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All source code released under the BSD License unless otherwise specified
© 2010, Gavin Black

Timelapse Video

Overview

A really simple script to capture video from a window or the entire screen. It captures frames at a given interval, thus creating a timelapse effect. It's been useful enough I'm giving it a post of it's own. It does depend on ffmpeg being installed though.

Source Code

Source Tree: http://devrand.org:8080/cgi-bin/cgit/timelapseVideo/tree/
Snapshots: http://devrand.org:8080/cgi-bin/cgit/timelapseVideo/commit/
Git Access: git clone http://devrand.org:8080/git/timelapseVideo

Example Video

Usage

./timeLapse.sh DELAY_IN_SECONDS NUMBER_OF_CAPTURES [MUSIC]
Examples:
./timeLapse.sh 5 1000
would take 1000 captures, one every 5 seconds. 
./timeLapse.sh 60 1440 test.mp3
would take capture a frame every minute for a day, and put the audio of test.mp3 with the resulting video.

Conclusion

Simple yet handy, not much else to say :p It's incredibly trivial, and the simple technique can be used to do other types of video creation.

Last Edited: 2010-10-24 04:15:05

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