Using blender to create a time-lapse video from your photo series or animation sequence.

First you want to open blender and select the video editing option from the top of the drop down menu. Many people do not think of blender for use as a video editing tool since its primary use is to develop 3D animation. I personally enjoy the fact that it is open source and has all the features I need for video editing. It also works with both windows and Linux gaining even more love from me.

Once you get into the video editing view select the add menu towards the bottom and select image. This will allow you to navigate to the folder you stored your time-lapse or animation images in.

Select the images for your time-lapse sequence and use Ctrl+Shift on your keyboard to select all the images.

Next you will want to go properties and select the type of movie output in this case I am using .avi file format.

Finally choose the destination location for the video file output and then select animation to process the files into a video file.