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GoPro Time Lapse Question

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stickerman
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Hey guys,

i searched for some info on here but coulden't find anything so dont hate on repost. anyway so in toronto its supposed to snow like crazy tomorrow so im thinking about doing a time lapse of all the snow piling up. but i have a few questions.

my first question is what time interval should i film the time lapse at? i believe it can be set at every 2, 5, 10, 30 and 60 seconds. it is supposed to snow around 5cm an hour tomorrow, so how long should i keep the time lapse going? should the 2.5 hours the battery can last for be enough? I have an 8GB card for it and also have an extra battery. so i can just pop that in if needed.

thanks!
Feb 1 2011 11:59AM
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There is a video that I just made in my profile of a Go Pro timelapse.  It's nothing special, but I learned a few things making it (now I won't repeat those mistakes when something I really want to get comes up).

I used a 2 second time interval, but if you were looking to save battery I imagine a slower one would do just as well (especially if it's of something slow like snow accumulations).  Make sure you practice today with something trivial so that you are ready to go for "the show" tomorrow.  I had my camera freeze on me on my first attempt and only got 40 pics out of that attempt.

The time lapse I did only lasted an hour I think, and you can see some pretty significant changes in that amount of time.  However it was my 8GB card that filled up before my battery filled since I was taking a pic every 2 seconds.  Therefore I think it's fair to say that you should get the full extent of the battery used if you slow it down to 5 seconds.  Of course if you can simply swap your battery and pop in a new card after a while to double the time of your time lapse if you are still awake!

Thanks for the code too, your my favorite person right now.

Feb 1 2011 12:15PM
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I mean "you're".

Feb 1 2011 12:21PM
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stickerman
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thanks a lot for the tips man. im gonna do a test time lapse now and see how it turns out. i was reading some things on google aswell and some peoples camera's froze too. Hope you enjoy the screen for the gopro.
Feb 1 2011 12:51PM
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I've done it on 5 second intervals, and it worked pretty well.
Feb 1 2011 12:57PM
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Make sure you have the latest firmware too.  I don't know if it's related or not, but I haven't had a freezing issue since I updated it.  Couldn't hurt.
Feb 1 2011 1:02PM
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stickerman
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yup i have the new firmware installed. just finished doing a test and shot 150 pictures with no problem. so i think it should work out!
Feb 1 2011 1:16PM
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stickerman
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should i use my sony vegas 9.0 pro to do this time lapse? how short of a time frame should each picture be set to? Smail, is the picasa easy to use?
Feb 1 2011 1:53PM
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