Hey guys, I have been searching hard for help on this but with no joy... There is plenty of info on doing a time lapse with an iSight out there but I wanted something a little more high res. I have a Canon 400D and just brought a tripod yesterday so am keen to get into some serious timelapse. I can not however find a free solution to doing this on a Mac. After much fighting I finally have Remote Capture from Canon but can't seem to find how to automate this process....it wont even take 1 picture at the moment!

I am aware of iStopMotion, but was wanting something free for now while I play. Is there a program for Mac (free) that will automate timelapse from a still camera, or alternatively help me with Remote Capture!

Thanks guys

easiest method is buying or making your own time release cable
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2006/...lease-circuit/

Thanks for that batrton...I havr figured out though I am an idiot! Found the setting under tools, only after installing the windows version Had too big of a weekend I think. Am going to test this out now...will probably be back asking for help soon!

Please post up any other tips you have for this

OK having issues....it takes the picture and then tells me, error: application can not be launched? Is this because I did not install the whole suite of apps, just EOS utility?

Doesn't EOS utility do this? It should allow you set the camera to take a photo at a specified interval between 5 second and 99 minutes. Of course you would have to keep it tethered to the computer for the entire period.

I've researched this topic a bit as I have an idea planned for a time lapse music video.

Here's a hardware time lapse controller:
http://www.harbortronics.com/products2000.asp

You should also be able to use software to control your 400D (it'll need to be tethered to the Mac to do this). I think there was also an automator action to take a capture from a tethered camera in 10.4, but I can't find it in 10.5.

Ive figured it out in EOS utility (god its a mission to get this program), its under remote capture then tools. The problem is I only installed EOS utility and not all the other crap with it (I hate it, iPhoto is fine) so now when it takes a picture at an interval, it wont load it, I just get an error. Is there a way around this? I could save them to the memory card I guess

Now I just need something to timelapse...there arent even any clouds in the sky at the moment!

put an ice cube on the bench!

you might need to install Digital Photo Professional as well. I have both that and EOS Utility on my Macbook and remote capture works fine.

They don't take up much space and you don't have to use DPP to catalogue your images. Just capture the images into a folder (I just have a folder on my desktop for "Unprocessed RAW images") then dump them into iPhoto later on.

cheers,
Glen.

Cheers guys, might have a go at sunset today...or an ice cube when I go out later on

Perfect weather for it, there should be just enough particulates in the air for a nice sunset along with a nice smattering of fat clouds...

Have fun at sunset

The canon software does a pretty good job. I did that with a powershot and dumped the images into iMovie (changing the defaults for image import) for q quick time lapse movie.

Does anyone know if the EOS software lets you capture images at accurate rates from about 2-10 seconds (like 3.1 second intervals etc)?

Nope. It allows you to set intervals of between 5 sec and 99min 59 sec at 1 second intervals. You choose the interval then tell the camera how many frames you want to shoot - eg, 30 sec interval, 50 shots.

The EOS utility doesn't allow for any finer control than that.

Damn. Thanks for the info.

Well it worked

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hYUblY_GF4M

Its only very quick; 10mins real time with 1 shot per 10 seconds, stitched up in quicktime...can't wait to try some more!