1.) Shoot a sequence of images with the interval setting on your camera or use an external intervalometer

Keep all your images together in one folder, put them into a project folder, named after your project, ideally on your external hard-drive. 
2.) Open Premiere
– Reset in ‘Window’ the workspace layout

– Save the project in your time-lapse folder (on your external hard drive where also a folder with your images is located).
– Check and adjust in Preferences the number of still images per second

– Create a new sequence and name it ‘images‘
Sequence settings:
Choose Digital DSLR, DSLR 1080p,25
This setting has the following specification: square pixels, 1920 x 1080, HD, 16:9, progressive (no fields, i= interlaced, p = progressive), square pixels (1.0, non-anamorphic)
Feel free to ignore the audio for now.
NTSC National Television System Committee 
PAL Phase Alternate Line – used in Europe 

If you are preparing a project with still images for another form of presentation than a ‘standard’ movie in 2017, use custom settings for the dimension. For the iDome, 2600×2600 pixels is ideal.

Save the project in your project folder
3.) Import the folder with your individual images, all sequentially numbered, and drag it on the timeline

4.) Create a new sequence named ‘movie‘ with the same settings and drag the sequence ‘images‘ on the timeline.
Now you can change the speed: With the right mouse click select Speed/Duration and explore the settings

Green = rendered, red = unrendered

5.) The seqence might not play back in real time. Render the sequence (check in preference your work-disc) or / and export it into your Timelapse folder.


The same is valid for the settings for another presentation form. Export your movie for the iDome with 2600×2600 px (or a smaller square format if you don’t have the resolution), but keep the other settings.