Here is one more old timelapse which I love very much. The nimbus  clouds forming distant storm is mesmerizing sight to watch. Due to such  patterns of nature, I love monsoon season whole heartedly. So how  did I capture this? You need some experience of watching the sky  especially during monsoon season. The whitish nimbus clouds  illuminated by Sunlight turn dark as they shadow the sunlight. Such  scenes are normal in coastal Karnataka and occur frequently during  monsoon season. My curiosity towards monsoon makes me to watch at sky  most of the times during monsoon season. Consequently this was one such  scene which I could capture it as timelapse. The final video is edited  in KDENLIVE for various parameters which I dont remember now. I aspire  to capture more such timelapses during monsoon season. Hope you enjoy  the timelapse.
The  movements are achieved by usual cropping techniques. A little bit of  boring math for cropping. The initial plane of frame was as shown in  dotted line and final frame I wanted to achieve is shown as solid  rectangle. Note that I wanted to maintain the the aspect ratio intact  (which was 3:2). If not, the final frames would be clipped and video  looks erroneous! The resolution 550D has is 5184x3456 pixels which is  aspect ratio of 3:2. The motion time lapser counts (0,0) axis from top  left and hence some offset corrections needs to be done to achieve  movement. Consequently I fixed (x,y) co-ordinates to (0,1000) and later  move the plane towards (1500, 0). To achieve this and fit the images to  frame the offset correction goes as below
Frame length: (5184-1500),(3456-1000) = (3684,2456)
Movements from (0,1000) to (1500,0) with frame length of (3684, 2456).
Despite of this calculation, I had some clippings in last few images. May be algorithm used by Motion Time Lapser is different and hence I restricted final 'y' co-ordinates to (1500,200). The final math goes as
Initial (x,y)=(0,1000)
Final (x,y)=(1500,200)
Frame length=(3684,2456)
The final figure is as below. So what's the rule? There is no rule as such! It is upto your discretion to decide the co-ordinates to align with desired movements and speediness. Draw your desired movements on sheet of paper, execute simple math and set the co-ordinates in motion timelapser software which can be downloaded from here
Frame length: (5184-1500),(3456-1000) = (3684,2456)
Movements from (0,1000) to (1500,0) with frame length of (3684, 2456).
Despite of this calculation, I had some clippings in last few images. May be algorithm used by Motion Time Lapser is different and hence I restricted final 'y' co-ordinates to (1500,200). The final math goes as
Initial (x,y)=(0,1000)
Final (x,y)=(1500,200)
Frame length=(3684,2456)
The final figure is as below. So what's the rule? There is no rule as such! It is upto your discretion to decide the co-ordinates to align with desired movements and speediness. Draw your desired movements on sheet of paper, execute simple math and set the co-ordinates in motion timelapser software which can be downloaded from here

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