
You can use any type of Raspberry Pi microcomputer to create time-lapse videos. And, best of all, there is no software to install as we will be doing everything at the command line of the terminal. There are many ways to accomplish this, we will see how a Raspberry Pi can be used for this task. Once a sufficient number of images have been collected, they are joined together and are used as individual frames in a video. The frequency depends upon how quickly (or slowly) the subject is changing, if you are taking images of clouds moving then you’ll want to do it a couple of times a minute, but if you are filming a plant growing then one or two times per day might be sufficient. A picture is taken periodically, ranging from one image every few seconds to an image every day or week. It’s a great method of filming something that occurs over a long period of time, such as changing weather or growing plants.īasically, time-lapse photography requires a camera that is mounted in a fixed position and that is focused upon an object that is slowly changing. The principle of creating time-lapse videos is pretty straightforward. Today, we will see how we can use the Raspberry Pi to create our own time-lapse movies.

Time-lapse photography is a technique that has been around for decades.
