For stitching together daily clips, FFMPEG is indeed a powerful tool, but handling such scripts can get technical. I'm an IT guy, so technical is my bread and butter. For this project, the stitching has to be automated and scripted. I'm not going to spend any time in a video editor. I'm pretty much...

I'm still tweaking my process, but I'm getting closer to a final setup. I can' t count the number of times over the years that I've found dozens or hundreds of forum posts about precisely what I'm working on, but those posts end with a cliff-hanger and no resolution. I also often find people who pos...

Found some references to using FFMPEG to do this conversion from years past, but that is not working for me currently. Either the BVR format has changed or FFMPEG has changed, either way or for some other reason, FFMPEG doesn't seem to be a viable solution anymore unless anyone knows of a new trick ...

Just found this script and it's not working for me for a couple reasons. First is that the $oldvid variable isn't being translated into the foreach loop I think. I copied the params line into the loop though and fixed that problem. Second though, is a bigger issue, in that ffmpeg doesn't seem to lik...

I am building an automated workflow to produce time-lapse videos daily out of Blue Iris and the core function is working well. In another thread I explained how I have things set up to record video from one camera, then move that vide to a second storage location and export a time-lapse at that stag...

Pogo wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 2:38 am Very impressive. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks!

Here is another time-lapse that came out of Blue Iris and a camera on my roof pointed at the sky.

https://youtu.be/S_K4AivKb_I

I'll have videos posted to that channel daily once I get my new cam server hardware installed and finish up my scripts.

-- Update: Rather than delete this entire post, I figured I'd update it with a revelation in case anyone else runs into these kinds of issues. Both issues were pretty much taken care of with adjustments to the cameras themselves. In the UI for my cameras there is a noise filter setting. I'm not sure...

One update. I neglected to check the box for adding the text overlay and I do want that for my project. In case someone else does as well, it is in the convert/export settings where you set the time-lapse speed multiplier. "Add text/graphic overlays from direct-to-disk BVR" should be check...

Confirmed, this method is fully working. It does cause my NVR to be at 100% CPU at all times though when my normal load is around 50-60% with all of my cameras going. I have new NVR hardware on order now though, so I'm hopeful a new machine will take care of that and ensure that I can keep up with c...

Looks like this is working! It did not appear to be working at first, but I just had a backlog of queued exports. Once that caught up, I had my new camera exports happening as expected. I did change the storage setting from replace to export to a new file. Not sure if that was required, but it makes...