Software to stich a series of photos together?

willhub

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Hi.

Someone I know has had a webcam looking over a building site for a while and had it taking a still every 2 minutes, what is the best software to use to take all these photos and link them together into maybe a video to basically play through them all.


Thanks.
 
My fault for wording the title correct I guess.

I mean so a series of images are put one after the other together to make a sort of time lapse video I think it's called, these images are taken of the course of the last 7 months, one every 2 minutes, they want making into a video so they're all played.
 
For free you could try using Windows Live Movie Maker but I've no idea how good the end result will be or how many photos it'll handle but it's a start and it won't cost you anything as it should already be on your PC being that it comes with Windows. Other video editing software will allow you to make a movie out of photos e.g. I've used Pinnacle Studio to do video from photos.

Edit: I've just tried Windows Live Movie Maker and you can indeed do this. You can also bung quite a few photos in it and adjust the amount of time each photo is displayed (Duration time in the Video Tools/Edit tab) and make the movie snap between photos pretty rapidly. This may be a good solution for you, certainly as it's free. If it can't except all your photos at one time I guess you'll have to create them in batches and create smaller movies and then use it again to put the smaller movies together to create your finished article.
 
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Will all have problems with the amount of images?

All in all the total file size is like 7.4gb and about 200,000 images.

Windows Movie Maker is not responding and the CPU is at 100%, is this likely to happen with even something like Quicktime Pro?
 
Are you trying to do all 200,000 photos at once? I should think WMM would struggle which is why you might want to break it down into batches creating smaller movies and then use it again to put those movies into one.

I've never tried anything on this scale so unfortunately I can't comment on which programmes will struggle and which won't. WMM was only a suggestion as it's free and you don't loose anything by trying.

Hopefully someone else will have more experience in this and help you out with suggested programmes that can cope with such a large amount of shots.
 
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