Time-lapse help?

[JNDATHP]

We have a home being built across the street so I set up a cloned camera to take 10 second clips every hour but not to record at night. When these hundreds of clips are stored, how do I export all of them to one video? I would like to try with the 50 or so I already have to see if the periodic value is what I want.

Thanks

 

[alastairstevenson]

how do I export all of them to one video?

There are a variety of programs and apps that could do that, many of which are just plug&play.
I've used ffmpeg under Linux (also available for Windows, but I don't know if there are differences) to create timelapse videos from stills.
It's quite a complex package, but it does provide a fine-detailed ability to control the creation process.

Here are some sample command lines using filenames that Hikvision firmware creates from the timed ftp image capture capability:

ffmpeg -f image2 -pattern_type glob -i '192.168.1.66_01_2020*.jpg'  -r 25 -c:v libx264 video.mp4

The input framerate defaults to 25 - so that, with the number of images, then determines the output duration
if it's not over-ridden.
In terms of the end result, some experimentaion with input and output framerates is needed in terms of how inserted
frames affect how the video looks.

ffmpeg -v verbose -framerate 10 -pattern_type glob -i '192.168.1.66_01_202005*.jpg'  -r 25 -c:v libx264 video.mp4

And 7 times smaller than h.264!
ffmpeg -v verbose -framerate 25 -pattern_type glob -i '192.168.1.66_01_20200*.jpg'  -r 25 -c:v libx265 video1.mp4