Stop Motion Video in Ubuntu using Webcam

stop_motion.md

#Stop Motion

Did this using the Acer laptop webcam using Ubuntu

Install stuff we need

sudo apt-get install cheese streamer avconc

make a directory for the files

cd ~/Downloads/
mkdir cap
cd cap/

check out the webcam

cheese

do the time-lapse capture

streamer -o 0000.jpeg -s 300x200 -j 100 -t 2000 -r 1

filter out bad shots, etc

shotwell

rename and move to temp

i=0; for file in ~/Downloads/cap/*.jpeg; do cp $file /tmp/photo$i.jpg; i=$((i+1)); done

do video encoding

avconv -i /tmp/photo%d.jpg -r 24 video.mp4

clean up

rm *.jpeg
rm /tmp/photo*.jpg
mv video.mp4 ..
cd ..
rm cap