Creating a Time Lapse video

boisy
boisy
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As the title says, I want to create a time lapse video.

I played around with the "Continuous Capture" setting after reading another forum post. I set the frames per second to (1/(60*15)) for one frame every 15 minutes, but what I ended up getting was a video file that would just hold the same frame for 15 minutes, then switch to the next frame and hold that for 15 minutes, and so on.

Can I create a true time lapse video that would play a series of frames very fast? The only way I can see doing that is to have SecuritySpy save an image every 15 minutes or so, then at some interval (say, at midnight), use ffmpeg to stitch them together into a video file.

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  • Ben
    Ben

    There is a "Playback rate" box under Preferences > Cameras > Continuous Capture - the number entered here will be used for the rate of playback of the movie file, no matter what the rate of capture is. So if you enter 10 in this box, the resulting movie will play back at 10fps.

  • boisy
    boisy

    Ahh, that's it! Thanks Ben. It was staring me right in the face. :)

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