Day Time Timelapse, originally uploaded by clarkalastair.
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.
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Hi,
I've just started work on something very similar for a new build at work, and am having the same problem with the 160*120 resolution. I've actually tried installing the proper Logitech drivers to no avail. If you have any luck getting it about 160*120 I'd love to know how!
Good luck,
Rick.
Well the drivers I were using were the ones from Logitech, XP isn’t shipped with them apparently. What I meant about that is that it wasn’t going through the Logitech Software that’s provided with the drivers. I haven’t found any solution to this as of yet. What I really want is something I can use on Vista, I have a sneaky suspicion that this is a work around.
Hi Alastair,
I ended up just using a different webcam (an MS one) which is now taking pictures in 640*480, so it's definitely something to do with the webcam and not TimerShot.
Anyway, again if you find a solution I'd be very interested
Rick.
Thanks for letting me know. I’m sure it’s a driver issue. I’ll investigate if it’ll work with 3rd party, but I doubt there is much of a 3rd party windows driver scene.
Alastair
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