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* '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx5Z5iDn-GU The Little People]''', our first timelapse of the Plaza Mayor at one image every second was so successful—although with cuts, irregularities and poor image resolution—that we uploaded it to the Internet, along with an interpretation of [[Alfonsina y el mar]] by [[Elena]]. | * '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx5Z5iDn-GU The Little People]''', our first timelapse of the Plaza Mayor at one image every second was so successful—although with cuts, irregularities and poor image resolution—that we uploaded it to the Internet, along with an interpretation of [[Alfonsina y el mar]] by [[Elena]]. | ||
* '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kglwFIeiocA 17 hours in the life of a Plaza Mayor]''' and its '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRDJ03bT168 faster version]''', our second timelapse of the Plaza Mayor, this time at a reduced repetition rate (one image every 10 seconds) but for 17 hours, with the sounds and rythms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyryab Zyryab] from [[Paco de Lucía]] and his sextet. | * '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kglwFIeiocA 17 hours in the life of a Plaza Mayor]''' and its '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRDJ03bT168 faster version]''', our second timelapse of the Plaza Mayor, this time at a reduced repetition rate (one image every 10 seconds) but for 17 hours, with the sounds and rythms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyryab Zyryab] from [[Paco de Lucía]] and his sextet. | ||
− | * '''[https://www.keek.com/!5o8Qdab Sunset over the Palacio Real de Madrid]''', zooming on the Palacio Real as the sun sets somewhat on the left of the captured frame. | + | * '''[https://www.keek.com/!5o8Qdab Sunset over the Palacio Real de Madrid]''', zooming on the Palacio Real as the sun sets somewhat on the left of the captured frame. And '''[keek.com/!pKeUdab Atardecer del Sabado Santo]''' (with some flickering at the beginning). |
* '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TxN02gR2a4 Ruido]''', a view of our ''azotea'' during a [[Blog:Felipe_III_6,_6B/Dining_at_the_Plaza_Mayor|dinner at home]] (so we make frequent appearances). | * '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TxN02gR2a4 Ruido]''', a view of our ''azotea'' during a [[Blog:Felipe_III_6,_6B/Dining_at_the_Plaza_Mayor|dinner at home]] (so we make frequent appearances). | ||
* '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tKKbN81MI Procesiones del Viernes Santo 2014 en Madrid]''' [https://plus.google.com/113703263025599260211/posts/EYVZvK9Cjo3], with a bit of hyperlapse and real-time footage. | * '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tKKbN81MI Procesiones del Viernes Santo 2014 en Madrid]''' [https://plus.google.com/113703263025599260211/posts/EYVZvK9Cjo3], with a bit of hyperlapse and real-time footage. |
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Time-lapsing is a trick of technology to get rid of our limited perception of time. By recording shots and playing them back at a different speed, one can reach to the other timescales, namely, the slow ones for time-lapses and the fast ones for slow-motion.
we currently work (as of 30 December (2013)) on time-lapsing of the Plaza Mayor from our vantage point at Mayorcita.
Our friend Carlos is also exploring time-lapsing and once in a while releases some publicly. Notable are:
There are many mind-boggling timelapses of Madrid.
We work both with our Nikon D40 camera and our HTC smartphone.
We started with (http://www.lapseit.com/ LapseIt] (the nonfree Pro version), which however is buggy as it freezes or crashes completely if the repetition rate is too high.
There is a list here of other applications to try. To remedy the shortcoming of lapseit, I'll try them all in order until I find one that works well enough.
TimeLapse! looks good but does not save frames but exports the movie directly. We used it to capture the Sunset over the Palacio Real de Madrid.
The D40 has no built-in feature, so we recourse to gphoto2~[2].
The following is a basic setting to capture (here every 30s):
gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download --filename "%Y-%m-%d..%H%M%S.jpg" --interval 30
To assemble the frames into a movie (15 fps):
avconv -f image2 -r 15 -i imageSequence0000%04d.jpg -vcodec libx264 output.mp4
To add the timestamp on the image itself (say at position 10x470), use this script:
#!/bin/bash timestamp=`date -r $1 +%H:%M` echo $timestamp; convert -draw "text 10,470 '$timestamp'" $1 $1.jpg