

It can be tricky to create a great looking time lapse video because of unexpected interruptions and weather changes. Since you are coming from astrophotography, I am assuming you have a higher tolerance for technical software than many photographers. Fiji or ImageJ is definitely overkill, but it is free and will probably do exactly what you need. There is also a plethora of "plug-ins" written for ImageJ that will probably do what you need to have done, from import, to stacking, to export, if the application does not do it all for you natively.


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Bottom line, it is free and pretty straightforward once you learn how to use stacks in ImageJ/Fiji. Google "time lapse ImageJ" or "time lapse Fiji" and see what you get. Here are a couple of simple videos that demonstrate how it can be used to visualize time-lapse data and export it to a video file: You can download it for free:ĭepending upon your security settings, you will get the more modern MacOSes throwing the typical warning when you attempt to open it the first time, just like many other applications on the Mac. See:įiji is an implementation of NIH Image written in Java, and is constantly being updated and supported. NIH Image was originally developed for the Mac, in Pascal, at the National Institutes of Health - it was made for basic image processing, with roots in microscopy. While it is loaded with other features, Fiji ("Fiji is Just ImageJ") is an open-source, free image processing tool that is based on ImageJ, that is based on NIH Image.
