Jerky timelapse. What did I do wrong?

Hov1s posted this 09 February 2016

Hi, I'm building an extension on the back of my house and thought it might make a cool timelapse video. I have set up a trailcam in a fixed location to record progress, and am regularly emptying the memory card to a file on my pc. So far I have 12,500 images all numbered sequentially.

What have I done wrong? I'm imagining it's a file numbering issue, but I have no idea what but when I form a timelapse from the folder, it plays great, - but it's not in order! It seems to show a few files from the middle (all in order), and then one from the beginning, then a few more from where it left off in the middle, and then the next one from the beginning, repeating this pattern the whole way through. How can I stop this to make my film speed up time rather than jump backwards and forwards in time?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Time-Lapse Tool posted this 09 February 2016

Hi,

Right now software orders frames by their filenames but takes possible number suffixes into account. Perhaps filenames have some numeric limitations, e.g. 000-999, then repeats same numbers. As workaround you could group files in few folders than import each folder as sequence to the project.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Time-Lapse team

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