Raspberry Pi Time Lapse Photography

Shooting time lapse movies using a Raspberry Pi SBC and camera, and putting them together in Kdenlive.

You can download the code for the ice melting timelapse here:

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Other related ExplainingComputers episodes I refer to in this video are:

Raspberry Pi Camera Group Test:

Raspberry Pi 4 Week (in which I edit the whole video on a Pi 4 in Kdenlive):

Raspberry Pi Plant Watering:

Raspberry Pi Devastator Robot #2 (in which I cover autobooting in more detail):

More videos on SBCs and wider computing and related topics can be found at:

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Hardware & Code
06:28 Cool Movie
11:17 Cloud Computing
16:03 Wrap

[TheTechieScientist]

Loving the "cloud computing" chapter xD

[terrydaktyllus]

The origin of Mr. Scissors is revealed! He was born in Sainsbury's supermarket!

[billywallace]

About 30 years ago, a friend of mine set-up his camcorder and left it for a day to take a time-lapse of clouds from a window ledge in the office building where we worked in Glasgow (plenty of clouds here). That was the one day the window cleaners decided to come around, so his clouds time-lapse included several shots of leg silhouettes as the guys clambered around in front of the camera.

[loginregional]

This hearkens back to the nineties when I had an RCA editing VHS shoulder camera, which among its features was a variable time lapse selection, that I used on the Hibiscus, on several moonrises over a period starting from full to last quarter, and the sleeping snoring lump. Some people! Well worth the bucks, even better when I mated it to the Proscan editor which made nicely-nice between the two, each capable of controlling the other.

[AdamJessopmazdamjmx]

The black dots flickering in your clouds time-lapse video reminds me of the black dots flickering in old movie footage.

[insanemainstream]

Raspberry Pi has opened up the doors of photography on a budget. Thanks Chris!

[andrewd]

I often wondered how time lapse was done with a pi. Now thanks to this episode all has been revealed. Excellent video, as always.

[tonysheerness]

You spark the interest in people and show them how they can do things as well. You are a brilliant teacher. If only we could time lapse the life of a human, from birth to death and condense it into a short movie.

[MicrobyteAlan]

Absolutely Fabulous episode. Exactly what I was looking for, you’ve given me a lot of ideas. Thanks from overly sunny Orlando.

[John.z]

Excellent timing for this Chris - my new HQ camera should arrive in the next few days! This is most definitely one of the things I want to use it for.

[TheClembo]

Thank you, a very different look at 'cloud' computing, I could watch it all day! Thank you for your comprehensive video on time lapse photography and seeing your code now helps explain it a lot more.

[cyberpet]

Always a pleasure to watch another video on this channel.

[hal_from_all_nations]

This is one of my favorites videos!. Thanks Chistopher.

[-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

His projects are just getting cooler and cooler!

[randallnelson]

Now, if we reverse the video we will get a very good explanation of how ice cubes naturally form is a glass of water.
Excellent video and creates some interesting ideas for short videos.
Thank you

[liononline]

Bro everytime I watch any videos from you it gives me a feeling that your life stopped with you by 80's , ,, 😅😅😅😅😅😅 anyone else feels the same??
Thanks for the video! "Like"

[elementbr]

A cloudy sky in England - colour me surprised! Excellent video, I've been meaning to test out my camera, this has served as a good prompt.

[Chlorate]

I'm putting to action my plans to make a Raspberry Pi astro cam, getting the feeling I need to learn a bit of Python!

[HoboVibingToMusic]

Ever since that silent mini ITX pc, I've been looking out to build one.
I've finally settled for a 300$ (217 GBP) build that'll have 512 (or so) GB SSD, a J4125 CPU and 8GB DDR4 ram!
Thank you very much on that idea, It'll help me a lot when I just want to chill w/ videos, movies, or my huge music library <3

[Bigredtower]

I used a Pi 3 to capture a year-long time lapse of my front yard at one frame per-minute. Still rolling! :D Fun seeing the sun angles change over seasons.