I own a Nikon D700, which has in-camera support for taking time-lapse photos, but I need advice on the easiest and best software solutions for processing the resulting heap of images. I accept that the best software may not be the easiest, and vice versa. Open-source would be great, but I'm open to commercial solutions as well. I've tried Picasa's movie-making feature, but found it to be kludgy and missing many useful options. What do you recommend?
Answer
If you are on a Mac, one of the best ways is using Automator, which you can use to do basic cropping/editing and conversion to video (although this part usually requires Quicktime Pro).
There is a good walkthough here: How to Make a Time-Lapse Video from Stills
Also, a great open source solution is to use ffmpeg, but it is a much more technical path to take, so keep that in mind.
There are lots of examples out there, here's one example: Creating Time Lapse with ffmpeg
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