How do I change the playback speed of an image-sequence timelapse in Photoshop CC?

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I imported a sequence of still images into Photoshop CC 2018 to make a timelapse. In the Timeline, the frames appear as an image sequence rather than a standard video clip, and changing the frame rate seems to change the frame count while the total duration stays about 5 seconds.

How should I import the files so Photoshop treats them correctly, and what is the proper way to control the timelapse playback speed or duration?

user75526 · Answer

According to Time-lapse photography tutorial in Photoshop, the following steps may do what you want:

In Photoshop, choose image>open navigate to your folder of images.

Choose the first image in the sequence only (don’t select all the images, or Photoshop will try to make a time-lapse sequence for each of the images, and you will have a mess.)

Click the button at the bottom of the import dialog box that says “image sequence” (If the sequence is broken, the video shows how to repair the naming)

Click ok and select a frame-rate when prompted.
If you cannot figure out how to do what you want with Photoshop, you may consider using FFmpeg:
```
ffmpeg -i IMG_%03d.jpg -c:v libx264 -crf 1 -vf fps=30 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4
```
The relevant option to control the framerate is fps=30.

How do I change the playback speed of an image-sequence timelapse in Photoshop CC?

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