It is a good idea to plan the desired length for your video beforehand, and take some more photographs to achieve a smoother movement with higher frame rates (especially when moving objects are near your camera).įor a good time lapse video, the camera needs to be set to Manual mode and choose a non changing Aperture (A), Shutter speed (S), ISO and Focus. At 25 frames per second, the same video will be only 12 seconds long (300/25=12s). If you choose to take 300 pictures, and you make a final video running at 10 frames per second, then your video will be 30 seconds long (300/10=30s). Some cameras have a built in intervalometer or they can accept external accessories.

This can be done either with computer software, or the camera itself. The rest of the steps might not be reproducable with compact point and shoot cameras.įirst of all the camera needs to be very stable between shots to make the composition easy later on, therefore, a tripod needs to be used.Ĭhoose how many total pictures need to be taken and set your camera to take one picture every some predefined interval (for example one every 5 seconds). How to take good pictures to compose a time lapse video afterwards Time-lapse photography can be considered the opposite of high speed photography or slow motion. The result is an apparent 30-times speed increase. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, then played back at 30 frames per second. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. If some of the commands below are not working, you might need to apt-get install some extra software, but all of it is available in the repositories :)Ī Quick Introduction to Time Lapse Videosįrom Wikipedia: Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. One of the hardest (almost impossible) things to find, is software for photo deflickering so for solving this (or at least improve the results), I created my own little Perl script to compute and change the average luminance (brightness) of all of the photographs. After looking around, searching, reading and experimenting, I ended up with a bunch of commands to quickly make high quality time lapse videos under Linux.

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