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Notes for creating a time lapse video.
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Time Lapse Notes

This document briefly outlines the basic steps required to generate a time lapse video from a set of images.

Steps

  1. Capture images. It is best if the files have sequential naming convention.

  2. Move images to a single folder.

  3. cd into the folder containing the images, e.g.:

    $ cd images/

  4. Generate a file containing all relative-path file names for the images to be used to generate the video:

    $ ls ./ -1X > ./images.txt

  5. Use mencoder to generate the video (source):

    $ mencoder -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect:vqscale=3 -vf scale=1920:1080 -mf type=jpeg:fps=20 mf://@./images.txt -o time-lapse.avi
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