Time Lapse

Last week I made a timelapse video of the view out of my office window. I did it by using my Canon S30 and it’s bundled Remote Capture software to take a picture every 20 seconds for about 26 hours. Then, after much searching and experimenting, I bought Quicktime Pro and used it to compress the 5000 JPGs into a Quicktime video. You can see the results here. It’s 28 megs, so be careful there.

I learned a few important things I will use next time.

Use manual focus so the camera doesn’t start focusing on rain drops on the window.

Turn off the monitors so that they don’t put a huge glare on the windows at night.

Lock the door so the cleaning people don’t come in and turn on the light.

Find something more interesting to point the camera at.

Don’t even bother with free software to make the video. They all suck and crash.