12-month hyperlapse - Any advice?

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Continuing the discussion from Dronelink:

I’m planning a long hyperlapse to put together a film of the garden changing over the year. My ‘mission’ does an arc down one side of the garden and along the bottom. It’s about 300m, which I’ve set to fly at 2mph, taking a photo every second.

All in, each flight will be 277 photos… which would be 11 seconds of video at 25fps.

If I run it at 1mph it’s 552 pictures/22 seconds. I’m tempted by that as it will give more scope for editing at the end…

My idea is to fly the mission ever few weeks, then edit it together to so that it ‘zips’ smoothly between seasons, slowing down for a few seconds on each big change.

It’s a long project to undertake just to get to the end and realise that I should have taken more pictures… or to get to the end and realise I’ve got too many to be useful.

Anybody got any hints or tips… or advice on how many pictures becomes too many?

Quick calculation - 552 raw photos from the M2P every 2 weeks for a year is 14.3k photos taking just under 600GB for storage. Those are quite scary numbers.

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Not as such, more of a consideration…

Time of day, when are you planning on doing this? You may need to run it as close to midday (or X other time) as possible in order to maintain the same level of solar elevation?

You might also need to factor in cloud events, eg. tell yourself you’ll only fly when it’s 100% cloud-free?

I only know, from filming bits of timelapse with the Osmo on bypass their building in my back garden, different lighting conditions on different days played havoc with the final version.

Just worth a thought (or a few test runs at least).

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Ah, good point. Had been thinking of doing it a regular 1 hour before sunset, but noon would probably be more consistent. :slight_smile:

Hadn’t considered the cloud. This being Scotland, maybe better to tell myself only when there’s 100% cloud cover rather than 100% cloud-free :wink:

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From a similar post a while back

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Yes, very much like that… though that’s a video with fade transitions rather than Hyperlapse. Looks good though - now thinking I need to do some videos as I go too, just in case the Hyperlapse is a bust :wink:

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Had to laugh, your a 100% right on the cloud thing.
In fact I really don’t think your project is possible due to the lovely
rainy Scottish weather.:cry:

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Right, so first run of the DroneLink mission was a mixed bag.

The drone came back, which was the most important thing.

However… although it allows you to set the interval for photos to every second, it uses the timer on the drone, which for the M2P doesn’t go below 5 seconds. So instead of 522 pictures I’ve got 110 and there’s just a little bit too much movement between them.

Can’t (that I can see) get the pictures to take any faster, so I’ve dropped the drone speed from 1mph to 0.5mph. Still not the number of pictures I wanted, but if I go slower it’ll blow the battery.

So, weather permitting,… attempt two tomorrow.

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Have you thought of just taking a video and then speeding it up?

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I have a second mission plugged in following the same route but videoing,… going see which comes out better. Unfortunately, the DroneLink setup let me pick a video resolution the M2P can’t handle, so that’s another one to redo tomorrow :wink:

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