Time lapse - max # of photos to insert?

[toejam]

I'm not interested in the minutia details of the daily photos so much as the overall 3 month picture. The cameras trigger on events, usually movement, which happens randomly. I may just have to develop a script/batch file that would go through all of the files and move every x'th one to a folder that will be my photos to use in the timelapse.

The photos are not large, approximately 94 kb in size.

[lata]

If the recordings are a snapshot on a trigger event then I assume you need all those frames.
The Timelapse type import can remove frames but only in order say one every 5 frames, those frames may be important to you, I would suggest not using that feature.
The program is not intelligent enough to scan the images to choose the images you want to skip.

Once you have imported your images you can set the frame duration to one frame, although after playing the project you may feel you require a longer duration, maybe 5 frames, and easy to do.
explained earlier.

Ok
Now you can render the project to create a video file.
Using that video file you can identify the sections you require, cutting and deleting the unwanted areas. Again the program cannot do that for you.
That will reduce the length further

second option
Speed timelapse
Once you have rendered the video if you apply Speed Timelapse to speed up playback, that effectively removes frames from the video, sequentially
If you increase playback to 200% the program will remove every alternate frame, 110% will remove one frame in 10, unfortunately those frames may include important info.

I would opt for Drag and Drop from Windows Explorer Folder direct to timeline.
Change the Photo Duration to 1 frame
Render the project to a video file using Share.

[toejam]

I finally got something to work. Ended up running a batch to move every 30'th file to a special folder. That folder contained all of the photos, but, dropped the total # of photos down to ~ 2000. Then I went through the import timelapse frames and then rendered. For very small photos and a 3 minute video (originally), the rendered file was over 300 mb in size with mp4, over 600 mb with avi. I ended up chopping screen size down to 720x480 at 2.5 mbps to get a 50 mb file. That still seems rather large to me, but, it's a whole lot better t han 300 mb.

Here's my current rendition: https://www.facebook.com/bluffview.mari ... ed_comment

I appreciate all of your input and hope you didn't spend too much of your weekend helping me to solve my problem.

[tletter]

Here's my current rendition: https://www.facebook.com/bluffview.mari ... ed_comment I appreciate all of your input ...

FWIW many of the images that you included are so overexposing as to be effectively washed out. I'd suggest that you examine your camera settings to avoid overexposures and also that you use an image editor such as Corel PaintShop to make the images viewable.

[toejam]

You are absolutely correct, I'm working on v2 at this time.