Time laps video question

Bambu Lab X1 Series Bambu Lab X1C
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Hi all not sure if this is the right place to ask this so please admins if its wrong can you move it to the right spot. I have just started to post my prints to my you tube channel, i am just posting the full print , so if its 5 hours its a 5 hr video. i have been asked to post the time laps vids but i dont have them , i know how to turn it on in studio but what are you guys/gals using to make them i cant afford expensive video software so if you can point me to the right place to learn i would very much appreciate the help. thanks all respectfully

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Edit the video with MS Clipchamp and increase the speed there. This is one possibility.

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Is it different for the x1 ? on the A series it studio/device/sdcard

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The timelapse videos are stored as MP4 files in a subdirectort on your SD card. Here is a wiki on the topic. Scroll down to the bottom for an explanation of where the files can be found and how to retrieve them via Bambu Studio.

There are two more alternatives to downloading them from the SD Card. The first of course is to remove the card and insert it into your computer and copy the files manually.

The second is to use FTP in LAN mode. If you’re not comfortable with LAN mode there are plenty of posts here on that topic. You can use a free FTP client like WinSCP or FileZilla. I find WinSCP more robust and FileZilla has recently added nagware features that the developer refuses to remove even though its open source.

Alternatively, if you are comfortable with command line utilities, you can take your existing full length MP4’s and convert them to time lapse. The two programs that do this are FFMPEG and ShotCut.

For FFMPEG, which is the quickest tool, here is the command line to convert full length video to time-lapse:

ffmpeg -i input_video.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=0.1*PTS" output_timelapse.mp4
  • Replace input_video.mp4 with the name of your video file.
  • The setpts=0.1*PTS speeds up the video by 10x (adjust the number to control the speed).

FFMPEG Download
https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Shotcut download which is menu driven with a GUI interface.

You can download it here or just go to the Microsoft Store in Windows and download it from there.

Although its a powerful tool, there is a pretty hefty learning curve. I’ve used both and Shotcut’s editing suite of tools does allow for some pretty cool functions.