How to make a Stop Motion or Time-lapse video with webcam?
- by Seppo Erviälä
I have a webcam that works as a v4l2 device.
What is the most convenient way to capture either a stop-motion or time-lapse video?
N.B.
stop-motion and time-lapse are related but conceptually different.
Time-lapse is where you take a photo of a scene at a set interval and then combine it into a video (that looks like it's going really fast).
Stop-motion is where you control the scene and take an image for every change you make, to form an animation (eg Wallace and Grommit).
An application for time-lapse needs to be able to take a photo at a set interval.