it would be different software

i have the adobe suite but i have no idea if that can do it

ok

I don't think so, but there are likely free software to do it

most camera control software can do it

cool, thank you so much!

assuming that Nikon actually has a USB control mode

which I can't imagine they wouldn't

id say so, ill look into it

but yeah, you just stop the camera from taking photos and start it back up, just make sure to control exposure and lighting and keep the camera in the same location and orientation and it should be fine

I've done dozens of time lapse videos of varying complexity

I used to do video far more often than photo

and looks like nikon does support usb control

controlmynikon.com/compare

there's the first thing I found, it's $30 but you can probably find free too

I was just verifying things existed for it

I have no idea about that particular product, it was just the first affordable google result

excellent thanks :)

tethered shooting is the other thing you can search on

as far as assembling the video after, if you save the image sequence with incrementing numbers for the frames, you can actually open an image sequence as a video directly in premiere or after effects

you just select the first image in the sequence and click the "Image Sequence" checkbox and choose a framerate for it

(or it may just match the project frame rate depending on the version you are using)

ah yes I vaguely remember that from a stop motion video I did way back

but it does require that the frame numbers be sequential

@ThomasAyoub thanks. Now just have to remember not to downvote anyone for a while :-)