Still trying to find a good program for making timelapse videos.

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Still trying to find a good program for making timelapse videos. I’d like to know what others are using especially if they are huge! like 500+ pics.

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Are you looking for a program to periodically snap pictures from a webcam or for something to combine those pictures into a video?

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I use premiere pro, when I import my 7000+ images from an over night timelapse, premiere has an option to import numbered images, which is them imported to the project timeline as a nice video compilation, all I do is set the speed, then export & re-import to a new sequence…
test here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcN9Gxuv5LE

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You may find that any reasonably well written video editor will handle your photos. 500 photos at 24 frames per second (old-style film rate) is slightly mroe than 20 seconds of video, hardly a struggle for a decent program. You may also find some free alternatives, especially if you’re using linux.

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If they’re in order and you’re not giving them weird random filenames, then do it with command line!
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html

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I’ll use ffmpeg command line : http://hamelot.io/visualization/using-ffmpeg-to-convert-a-set-of-images-into-a-video/

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I’m not trying this in linux. Windows application please. actually I was having issues with some other programs because of the naming method. I named the files Date/Time(Seconds).JPG
EX: 2016-03-31_0225.jpg

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ffmpeg works nice in windows, too, mplayer, I think, has also a windows version :slight_smile: But the naming could make that difficult…

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Actually @Volker_Klaffehn the problem with ffmpeg was that it doesn’t take in all the files. The final movie was missing like half of the files.

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You could download the Windows version http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/
Or just run Linux off of a live CD and process your pictures from a USB drive?

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Thanks @Francis_Lee Yes I am using a Raspberry Pi for the pics and all the pics are set to be saved on the USB stick. So all I have todo is remove the stick and plug into my lappy.

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Ohhh… hmmm I wonder if there’s a way to trigger a script to create the video right on the raspberry pi when the print is done??? :slight_smile:

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Actually I’d like to process them myself so I can preview it and see how well the quality is and how fast it is. So that I can adjust accordingly.

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Magix Movie Edit will do it and there is a trial. Before you import set the standard picture length to 1 frame and it can handle an absurd number of images without chugging down.

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You could do the whole process on the Pi. http://rasterweb.net/raster/2013/09/06/tlbot-4-camerapi/