Restores the time_lapse_video function

[nfahlgren]

Describe your changes
Our plan was to deprecate the pcv.visualize.time_lapse_video function because it required QT and that created conflicts with PlantCV add-on tools. Instead we were able to refactor the function to use imageio instead of OpenCV and restore the functionality without QT. This PR also updates the function inputs to remove the display parameter, which only prints out the filepath of the video but is provided by the user.

We might consider changing the output value. The function returns the frame size but I think it could instead not return anything, like pcv.print_image.

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Is this a: New feature or feature enhancement

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[joshqsumner]

I changed img_list to source so that we can pass str inputs similar to the edits for pixel_scatter_plot. I was considering if there was a time that we would want to pass a list of images already in numpy form but I didn't see a situation where that would be a real workflow. I'll approve this but it might be good to bring up in dev meeting tomorrow before merging.

[joshqsumner]

Made some edits and it looks good, glad to keep this in v5.