Timelapse tutorial from Carrie Anne’s Geek Gurl Diaries
Even though Carrie Anne Philbin is working here at Pi Towers now, she’s still carrying on with the Geek Gurl Diaries YouTube channel that she set up before she joined us – for which we’re all profoundly grateful, because her videos are some of the best tutorials we’ve seen.
Here’s the latest from Carrie Anne: a tutorial on setting up the camera board, making timelapse video, and creating animations.
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20 comments
Mark Swope
When I first glanced at the title of this post, I thought we were going to watch a time-lapse of all of the Geek Gurl diaries to see Carrie Ann evolving in her role. This version is good, too :-)
Zachary Igielman
Great stuff Carrie-Anne! I’m a fan of time lapses, you can see mine here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1M67dcO5Valg2o6OT5NW6R49gi6HngQT
And my write-up on how-to do them here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=67109&p=490822#p490822
Markus
Kewl, like the stopmotion bit also. With this and the new slow-motion feature my daughters will have some fun with the pi-cam.
Tom
Miss Philbin once again makes it look easy and fun. I think I’ll make a timelapse of my cat Belle as she prowls the back yard.
Raspberry Pi Staff liz — post author
Brilliant, isn’t she. :D
Jeremy
Could this great stuff, and similar, from her be made permanently available on the website – perhaps as a new dropdown “Tutorials” alongside Forum and FAQs?
Stu
This is going to be so helpful for the ‘Hamster Party Cam’.
Carrie Anne
That’s really the reason I made the video. Hamster Party Cam is my ultimate goal.
Stu
My daughters Pi came yesterday. I’ll get an IR cam for it today and hopefully we can sort something out for the weekend.
I should warn people though that one of the hamsters (Tric) is no more so it’ll be a more sombre party than previously planned.
Carrie Anne
RIP Tric
:'(
Stu
Got it working via your tutorial, run a test on my window which worked fine. Ran two tests on the cage, first night it switched itself off about 5am and the lazy git hadn’t moved all night. Second night I heard him going crazy but it switched itself off before he’d gotten up.
I’m wondering if the shaking of the cage or the fridge (that the cage is on) is causing problems. Anyway, back to a window test tonight.
Richard Mitchell
Thanks Carrie Ann
Pi-Mation is just what we are looking for to do my lads poster project.
James Robinson
Thanks, did this with some students today, they loved it.
We now have 5 Pi dotted about school, capturing “a day in the life…”
Scott
quick question.. I’m very new to all this but after watching I wanna understand before I start. How does the pi know where to put the images? or do I need to put that long line in after I change directories or do I do it from the root directory? Also, is there other documentation on how to change the number of pictures taken per min. sec.. or the like.. and the amount of time it actually takes the pictures.
Also… how much room or space do I need for so many pictures? will my 8 SD card hold um all?
Thanks for the great work and all the help!
James Robinson
The pictures will be stored in whatever directory the command in run from.
To change the number of images per second you change the -tl paramenter.
1000 = 1 per second.
500 = 2 per second
250 = 3 per second etc
If you change the -t parameter that will increase the duration.
3600000 = 1 hour
1800000 = 30 minutes
in theory raspistill –help should show other options available.
Paolo Negrini
Great post, you can really get good results even with a simple setup. I did a very simple project using the Raspberry Pi own box, tape and command line.
http://paolonegrini.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/one-day-in-zurich-gone-in-seconds-time-lapse-with-raspberry/
SJ
Hello
Thank you for you video. this is very helpful.
I have a quick question.
you know when I command the line the camera start right away. but I want to take a pictures 5 minutes later.
I mean when I command the line and wait 5 minutes then start to take picutres every 10 seconds during 1 minutes.
raspistill -o image_%04.d.jpg tl 10000 -t 60000
where should I add 300000(5 minutes)?
can you tell me how to do this?
AndrewS
Just chain a couple of separate commands together onto one long line:
sleep 300; raspistill -o image_%04.d.jpg -tl 10000 -t 60000
AndrewS
(and get rid of the dot between the ‘4’ and the ‘d’)
Superdrac
Thank you really much for your tutorial !
I just made some little tests, we can see one of them here (it’s very fast),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYt4rSG8U0I&list=UUhdU5LDM3foveoyCGtwXyTQ
I will now try to take à storm :D