Timelapse Software / Setup

[6719jason]

Possible Timelapse Software? - http://matthewseremet.com/website/2011/ ... stitching/
Command Line Options available too it seems - will give it a bash shortly.

[6719jason]

pretty good, i am actually doing a load of pictures today for that very reason, so just threw them through this, did have an anomoly tho, it shoved a couple of the earlier "night" pictures into the day ones.

Here is a "rough" go anyway, not complete yet because the sun hasnt totally set here! we have a boot sale each tuesday opposite the house, so quite a bit of activtity on the camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTtO5rwgZw

[6719jason]

When i do it properly, i am going to cut a lot of the night time frames out, so it starts just before sunrise

[6719jason]

pretty good, i am actually doing a load of pictures today for that very reason, so just threw them through this, did have an anomoly tho, it shoved a couple of the earlier "night" pictures into the day ones.

Here is a "rough" go anyway, not complete yet because the sun hasnt totally set here! we have a boot sale each tuesday opposite the house, so quite a bit of activtity on the camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTtO5rwgZw

That looks really good! See what you mean about it throwing a few night ones in but overall it seems good!

[6719jason]

Yeah, i found the problem with the anomoly too, organise by name, not creation time, because, if like me, cumulus/yawcam is on a different computer, if your transferring the pics bit by bit, you bugger up the creation times. So if you organise it by filename (left default by yawcam etc) then it all throws together well, i am just waiting for the last few shots now then i will do it again properly!

[6719jason]

Well, here is the final result of mine with that program, i am also going to do it through windows movie maker at some point, and compare the two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL7-07A81co

Sadly, i have just noticed a minor "blip", the camera moved around 5pm (i think it was something to do with my dog, sitting on the windowsill next to it!

[6719jason]

Well, here is the final result of mine with that program, i am also going to do it through windows movie maker at some point, and compare the two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL7-07A81co

Sadly, i have just noticed a minor "blip", the camera moved around 5pm (i think it was something to do with my dog, sitting on the windowsill next to it!

Thats really impressive! Superb quality! I'd be interested to see the results of that

[6719jason]

No difference in quality, just the ability to add credits/ text with movie maker I guess.

So, for a free program, this was a great little find indeed, VERY simple to use (more simple than movie maker thats for sure)

Oh, my settings, whilst using that program, the movie is just over a minute long, and i had one shot every 4 minutes, with a frame rate of 3 per second

[6719jason]

No difference in quality, just the ability to add credits/ text with movie maker I guess.

So, for a free program, this was a great little find indeed, VERY simple to use (more simple than movie maker thats for sure)

Oh, my settings, whilst using that program, the movie is just over a minute long, and i had one shot every 4 minutes, with a frame rate of 3 per second

Thanks for the update

I quite like it - just found the actual website for it http://en.cze.cz/Images-to-video and I see a batch command list which might be useful - I currently having the images saving tlapse_{time}_{date}.jpg which i then move into a different folder for each day, I'm hoping there might be a way of it auto creating a folder each day and putting the files in there for me instead of me moving then

[6719jason]

That might be handy for me actually, the field in this view, is going to be developed into houses sometime in the future, it might be good to capture the entire build!

[6719jason]

I managed to get YawCam to do what I wanted

By using the following on the File Output: C:\Tlapse\{dateD}{dateM}{dateY}\Tlapse_{tstamp}_{date}.jpg

It now creates a new folder each day, storing the captured files for that day in there and then creating another folder for the next day and so on....

Now all I need to do is get the Time-lapse Software (When using a Batch Command Line) to use the previous days date and Viola!

But before all that..... I need a days captured images (I only started using YamCam this afternoon) but I will make a quick video of those that I did capture today!

[6719jason]

How do you use the batch command line on it (sorry, beyond the limit of my knowledge) I have set up yawcam the way you have suggested, and thats working

[6719jason]

How do you use the batch command line on it (sorry, beyond the limit of my knowledge) I have set up yawcam the way you have suggested, and thats working

Not a clue! But I hoping to find out and as soon as I do I'll post it here

Its time like this that make me think that with a little effort Free Software can be just as good or better than Paid!

Cumulus of course already is well better than ANY paid software

[6719jason]

Right after a bit of tweaking with YawCam and 11hours of waiting... I have some Test Timelapse Videos....

The Webcam Captures 1 Image every 30seconds 24/7 so the total for a day is around 2880 Images...

Now all I have to decide is what frame rate works best and I am thinking I won't know that until the end of the day... but here goes...

11hours @ 2 Frames Per Second - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-i0TX_L3o

11hours @ 5 Frames Per Second - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7ZcLmonD2U

11hours @ 8 Frames Per Second - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1nQcrzR8o

You will probably need to skip quite a bit because of it being 24/7...

[6719jason]

Personally?...the 8 frames a second one

I am now pondering a one off, of 1 shot every second, then run at run it at 24fps