HPR1449: Timelapse Video

Summary: A quick introduction to timelapse video and some of the tools used in linux to help create them. cd to dir that holds the images Create a directory called resize and run "mogrify -path resize -resize 1920x1080! *.JPG" If you need to Deflicker your images place the script in your resize directory and run "./timelapse-deflicker.pl -v" This will create a dir called deflickered If you use mencoder to create your video you need to use ls and make a text file with the files listed in sequential order "ls -1tr | grep -v files.txt > files.txt" then "mencoder -nosound -noskip -oac copy -ovc copy -o outputfile.avi -mf fps=25 'mf://@files.txt' if you use ffmpeg something like this should get you out of trouble, though your files need to be named in sequential order starting with img(number 1 2 etc).jpg "ffmpeg -f image2 -i img%d.jpg -vcodec libx264 outputfile.mp4" Youtube links Milkyway http://youtu.be/VeGM7iEBUT0 Construction http://youtu.be/-9iCGD6Ielw Deflicker script http://tinyurl.com/p7ffof7