Properties "Image sequence" rules?

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I used Windows Camera to take approximately 1000 pictures and need to turn them into a time lapse video. But it doesn’t work. What are the rules for Image sequence import?

The files are named like:
WIN_20170501_09_43_13_Pro.jpg
WIN_20170501_09_43_23_Pro.jpg
WIN_20170501_09_43_33_Pro.jpg
…

I open a new project, drag in the first picture. I go to properties and click Image sequence. A message indicating it is loading the files displays for a few seconds. But no playable sequence ever appears. Clicking Play just shows the first frame.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Kyle

2

Far simpler to user MakeAvi for compiling a time lapse.
► http://makeavi.sourceforge.net/

3

I appreciate the suggestion, but would like to find out why Shotcut does not work as advertised.

I suspect the programmers made a shortcut and assumed that pictures would have sequence numbers 1, 2, 3… without any skipped numbers. But I can find no documented rules on how the names must be formatted for Shotcut to read the files the way it is supposed to work.

Thanks,
Kyle

4

In my tests although it appeared nothing was playable from the timeline, exporting produced a properly playable file.
However I can confirm that a non-numerical sequential image store does not work.
17.04.02

It’s still much faster using MakeAvi :slight_smile:

5

Use an app like EZBatchrename to call the image Timelapse001.jpeg, 002, 003 …

And it should work.