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Introduction

This is the beta version of a small tool I have written to aid the production of timelapse videos from a range of different sources including images and videos.
The main rationale of this was to speed up the process of utilising ffmpegs functionality in building weather related timelapses of the day and given the lack of simple tools out there I decided to write my own.

At this moment only Windows is supported.

Please note that this is currently a beta release but feel free to report any bugs or feedback.

How To / Readme

The application is very simplistic in nature at this stage, but it has been designed with timelapes in mind to reduce the mumber of settings to be applied.

Firstly, select your input files. [ 1). Select your files ]
The application will load these files into the list, determine the format of the files and sort them ordering to filename. You will see both the input and ouput video types are now prepopulated.
Secondly, set the video out settings. [ 2). Video settings ]
At the moment this area is limited to the core settings needed to produce the video. There is an assumption here that the video out will be of the same quality as that going in thus it will try to push out at the best quality.
Thirdly, Select a save file [3). Click "Set Folder"]. Select a destination folder, there is no need to enter an extention here.
Finally, hit "Start!" and wait for the status bar to go green.

What else can it do?

Joining video files..

Along with speeding up clips, the program can also join video files quickly. For example, if you have a number of video files you would like to merge into one file, simply select all of the files and do not choose a "transcode" option such as changing any video settings. FFmpeg will simply use the copy functionality to produce the output file fairly quickly.

Which controls do what..

Select Files
Specifies a list of files to be used in the time-lapse generation. This can comprise of either images, video files or even just one video file. Once you have selected your list using the Windows selector, they will appear in the list below the “Select files button”. It will attempt to sort by name A – Z.

Input Video type
Specifies the type of video/file detected as per that in the main list. It will usually detect the actual core video format rather than the wrapper. So for example, your video may be a .MOV file but you see h264 detected. This is correct, as the MOV extension is simply a wrapper around the video much like Mp4.

Output Video type
Specifies which format you would like the output video to be in (limited at present).

Video Speed
Determines how fast to speed the video up (1X is normal running speed). This setting is disabled when images are being used as the input as the speed is determined by the framerate (e.g 30 would result in 30 images being visable every second)

Set Folder
Allows you to select an output folder for the new file to be placed.

Status Bar
This gives an indication of what FFMPEG is doing, once it has finished transcoding it will turn green with a status of ""

Prerequisites

FFmeg is required in order to use this application. It can either be installed using the official FFMPEG installer or in a portable form in a folder. So long as ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe are available the application will work (You need to speicify the location of the folder). This keeps the size of the application small.

.net 4.5 is also required to run the application.