I completed my first ever time lapse video with my web cam today. It didn’t turn out too bad, though you can really tell I have it on the inside looking through a window and screen.
I setup this webcam to upload an image once a minute to my linux machine. Once I had all the images, I ran the script below. It takes all the images generated and names them sequentially.
ls *.jpg | nl -nrz -w4 | while read a b; do mv "$b" $a.jpg; done
Once you have all the image files named correctly, you can run ffmpeg. I’ve included my sittings here.
ffmpeg -r 10 -b 2048k -bt 768k -i %04d.jpg out.mp4
Equipment/Software:
- D-Link DCS-920
- ffmpeg
