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Topic: Webcam time-lapse help

Posted By: lenny
Subject: Webcam time-lapse help
Date Posted: 05 October 2004 at 4:23pm

Can anyone guide me to the simplest and cheapest method to compile a time-lapse movie from a webcam.

Here's the hitch, I'm running windows 98.

Thanks in advance

Lenny

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Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 05 October 2004 at 4:48pm

What's the source format? Pictures? Video? How long?

If it's from pictures, it's even easier, you can select say 1 in every 20 pictures and add that to the timeline.

As for software, I only use non-linear editing (Premier and VideoStudio) but there must be free progs for this task out there that will simplify and automate the whole process.

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Posted By: lenny
Date Posted: 05 October 2004 at 7:25pm

As an example:

On XP you can download Timershot (a powertoy for XP) which will take an image per specified time period. However this only works in XP. I need one for windows 98.

Compiling the images into, say, an AVI file is no problem, there are numerous apps for that.

So - is there an application which will allow a windows 98 user with a webcam to take images at specified intervals?

Lenny