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Been experimenting with creating time lapse videos again.
Joining 3 months (1 season worth) of mp4's and then speeding it up to have a play length of around 3 minutes.
So far done summer of 2014/2015
https://youtu.be/l5J58EjXer8
And Autumn 2015
https://youtu.be/gRWbcu2VDw4

Interesting how the camera view moves up and down on a daily cycle too, something expanding and contracting?

How about a whole year, with one frame per day, taken at the same time of day?

mcrossley wrote:Interesting how the camera view moves up and down on a daily cycle too, something expanding and contracting?

How about a whole year, with one frame per day, taken at the same time of day?

The wind moving the pergola, we took half of it down early this year due to rot.
A whole year one frame at a time, mmm if I could find a way of pulling a single jpg from a zip file, that would make it easier.

What time of day would you suggest????
Midday???

*more painful work*

Added the ones from the very beginning
Adelaide Autumn 2014 in 3 minutes https://youtu.be/z2yuCuhJmiM
Adelaide winter 2014 in 3 minutes https://youtu.be/8o8wdRMy8e4
Adelaide Spring 2014 in 3 minutes https://youtu.be/mlU4ZT0AFgQ

That's it....

mcrossley wrote:How about a whole year, with one frame per day, taken at the same time of day?

Well I've done one with a single frame from 06/07/2014 to 11/06/2015(A few days missing).
The images before 06/07/2014 were never kept and pulling the frames from the actual video resulted in poor images.
So I'm not going to worry about them.
Anyway, here is the Youtube link to the single shot per day time-lapse.

https://youtu.be/k_If7Np5UcQ

Last year timelapse photo's are taken about 12 a clock http://www.lookr.com/lookout/1385987142 ... -play-year

nitrx wrote:Last year timelapse photo's are taken about 12 a clock http://www.lookr.com/lookout/1385987142 ... -play-year

Interesting, what did you use to create the transition effects(fade into next frame)......

ace2 wrote:

nitrx wrote:Last year timelapse photo's are taken about 12 a clock http://www.lookr.com/lookout/1385987142 ... -play-year

Interesting, what did you use to create the transition effects(fade into next frame)......

Unfortunatelly I don't know the script I've submitted my camimage url to http://webcams.travel and http://www.lookr.com/ makes the scripts.

Cool, I shall submit my URL once I get home.
Nothing like getting extra traffic!!!

Anyone know of other site for this???

This is pretty cool. What software do you used for the webcam and what do you use to create the timelapse please?

Sadgit wrote:This is pretty cool. What software do you used for the webcam and what do you use to create the timelapse please?

No commercial software at all, it's all done with my custom cmd(dos) scripts.
I use wget(dos exe) to grab the image and ffmpeg(dos exe) to over lay text and ffmpeg to create the mp4's.
I also use ncftp(dos exe) to upload onto my server.

Very nice Chris!!!!

You have me looking to do the same here now.

Slowly here have been evolving to using IP HD cameras. Noticed now the newer ones are little computers with their own RTC clocks and such. I have bits and pieces on my workbench. With the more cpu and memory in these cameras I can talk to them from a few external resources to pull down video stills.

Just noticed most recent firmware on one IP HD weather camera includes automatic time lapse updates; found this looking and by accident tripped over this page.

At first I was using the foscams snapshot every X seconds, but opted to use wget to grab image as I wanted to add weather over lays.
I also use a script that uses sunset/sunrise to start the capture for the time lapse and creates the hourly, daily and sunrise time lapse for site and one of each for YouTube as well.
I have loads of info and the actual scripts on my blog (links on site).

Be interesting to see how that cameras time-lapse thing works, it looks like the foscams take snapshot every X seconds either to site or ftp.