Re:First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
by pavel_lishin on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:09PM
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Ouch. I'll be going on a long bike ride in a month, and I was wondering if I could generate a hyperlapse of it... but it's going to be at least four hours, which doesn't bode well.
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Back of the envelope, i get 7680 frames to process, one minute each which is just under $1300 for a medium windows azure instance. Not cheap, but probably doable. I'd bet you could spend a few hours fiddling with large memory instances versus medium, and find a sweet spot.
Set aside $50-100 a month, it'll probably be a lot cheaper in a year. (assuming optimizations and cheaper cloud services)
Or you could just buy a computer and stick it in a corner running 24-7. After it has finished selecting/rendering, you have both a video and a computer you can use afterwards.
Re:First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
by pavel_lishin on Monday August 11, 2014 @10:09AM
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Yeah, I'm more likely to go with this option, rather than spend over a grand on a video that may end up looking like crap anyway.