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A Time-Lapsed Day

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Channel: AK49BWL · 2010 · Travel & Events

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02/11/2010
I've been wanting to do this for a while.. This is the view out of the front window where I live - - Over an 18 hour time span, starting at 12:52 AM (cut to 4:30 AM) and ending at 7:07 PM (Cut to 6:45 PM). Hope it's enjoyable!!

Here's how I did this:
The quality really could have been better, but unfortunately, my only camera that has built-in time lapse capability shuts itself off after 2 hours. This was done with my old Sony DCR-HC32 MiniDV camera, docked on a tripod, stood up on a box, powered by AC, and directly feeding the video output into my laptop, where Windows Movie Maker captured the video for 18 hours at 2 frames per second. Then I took the output files from the capture, fed them into the timeline and accelerated them 6x, which gave me a 17 minute straight run. From that, I started cutting out sections of the file, based on events (such as my mom, dad, and brother leaving and returning home) which you'll barely even see unless you're looking for them. Fed the times into a text document to keep track, then decelerated the entire timeline. This way, I was able to get exact times-of-day for the ending timeline, as that would have been impossible at 6x.. And I was not about to sit through 18 hours waiting for something to happen and cut the scene, LOL. Anyway, I wrote the times down with their corresponding 6x timeline time, and accelerated everything 6x, then saved the file. Now, this is only the beginning... I took the 6x accelerated file and fed it back into Movie Maker, marked the timelines at the cutscenes again, cut the beginning and ends off, and sped the remaining parts up two MORE times! This took the 17 minute file and turned it into a 3 minute 45 second file. Saved the project, then added the text... And saved the video, which is what you see here.

My little text file I made, which I would not have been able to do this without::

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Speed all up 6x from original TLDay--x.wmv files

Cut everything before 3:30, speed high to 4:44 when Mom leaves
 - 4:51 speed up high to 4:59 when Jeremy leaves
 - 5:07 speed up high to 9:58 when Dad leaves
 - 10:00 speed up high to 14:29 when Mom gets home
 - 14:32 speed up high to 15:07 when Jeremy gets home
 - 15:09 speed up high to 15:46 when Dad gets home
 - 15:48 speed up high to fade out at 16:52

TIMES!!!

(Left=Timeline, Right=Time of Day)

START IS 00:52
3:30 is  04:36
4:44 is  05:55
4:51 is  06:02
4:59 is  06:11
5:07 is  06:20
TLD1 Ends at 09:25 -- 8:31:54 on the timeline
9:58 is  11:31
10:00 is 11:34
TLD2 Ends at 11:34 -- 10:40:13 on the timeline
TLD3 Ends at 15:48 -- 14:54:11 on the timeline
14:29 is 16:21
14:32 is 16:25
15:07 is 17:02
15:09 is 17:04
15:46 is 17:44
15:48 is 17:46
16:52 is 18:47
END IS   19:07
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