Timelapse Videos - General discussion, announcements and releases

RE: Timelapse Videos

dudenas — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:59:05 +0000

I'd like to use timelapse for debugging.

I have failures of two axis-shift on my Core One, which never happen in the first hour of different prints. I'm not sure when and what is happening, so can't even properly request support.

Timelapse could help me pinpoint the data: what layer does it happen on, maybe it is always on the same minute for all prints, or maybe same layer. Timelapse video would be very useful for that.

RE: Timelapse Videos

GovDubz — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:15:47 +0000

Did anyone end up following through with posting a time-lapse code? Or any news on the subject? I am trying to figure out a way to use a gopro 10 to do the whole time-lapse bit but hoping to find a way to do that and connect to prusa connect on a single device

RE: Timelapse Videos

Hazel — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:32:31 +0000

Not to be practicing necromancy here but @scott-gartner that timelapse looks really great and I'd love to get my hands on that python script, if you're sharing!

RE: Timelapse Videos

jschipf — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:39:57 +0000

Have you managed to improve your tools. I would be interessed in it.

Posted by: @scott-gartner
I put a bunch more time this weekend on improving my tooling to make it easier and faster to process the videos. One step closer to having something that can be released.

RE: Timelapse Videos

Dr Purple — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:37:50 +0000

I am also throwing in my vote for a Timelapse feature in Prusa Connect. I've been using a Beaglecam with my mk3 but I'd rather not use any 3rd party software/hardware anymore, especially with my new mk4.

3D printing is becoming increasingly more mainstream, timelapse videos are fun and impressive representations of what those great machines can do.

RE: Timelapse Videos

ShamusTheTinker — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:50:09 +0000

Built in camera's to record time lapses and remote check for issues are starting to show up on printers now straight from the manufacturer. I even saw one on the new resin printer coming from Elegoo soon. I figured with as much as Prusa likes to post with time lapse videos having a built in system would be an obvious feature to add.

RE: Timelapse Videos

Doug Moore — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:57:08 +0000

Count me in as someone that would find it very worthwhile to have a timelapse feature using a USB camera.

RE: Timelapse Videos

Scott Gartner — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:35:45 +0000

I'm not doing that, I'm using twitch to provide a live feed that I can check any time, but from what I understand the feature on Prusa Connect is intended to fill the same purpose, which is to provide a recent photo to detect when things have gone completely south. Because that's it's focus, it's not taking the picture relative to something happening in the printer, it's generally just time-based. I think you could argue that the camera for this use shouldn't be controlled by the printer because any problem with the printer could also effect its ability to control a camera. But either way, what this means is that you're going to get a time-lapse, but without any control over where the head is, control over motion blur, etc. In other words, you'll get a time-lapse, but not a pretty one.

I put a bunch more time this weekend on improving my tooling to make it easier and faster to process the videos. One step closer to having something that can be released.

Posted by: @shamusthetinker
Me too. I haven't looked at the code for the board, but it has a usb port. If they required a camera with memory storage on it, then it could tell the camera to snap and store a picture, then update the prusa connect page to compile the images into a timelapse.

RE: Timelapse Videos

ShamusTheTinker — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:17:17 +0000

Me too. I haven't looked at the code for the board, but it has a usb port. If they required a camera with memory storage on it, then it could tell the camera to snap and store a picture, then update the prusa connect page to compile the images into a timelapse.

Posted by: @scott-gartner
Duh, I just re-read your OP and I realize you meant that you were talking about the printer giving a signal to trigger a camera. I think it's unlikely, but I'd love to be proved wrong.
Posted by: @scott-gartner

Posted by: @shamusthetinker
That came out looking fantastic. Barring the devs adding it to the code so we don't need this, I'll be happy to use what you've made when you're done. I'll even be able to read it a bit as I've been learning Python for the last couple of years for school.
If you mean them adding parking to PrusaSlicer, I don't see that happening. They've completely broken the ability to run a script as part of the slicer process, so expecting them to implement a reasonable parking feature seems unlikely. I want to do a couple more tests and I need to clean up the code a bit before I release it. Shouldn't be a long wait.

RE: Timelapse Videos

Käsekuchen — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 07:44:37 +0000

I am interested in the code. I started programming timelapse with Python. My approach is to take pictures continuously with Opencv and always compare which pictures are most similar in defined time periods. First successes are good. Still need a little more time. I will go public as well