Rendering Timelapse - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 11:23:02 pm
content: been making some timelapse with my gopro, i need some basic software (windows) to render the 100s of JPGs into a video file, either avi or mp4can anyone offer some recommendations?

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 11:35:44 pm
content: If all you want to do is combine them, I'd highly reccommend VirtualDub as a simple editor that is easy to use and works very well.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 11:39:34 pm
content: Any video editor can do that. e.g. Sony Movie Studio, VideoPad (free), Corel etc

author: Legit-Design
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 11:42:39 pm
content: This tutorial is even specifically for GoPro.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 11:46:36 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 01, 2014, 11:39:34 pmYes, most editors can load image sewuences, though for simple single-track conversion, trimming &scaling type jobs, VirtualDub is much more lightweight.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 01, 2014, 11:58:56 pm
content: Hmm, doint know why i didn't think of virtualdub, have used it so many times before for other editing!Will give it a goI am using windows live movie 2012, but doesnt handle multiple 100s jpgs very well

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:08:53 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on January 01, 2014, 11:46:36 pmIt's pretty easy in a video editor.1) Select your default image timeline time in the settings (e.g. 1sec per image)2) Drag all your images into the timeline3) RenderOften takes more time to load the package than to do the job

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:14:19 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 02, 2014, 12:08:53 amThat's what I was getting at - if you don't already have an editor installed, you could download & install VirtualDub (1.8M), figure out how to use it and do the job in less time than it takes to download any general-purpose video editor

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:23:06 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on January 02, 2014, 12:14:19 amI don't know about that.VideoPad is only 5.4MB, and as easy to use as windows movie maker.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:34:22 am
content: Live movie makes a balls of it, puts text overlays on every image and i dont have anything else installed, i do have virtualdub thoughBiggest gripe with virtualdub is lack of built in codecs so will likley run it through live movie after to get an mp4Never tried videopad, will check it outthough i have been pretty impressed with live movie (updated version of movie maker)

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 12:39:52 am
content: Haven't really looked at much video editing stuff, but I really like VD as it does a simple job really well. It also supports oddball output formats like monochrome 8bpp, RGB565 for LCDs and bizarre arbitary resolutions down to 1 pixel high, which is really handy for stuff like generating LED matrix content.Also has good control over audio interleaving and formats.You can also write your own effects filters quite easily - I hacked up one for doing error-diffusion dithering to get near 24bpp quality on an RGB565 LCD.

author: Maxlor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 01:01:26 am
content: I'd use ImageMagick (it's a command line tool! *shock* *horror*) which makes this really easy:convert -delay 100 *.jpg movie.mp4

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2014, 01:45:55 am
content: oddly enough, quicktime has an option specifically for it :S i find that weird, why the heck does it have that function?https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/677635/_MG_1716.movhere is a small timelapse i did as a test, bloody mosquitos killed me as i set it up.