Bug 399311

Summary: Time Lapse photo oganisation
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: christian.pietzsch
Component: Searches-DatesAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, christian.pietzsch
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: All   
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Description christian.pietzsch 2018-10-02 16:43:54 UTC 
Hello,
 working on very long time lapse at the moment, i got some ideas for Digikam.
I underestimated the whole duration taken so I chose to short of interval and ended up with way too many photos. 


Since I use Digikam to organize all my photos I think it would be great if it had a feature to support people with time lapses (not create them).

I imagine it like this:

1) photos get taken (some with different intervals)
2) Digikam takes time stamp and extract the different intervals from it
3) Digikam offers different potential consistent intervals 
4) possibility to delete excessive photos between the intervals

Example:
1) photos taken with 5s, 10s and 30s interval
3) Digikam offers 30s and multitudes of 30s as consistent intervals (30s/1min/1min 30s/2 min/...)
4) 1min 30s chosen
5) option delete unused photos is checked --> only on third of the pictures get kept

WHat also could be interesting could be to be able to automatically tag different intervals so you could easily make different short clips with different time lapse speed.

If this idea is interesting for Digikam, I can make a short mock-up the way I could imagine it.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2018-10-03 04:27:40 UTC 
The timeline search tool give histograms of frequency shots in time. This is exactly the kid of tool that you talk in your whish. Did you take a look ?

Gilles caulier
Comment 2 christian.pietzsch 2018-10-07 00:11:58 UTC 
I looked at the Timeline Feature but it doesn't cover the different things I described.
The shortest time unit you can choose is one day and it will only show you the amount of pictures taken and not the interval. 

It also doesn't allow marking/deleting files that are different from the wished interval. 

It is excellent for seeing when photos were taken but not good for organizing time lapse photos.

(In reply to christian.pietzsch from comment #0)
> Hello,
>  working on very long time lapse at the moment, i got some ideas for Digikam.
> I underestimated the whole duration taken so I chose to short of interval
> and ended up with way too many photos. 
> 
> 
> Since I use Digikam to organize all my photos I think it would be great if
> it had a feature to support people with time lapses (not create them).
> 
> I imagine it like this:
> 
> 1) photos get taken (some with different intervals)
> 2) Digikam takes time stamp and extract the different intervals from it
> 3) Digikam offers different potential consistent intervals 
> 4) possibility to delete excessive photos between the intervals
> 
> Example:
> 1) photos taken with 5s, 10s and 30s interval
> 3) Digikam offers 30s and multitudes of 30s as consistent intervals
> (30s/1min/1min 30s/2 min/...)
> 4) 1min 30s chosen
> 5) option delete unused photos is checked --> only on third of the pictures
> get kept
> 
> WHat also could be interesting could be to be able to automatically tag
> different intervals so you could easily make different short clips with
> different time lapse speed.
> 
> If this idea is interesting for Digikam, I can make a short mock-up the way
> I could imagine it.