Uploaded February 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Some people call it the Poor Man's Motion Control Time-lapse PhotographyMethod or simply Pseudo Motion Control. What it basically boils down to is this. Presuming that you've shot and created a timelapse master in 4K 16:9 widescreen resolution which is 3840 x 2160 pixels you can then bring that into a 1920 x 1080P timeline project in FCPx and whilst it renders to the timeline it has twice the amount of natural resolution.
This ultimately means that if you expand the clip by up to 150% within the 1080P timeline you will then be able to utilise that 'overflow' as it were to create keyframes and therefor motion pans and zooms without losing any noticeable image deterioration for web presentations, notice I said web presentations.
This quick tutorial runs you though how to accomplish that and shows you the results applied to two of my recent static time-lapse sequences.
Timelapse Sequences:
Shot on a Canon 5D3 using a Nikor 14-24mm f2.8 G ED lens by way of Novoflex adapter. Manfrotto 055XProB Tripod with a MIOPS Trigger as the intervalometer.
Edited with LRTimelapse Pro4.5 and Adobe Lightroom CS5
Edited with
Some people call it the Poor Man's Motion Control Time-lapse PhotographyMethod or simply Pseudo Motion Control. What it basically boils down to is this. Presuming that you've shot and created a timelapse master in 4K 16:9 widescreen resolution which is 3840 x 2160 pixels you can then bring that into a 1920 x 1080P timeline project in FCPx and whilst it renders to the timeline it has twice the amount of natural resolution.
This ultimately means that if you expand the clip by up to 150% within the 1080P timeline you will then be able to utilise that 'overflow' as it were to create keyframes and therefor motion pans and zooms without losing any noticeable image deterioration for web presentations, notice I said web presentations.
This quick tutorial runs you though how to accomplish that and shows you the results applied to two of my recent static time-lapse sequences.
Timelapse Sequences:
Shot on a Canon 5D3 using a Nikor 14-24mm f2.8 G ED lens by way of Novoflex adapter. Manfrotto 055XProB Tripod with a MIOPS Trigger as the intervalometer.
Edited with LRTimelapse Pro4.5 and Adobe Lightroom CS5
Edited with
