Raspberry Pi Time Lapse Photography

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Shooting time lapse movies using a Raspberry Pi SBC and camera, and putting them together in Kdenlive.

You can download the code for the ice melting timelapse here:
http://www.explainingcomputers.com/sample_code/Timelapse.py

IMPORTANT NOTE:
On October 30th 2021, a new version of Raspberry Pi OS was released known as “Bullseye”. This has new camera drivers that are not compatible with the terminal commands and Python camera code demonstrated in this video. Sorry. If you are running the version of Raspberry Pi OS known as "Buster", or an earlier version, things should work just fine. I discuss the matter in depth in my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykM5bvVURJw

Other related ExplainingComputers episodes I refer to in this video are:

Raspberry Pi Camera Group Test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NxpCirSqm4

Raspberry Pi 4 Week (in which I edit the whole video on a Pi 4 in Kdenlive):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ddj9_LMgU

Raspberry Pi Plant Watering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NTW0npN4N0

Raspberry Pi Devastator Robot #2 (in which I cover autobooting in more detail):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mglfhWZrQ

More videos on SBCs and wider computing and related topics can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/explainingcomputers

You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http://www.youtube.com/explainingthefuture

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Hardware & Code
06:28 Cool Movie
11:17 Cloud Computing
16:03 Wrap