mardi 19 novembre 2013

Use timelapse-darktable

timelapse-darktable: make your time lapse easy thanks to open-source community!

If you are familiar with darktable, you know that it is a powerful software to treat your raw images (and even JPG).
timelapse-darktable is based on this marvelous software to enhance your timelapse and make it brilliant!

Look at this example of deflickering with timelapse-darktable and understand its interest for timelapse video generation:

Try it now! And make time lapse video in 3 clicks

To use the last executable of timelapse-darktable type this command line to download the latest version:

svn checkout http://timelapse-darktable.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jar timelapse-darktable-read-only

Then execute the downloaded JAR (right click --> execute with Open with OpenJDK).

More information on "how to generate your timelapse" is available in the code repository wiki:
https://code.google.com/p/timelapse-darktable/wiki/generateTimelapse

Current version has been used successfully in the examples below with darktable 1.4.

Dependencies
timelapse-darktable requires that darktable, convert, octave and mencoder are installed.

To install these softwares on Ubuntu, type this command-line in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install darktable convert octave mencoder

Project is still in development waiting for motivated volunteers!

For now, timelapse-darktable is still in development, but you can already use it for your timelapse with very good results and give your feedback here. If you encounter some troubles let us know also to improve it.

If you want to join the project...
see: https://code.google.com/p/timelapse-darktable
you can download sources of timelapse-darktable (the latest version) here:
svn checkout http://timelapse-darktable.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ timelapse-darktable-read-only


5 commentaires:

  1. How many photos do you usually shot per hour for your videos?

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  2. Hi, the frame rate depends on the kinematics of the scene you shoot... It could be 1 photo every 4 secs for a "fast" scene with clouds during daylight, or 30/60 secs for shooting stars.

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  3. Hi I am trying to install this but am getting this error when I try to install the Dependencies:

    E: Unable to locate package convert

    Is there a type-o or do I need a special ppa for that?

    Thanks for your help. I am really looking forward to trying this!

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    1. Hi,

      on Linux all dependencies can be installed with the following command:
      sudo apt-get install darktable octave imagemagick mencoder

      for more explanation, did you look at:
      https://code.google.com/p/timelapse-darktable/wiki/generateTimelapse

      Cheers

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  4. Hi Alexandre!

    Thanks so much for working on this!

    Is this project still being worked on? I couldn't download the .jar from the Google Code Archive site, it gave me an errors. Is there another source where I could download it?

    Cheers,
    Umer

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