{"id":2178,"date":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2178"},"modified":"2017-02-05T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:29:58","slug":"itimelapse-ios-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/itimelapse-ios-app\/","title":{"rendered":"iTimeLapse, iOS app"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iTimeLapse\"<\/p>\n

There are a horde of time lapse apps on the Apple iOS app store now. A while back I tested iMotion – Stop motion animation for iPhone<\/a> and I’ve downloaded a few more. <\/p>\n

Yesterday I noticed iTimeLapse<\/a> had an update, listed in the fixes was – General crashy-ness fixed<\/em> which sounded good and I decided to give it another try.<\/p>\n

I set up my phone on the windowsill pointing at the trees and sky across the road. There is a choice of resolutions I choose 1280×960. I set the app to take a picture every 30 seconds and set it going. It seemed to be taking picture faster than that so I stopped, reset and started a few times (I even forced quit the app). Eventually I just let it do its own thing. After an hour or so it had taken 1333 images (Which the app tells me takes up 1339 mb on my phone) so I do not think that the Snap Interval<\/strong> is accurate\/working! However the resulting video worked out fine. <\/p>\n

On stopping the app you then have to render the video, my first attempt at one of the higher resolution settings failed, producing a block video, I tried again at a more sensible 640x 480 and this worked. The video was then watchable on my iPhone.<\/p>\n

There are several export options, I tried the Vimeo<\/a> option, which took a while but worked well and the Local WiFi Sharing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am a fan of a few other apps which have Local WiFi Sharing. Most apps that do this have a screen which shows an address to be typed into a browser, usually an IP address, although some support using bonjour in Safari. iTimeLapse does something different it show a link to TapShare.org<\/a> with a 3 figure number. You visit TapShare on your desktop, type in the 3 figure number and that opens the local iP. TapShare<\/a> is a service which offers this small utility to generate a 24 hour shortcode which can redirect to your local IP<\/em> via an API which iOS developers can use<\/a>. Being nosy I checked Safari and bonjour works too:<\/p>\n

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Leading to a webpage to download video:<\/p>\n

\n\"iTimeLapse<\/p>\n

This video was 46MB in size and didn’t make it through my mail system to posterous, a quick export fromQuicktime, iphone setting, shrunk it to 9MB which upload fairly quickly: Evening Sky<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the Vimeo version:<\/p>\n