OK, so we've been building a new building here at work, and I wanted to do a stop motion movie of it. I've done it before, looks way cool, oohs and aaahs at the opening ceremonies.
This time I forgot to not take pictures at night, so approximately half my movie is boring nothingness.
So now I've got not quite 100,000 jpegs, each taken 5 minutes apart, and with sequential file names (2000000001.jpeg, 2000000002.jpeg, etc)
I need to get rid of the boring night stuff. I've tried making my movie and using a NLE (premier on a winxp box) to remove the night stuff, but my skills are weak in that area, and it took forever to just do a few days worth of it, and it would take me weeks to finish it that way.
I'm thinking I'd need to loop thru all the files and check the creation date and then get rid of whatever happened from 7pm to 6am, then re-loop thru them again and rename them so I'm back to consecutive file names (berkeley's mjpeg encoder doesn't like to skip anything in a sequence of names).
Any creative ideas on this?