Long exposure images from videos

24 · Nithin Bekal · Jan. 15, 2024, 8:43 p.m.
Last summer, I was at the Chaudiere Falls in Ottawa. A long exposure photo would have been perfect to capture the turbulent cascades of the falls. Unfortunately, I didn’t have an ND filter with me. Instead, I decided to capture a short video on my phone to see if I could convert its frames into a long exposure. There’s probably better ways to do this using Photoshop or GIMP, but I wanted to do this using a simple command line script that takes a video and generates an image. Steps to convert a v...