Time-lapse

Posted by kevglass (twitter: @cokeandcode)

August 16th, 2011 1:34 am

Anyone got any good recommendations for time lapse software for OSX? I’ll be using the powerbook but I really want to do the whole #LD48 experience properly, posting junk food, recording timelapse, making bad jokes and maybe even producing a game.

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5 Responses to “Time-lapse”

1. joekinley says:

   August 16, 2011 at 2:29 am

   I do it with a simple command line script and put the screens together with mencoder.
   If this is enough for you, I could post you the details tonight at home. But who am I asking, this is the only indie way of doing it anyways =)

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   • kevglass says:

     August 16, 2011 at 2:58 am

     Damn right, any details would be much appreciated.

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2. Neilo says:

   August 16, 2011 at 7:21 am

   I use ScreenNinja. Worked a treat last LD

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3. joekinley says:

   August 16, 2011 at 9:53 am

   So here I am at home.

   For taking Screenshots:
   hile [ 1 ];do vardate=$(date +%d\-%m\-%Y\_%H.%M.%S); screencapture -t png -x $vardate.png; sleep 10; done

   This does make a screenshot properly named every 10 seconds (change the sleep timer for your preference)

   Then for assembling the video:

   ls > files.txt

   mencoder -ovc lavc -mf w=1152:h=864:fps=20:type=png ‘mf://@files.txt’ -vf scale=576:432 -o screenlapse.avi

   This creates an 20 FPS video. Change FPS Time for your preference

   For adding audio to the file lateron:

   mencoder infile.avi -o outfile.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -audiofile audiofile.mp3

   Have fun

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   • joekinley says:

     August 16, 2011 at 9:54 am

     First command line shall be called “while” not “hile” at the beginning, just so you don’t wonder

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