1-hour driving time lapse...shoot at 1fps or 0.5 fps?

My friend and I are going on a 1-1.5hr road trip today and I'm not driving (for once!), so I thought I'd do a time lapse of it.

I have a G9, so I'm limited to shooting a frame every second or every 2 seconds (1fps or 0.5 fps). Playback is fixed at 15fps, so I'm going to be speeding things up either 15x or 30x.

I've just started playing with time lapse, so I'm not sure what would be more appropriate for driving (mostly highway)...15x or 30x?

Thanks in advance for any input

Sorry if this is the wrong category, but since there's no time-lapse section, I thought I'd just throw it in here

For an hour drive, do you want to end up with a 2 or 4-minute video? I think I'd shoot at 0.5 fps, but I'm no expert.

The best is to just try it, and see how it goes. Why not shoot half the trip at 1 fps and other at 0.5 fps.

Actually for a 1 hour drive it will be a 4 minute video at 1 fps or a 2 minute video at 0.5fps (half the number of frames = half the running time if playback speed is fixed.)

I know how long it will be with each setting And I have thought of doing half the trip one way, half the other, but I'd rather know, as I think the way up will be more interesting...but who knows. I have done the speculating myself, I was hoping to hear from someone who actually has experience in it.

But, I think I'll try shooting at 0.5fps and see what happens...I'm just afraid of boring my audience with a 4+ minute video of me driving

How fast (mph) will you be driving?

At 60mph you'll cover 88 feet at 1FPS or 176 feet at 0.5FPS.

IMHO 176 feet is a pretty long distance between shots if the scenery is not wide open corn fields.


Besides, can't you always double the frame rate with video post processing if you think its too long? You keep all the frames (details) but flip through them twice as fast.

I would go 0.5 and a slower fps maybe as low as 5 or 10 otherwise the distance per second will be to high