I’ve started to play with some fun functions of windows + webcam + timed shots = timelapse video. This is my first go. I have another video on my flickr stream, and on facebook of the sun setting with the light going down. The quality is extremely poor, but the effect is still as magic as those you see in documentaries.

I’m using the default windows drivers for my logitech webcam which produces a much smaller picture (160×120 pixels) than it’s capable (1248×1024 pixels). In the video above the pictures are upscaled. I hope to fix it and taken another series in the near future. I’m planning to take a whole day of pictures, and hopefully from a few angles out of the window.

The idea for this came from an article on lifehacker for making some cool timelapse videos at a house party using the inbuilt webcam of a mac laptop. I’m using the webcam timershot, as suggested from lifehacker, from the WinXP powertools. A utility to rename lots of files at once, the so called JoeJoe’s Rename Master. And finally to make the video itself VideoDub. If you have a mac, the process i believe is much simpler, you just need to follow the instructions on lifehacker. I’ll post more as I make them. The main issue, as you can imagine, is waiting for the images.