christmas commute

I did a 725-mile drive yesterday from Prosser, WA to San Francisco, CA. I captured the daylight hours with a GoPro timelapse and turned it into a video!

This was the actual loop we took, including the trip up to Washington. We spent two nights in Oregon – one in Grants Pass and one in Portland.


My GoPro mount held the pictures upside down, so I transformed all of them with a quick

for f in upside-down/*; do
    convert $f -rotate 180 $(basename $f)
done

and then transformed all of the images into an MP4 with

brew install ffmpeg
ffmpeg -framerate 24 -pattern_type glob -i '*.JPG' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

I learned that I would do several things differently for the next timelapse:

1. find a soundtrack
2. angle the gopro up more and/or crop the video down to get rid of the dashboard
3. use a smaller photo interval, probably 1, 2, or 5 seconds.
4. use the “capture setting” to flip it upside down instead of flipping it “in post”.
5. set up the correct time, date, and resolution for the pictures.
6. Probably act like an actual photographer and lower the resolution at night in the hope that we could still catch some short exposures.