Time lapse tutorial for Panasonic Lumix cameras 

Thanks for taking the time to write out the summary!!

you are a master guy, many thanks !

exactly this :)

There is a huge difference in quality, especially if you shoot RAW, edit and create video on PC rather than in camera. Also, recording normal video would take a lot of memory card space and drain battery much faster.

Camerahoarders thanks again! You saved me again!

I took a time-lapse but i didn't set up the camera properly as per this great video. I let the camera create the video and it looked good. Later I took the images, processed them in Lightroom (I'm a beginner) and then put them together in premiere pro. The increase in quality was astonishing. I used a Peter Mckinnon time-lapse video to guide me.

Michael Lakoudis would you mind please writing the name of the tutorial?

Alessandro Arzilli ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UGtSx5kYuOk.html. The best way to make a Time Lapse (by Peter McKinnon)

Sounds like a bug of some sort... try looking if there is a firmware update for your camera for starters.

Yes, electronic shutter has basically "infinite" life span.

Yes, you need focus unchanged in all frames otherwise it might look distracting in final video (especially if it gets confused and focuses on something else other than what you want)

I will try it next week, thanks.

Glad it was helpful!

No, you can only set delay but the camera must be powered on until that times comes. It might be possible to combine it with power saver, but I haven't tried that combination.

Interesting. I'll give it a try when I get my G85. Thanks

Camerahoarders

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When you create time lapse clip it is saved as a video file. It might be possible it went to another folder on memory card.

Thank you, I will investigate that. If anyone has a fix, please let me know.

This same thing is happening to me! I have looked through all of the folders on my memory card and the only things that are showing up are the individual pictures.

Yes, but set the number to 9999 so you'll have more than plenty of shots remaining.

Ok, so there are 4 digits available. Cool, that will let you capture longer footage indeed, opposed to for example Nikon 1 J5 which has 3 digits only. Thanks!

Set the longest number of shots (9999 I think) and simply stop it manually when you set the equipment.

@@Camerahoarders thank you, I'll try that

No, TZ55 doesn't have time lapse.

No, you need battery in the camera for it to work. Only way to make it work indefinetly is to buy dummy battery and external power supply.

@@Camerahoarders I have a PC or a charger for power supply. There is no problem with that. Does this mean that the battery will be charged all the time I record? Will it be healthy for the battery? The camera will not heat up too much?

No, I think you misunderstood me. In order to make it work non-stop longer than a single battery can provide you need this: amzn.to/2Mj1IyH This camera does not support charging or power supply over USB while it is working, it only draws power out of the battery.

@@Camerahoarders You're right. This model only transfers files via USB. The Lx100 II already has this capability. I did not know about it before. Such a power supply is not practical.

Hm, I haven't been shooting long t-lapses with it yet but i think time lapse should override sleep mode and prevent the camera from going into one. I'll have to try and see what happens, I'll let you know.

Thank you. Compared to my Google smartphone in conjunction with the HD Camera app, and my Garmin Virb 30 action camera, the process for time lapse on a Panasonic seems lengthy almost to the point of not wanting to use it for that purpose - almost. Thanks Camerahoarders, when you get the time and if you see a fix, that would be appreciated.

Well, i tried it and works for me. I've set sleep on 1 minute and time lapse a bit longer. Camera didn't go to sleep until all the shots were taken. Only then is when it waited for a minute and went to sleep. When I woke it up all of the images were saved on card individually (it does that always) but I could access them as a single set and create time lapse video. Are you sure you went into playback menu and tried making time lapse from there (there are two separate time lapse options, one in record settings menu tab to start and set up time lapse, other one in playback tab to create video with an old set of images?

Camerahoarders, it sounds like you found a critical piece of info. Let me check that, thank you so much.

YOu are probably in electronic shutter mode, that one goes only up to 1 second. mechanical goes to 60 seconds or beyond in bulb mode.

@@Camerahoarders Thank you. I thought it was a limitation of the timelapse feature. But it's important to use this mode, otherwise we could wear the shutter in a very short time.

Yes

and tz57?

TZ57 doesn't have it

No

Camerahoarders thanks for replying😁

No.

Set the manual exposure mode on dial.

Thanks but I can't work out what you are doing or pressing at the start of the video.