Big Mountain, Whitefish, Montana Time Lapse Videos

I created some time lapse videos from the Big Mountain web cams today. They look pretty good on YouTube high quality:

Here's how.
1. Get a program called Ripper by Nimisis, or something similar.
2. find a website that hosts a live webcam, like this one, there are many.
Note that the extension must end in a picture format, like .jpg or .png etc. If a website does not, simply right click on the picture and select copy link location.
3. Paste this link into Ripper or other such software.
Ripper will automatically take a copy of the picture in intervals of your choice. Note than many web cams update once every minute.
4. Now that the pictures are on your hard drive, (make sure there are a lot as good time lapse is 25 frames per second!) you can use Ripper to create an AVI video. I created mine without compression to look the best.

Now to upload to YouTube in high quality using Any Video Converter:

5. Transcode the AVI to an MP4 using Any Video Converter (free)
-first add the .avi we just created in Any Video converter
-then Select Customized MP4 in profiles
-next, in video options choose:
codec: x264
Size: 640x480
Bitrate: 2500
Framerate: 30
6. Sign into your youtube profile and upload that baby.
Here are a couple more examples: