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DSLR time lapse movies

Posted on June 27, 2022January 17, 2025

Lately, I have been on a night time photography kick. After a evening of night time imaging with my DSLR I built a quick time lapse movie from over 350 images captured over the course of 6 hours.

Playing with night imaging to create a time lapse movie
Playing with night imaging to create a time lapse movie
root@JLR-Lenovo:/mnt/c/Users/jim/Pictures/Jupiter-House/movie2# ffmpeg -start_number 5101 -i IMG_%d.JPG -c:v huffyuv jupiterhouse.avi
 ffmpeg version 3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
   built with gcc 7 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)
   configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.18.04.1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librubberband --enable-librsvg --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzmq --enable-libzvbi --enable-omx --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-sdl2 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdrm --enable-libiec61883 --enable-chromaprint --enable-frei0r --enable-libopencv --enable-libx264 --enable-shared
   libavutil      55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100
   libavcodec     57.107.100 / 57.107.100
   libavformat    57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100
   libavdevice    57. 10.100 / 57. 10.100
   libavfilter     6.107.100 /  6.107.100
   libavresample   3.  7.  0 /  3.  7.  0
   libswscale      4.  8.100 /  4.  8.100
   libswresample   2.  9.100 /  2.  9.100
   libpostproc    54.  7.100 / 54.  7.100
 Input #0, image2, from 'IMG_%d.JPG':
   Duration: 00:00:03.68, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
     Stream #0:0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj422p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 3888x2592, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
 File 'jim.avi' already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
 Stream mapping:
   Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (mjpeg (native) -> huffyuv (native))
 Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
 [swscaler @ 0x7fffbf9cc740] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbfa04060] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbf9c2580] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbfc719a0] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbfd82380] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbfe93020] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbffa3e40] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffc00b4c60] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffc01c5a80] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 [huffyuv @ 0x7fffbf5585e0] using huffyuv 2.2.0 or newer interlacing flag
 Output #0, avi, to 'jim.avi':
   Metadata:
     ISFT            : Lavf57.83.100
     Stream #0:0: Video: huffyuv (HFYU / 0x55594648), yuv422p, 3888x2592, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
     Metadata:
       encoder         : Lavc57.107.100 huffyuv
 frame=   92 fps=7.4 q=-0.0 Lsize=  593593kB time=00:00:03.68 bitrate=1321388.8kbits/s speed=0.297x
 video:593585kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.001316%

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