ETL: Windows app to create timelapse images
Hello, this is going to be my first LudumDare, and I decided I wanted to create a timelapse movie. Well, I created ETL or Easy Time Lapse. Choose a file format (BMP or JPG), a minute interval (cannot be decimals), and click the button to begin. Tada! Screenshots will be created in a /screens directory.
Random info
- If you create a timelapse ever 1 minute, you will have 2880 images.
- The size of those bitmaps will be approximately 8.5gb
- The size of those jpegs will be approximately 500mb
Based on 3mb for BMP, 170kb for JPEG. The quality of the jpegs isn’t bad either, in fact, it’s great. I encourage you to try it out before hand, and sorry for releasing this so soon to the competition start but I hope at least one person will use it ;).
Link (Windows ONLY; any version should work): http://willhostforfood.com/users/Dazappa/ETL.exe [~500kb]
This program also doesn’t do anything fancy like adding in the time to the image. I wanted to release it ASAP.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Cool thanks! I’ll check it out. Can you restart if if you need to reboot or something?
August 8th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Yes. It uses a text file to remember where it left off in terms of numbering. If you notice when you press the button to start it, the text changes to stop it.