Given that I provided this info a few days ago..maybe it is best to combine the two.

http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=10471

This is so good. When I first started shooting, Nikon had a wheel of pictures where I could see how they shot them. It was so much help in getting started and this is even better. Says a lot about the company of Nikon!

I just got (finally) my wife to sell her p&s and get an entry level DSLR (D3000). That site is pitched dead right for her to easily learn about it.

Nice one Nikon.

@ earthsea... yes, Nikon has some great tips for us and some of the folks ore pretty good photographers....

Congratulations to Nikon for adding this to their website. Well worth a look.
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/index.page

Thanks regulator... I fixed it....

You mean Lapse?

saultv also take a look at dynamicperseption.com they have some how to vids. They are trying to sell their dollies but have some good info. How to figure out times and number of shots. Might help. I liked it and I want one.

ahh...and editing the sequence in Final Cut Pro 10.0.4

Saulty,

There are lots of sites on the web dealing with timelapse photos. search vimeo and youtube for tutorials. Try using the intervalometer built in to the D7000. Not sure what you are shooting timelapses of. For clouds, I use an interval of 3 seconds and shoot 300-400 images, which at 24fps makes 12-15 seconds of timelapse. of course you can do more.

For star timelapses, you can try the same number of shots. I use f2.8 or so, an ISO of 2000, a 20 second exposure and 30 second interval. If you want to turn the star timelapse into star trails, do use as Jonnyapple suggests startrails.exe, its free. You can use LR 4 to also make timelapse movies. A program called LRTimelapse will help you make timelapse movies while also using LR 4.

These are better ways to create a timelapse, I think, than using the inhouse video in the D7000, although others might think differently.

Have fun.

ahh...and editing the sequence in Final Cut Pro 10.0.4

HI golf007sd, I am shooting D7000 1920x1080 24p.

@saultv: What gear are you using?

I posted some settings here using free software http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2049
Try a program called star trails that is also free. I don't remember that working as well as ffmpeg, though.

I would like to know how is the right way to make an effective time laps recording. I made one following the user's manual indications but every shot results of 4 seconds long and to see it runs the sequence in high speed I cut them by the half, two seconds long, and it works, but I would like load all the sequence of shots into the time lime in frames of short time to see the object recorded floating as I usually admire this kind of effect. Am I making some mistake in the settings configurations? Thanks to all.

KrisB said:
You may try this :
launch Terminal (in Applications/Utilities), then do the following command in Terminal (as it is) :

open ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/

This will open a finder with the folder containing the "saved state" of all applications.
Here, remove any reference to CNX or VNX.

This may solve your issue. Just did the same for a thirdparty software which was not running anymore on Lion.

Chris, sorry this is not working on my Mac. regards, peter.
Si I still have a powermac with 4 discs, 2 for backup, 1 is my main disc and 1 is the clone from my wife's MBP. Including all the same specs as my promac. On this clone I can work with CNX2 but this costs me hours to swith every time. But my conclusion is that this fold is caused by the software. Nikon or Apple? greetings, peter

Take care not to remove anything else here, although it should not matter, I'll not be responsible of anything...

I completly disable this folder on my Mac as I hate this behaviour.

Hello Jeff.
rel. 2.3.0 is no longer available. Even in English and in Netherlands (Dutch). So I think they're working on it. And still I removed everything from CNX2.
Here (Holland) they released a week ago a new VNX2 for mountain Lion, This will work fine now on my Promac. But CNX2 gives still the message: (translated from Dutch):

Your operating system has not the possibility to start NX2
Than, CNX2 does not support this volumestructure so this installationprogram will now be closed.

So still not working with CNX2.

Who can help me, regards peter

I just checked with my MAC and it shows CNX2 2.3.0 full version available...You have to login to your account maybe to see the full version.

I do not have it installed on my MBP. I use CNX2 on my Mac Mini. I just upgraded it the other day to 10.8.1 and Capture NX2 2.3.2 still launches fine and works.

I d/l CNX2 2.3.0 and the 2.3.2 update and just installed it on my MBP running 10.7.4 and it installed fine, launches & I can open and manipulate images.

I have had issues in the past with CNX2 not shutting down properly. Try right-clicking the "NX 2" icon on the tray and see if "force quit" is available. Could be it never stopped from the last time it was successfully launched.

Did you uncheck the "relaunch windows when logging back on" from the shutdown dialogue box? That is a dumb feature and I am glad they made it default to off finally.

Later,
Jeff

You may try this :
launch Terminal (in Applications/Utilities), then do the following command in Terminal (as it is) :

open ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/

This will open a finder with the folder containing the "saved state" of all applications.
Here, remove any reference to CNX or VNX.

This may solve your issue. Just did the same for a thirdparty software which was not running anymore on Lion.

Take care not to remove anything else here, although it should not matter, I'll not be responsible of anything...

I completly disable this folder on my Mac as I hate this behaviour.

Jeff thanks, I've tried this all, app cleaner, cache out but there was nothing in my pc which was related to NX2. Went to Nikon site and there the software NX2 2.3.0 complete latest version was removed. Only the update was available. So I think they are working on the new version for OSX 10.7.4 and Mountain Lion. I will wait for that, regards peter

From another thread I replied to a few months back:

Here is what I would try:

1. Download/install AppCleaner (cirrent ver. 2.0.6) from FreeMacSoft dot net
2. Download/install Cache Out X (Current version 5.0.5) from trilateralsystems dot com
3. Verify and repair your "Macintosh HD"
4. Use AppCleaner to remove LR and CNX2
5. Run Cache Out X
6. Have you installed any new RAM/HDD and not update PRAM or System Controller?
i. If you have google how to reset PRAM and/or system controller
7. From a terminal look for any directories or files from CNX2 or LR
Check Applications, /Library Application Support & /Users/<your ID>/Library/Application Support - Remove them
8. Re-install LR and CNX2

HTH

Later,
Jeff

Hello, after downloading VNX2 (latest release to use with mountain lion) this is now working. Still waiting for an answer for my problem. If NX3 is near, maybe that will solve it. Still working with Aperture and all the Nik filters. regards peter

Short story. Work for 5 years with both programs. Installed all the upgrades inc. Lion. Everything worked fine until last week. Something happened with the systemUIServer.app. It failed. Did a Lion recovery and solved.
But after that VNX2 and CNX (both 2.3.2) won't work anymore. All on my ProMac.
My Macbook Pro has exactly the same configuration. I cloned it (with CCC) on one of my spare disks in the Promac. Start with de "ALT" butten pressed and see everything worked (I mean the foto's) fine. Only I have to move all my pictures from one disk to another and so I can do my photography work further.

So who can explain me which file in Lion is the wrong one? The upgraded (Tiger, leopard, Lion) or the brandnew fresh Lion (10.7.4)?
and what is the name of this file??

I hope to hear soon, Regards peter

NSXType-R said:
Just curious, who officially "owns" the photos?

Hi,

Unless there have been changes since I was a photographer, they are DoD photographs.

My best,

Mike

Just curious, who officially "owns" the photos?