Time Lapse - Still or Video - How To

I have never done this before but will be going to Africa soon, I purchased a intervalometer.

Can someone give me some starting tips, I will probably do a landscape scene over the area I will be visiting. I know everything should be in manual, focus, shutter etc etc.

What should I set the remote control to as a starter?

Also what program do you folks use to piece it all together?

Time depends on what is happening but for clouds 1 second is a reasonable starting point. It is all a bit hit an miss though.

If you had installed Magic Lantern you wouldn't have needed to buy an intervalometer. ML will also ramp exposure.

Other tips - set exposure to Manual and clamp the camera to a solid object. If using a tripod weigh it down and lock it off as solid as you can.

You can use any editor to assemble the clips just set the default still image duration to 1/25 (or 1/24) second in options/preferences/se​tup/wherever and drop the block of images onto the time line. It is often helpful to then render the images out as a clip as trying to edit with several hundred tiny image frames can be a challenge otherwise.

First, figure out how long you want the final timelapse video to be. If your putting it in to a 24fps video timeline, then you'll need 24 pictures for 1 second of video. Same applies to 30fps or 60fps. For a 30 second video at 24fps you'll need 720 pictures. Now figure out how long you actually want to shoot your subject, and you can determine how often the camera should take a picture to arrive at the number of photos you need.

As for software, I always drop my photos into Lightroom and crop them all to 1920x1080 then export them and drop them in Final Cut Pro X. Set each photo to 1 frame.

Lots of options for turning your sequence of still images into a time lapse video:
Quicktime 7 is one of the simplest.
If you're on a Mac, there's a product called Sequence which works well.
http://frosthaus.com/s​equence/
Then there's LRTimelapse which you use in conjunction with Lightroom.
http://lrtimelapse.com
Have fun...

If you have an apple. You can do it with imovie. If you google imovie time-lapse, it should pop up. There literally 3 steps. VERY SIMPLE. One last tip, try one before you go on your trip!