Small project advice needed

[hp01jpc]

Hi, can anyone give me some advice with the following...

My wife just gave birth to our daughter Emily. Over the course of her pregnancy I took a photo of her and a photo of her bump every night. Our intention is to make a time lapse video of this.

A long time after starting I realised I made a few rookie mistakes. I should have set my camera onto a lower resolution (now I have a ton of pics of a few megabytes each) and I also should have somehow marked a place for her to stand each time.

So what I need is software that can use one image as a template and then I can overlay the others on top and re-save them so that she is in the same place (and at the same zoom) each time.

Then I need a quick way to bulk compress the images into a smaller file size.

Then I need to put them together into a video.

Has anyone done anything like this before and could you offer any tips on any of these aspects?

Thanks!

 

[Genoma]

I'm not an expert but I'm pretty confident you can do all this with photoshop. You can bulk import into layers, align the layers manually, and bulk convert the files to a lower resolution (if needed). You can also create an animation from a set of photos in layers and export it into various output formats.

 

[Kei]

Last time I did this, I created an export template in adobe bridge with specific resolution settings for 1920x1080. As my files had a numerical sequence I could use quicktime pro to quickly assemble a time lapse and export as a video.

 

[D.P.]

Image Magik

 

[AHarvey]

I wouldn't worry too much about making sure they are all the same angle/position etc, and you can use proshow or even windows live movie maker to make the video. compile the video, then reduce it down in size, I wouldn't bother doing it with the images before hand.

I've made loads of videos from photos, it's really easy and simple enough to put them to music as well.