Timelapse Bash Script

This two Mac OS bash scripts are made for take timed screenshots and put them together in a video.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. The License is WTFPL (see LICENSE.txt).

Features

• Take screenshots by custom interval.
• Custom screenshot's resolution and quality. (It's means support Retina screen.)
• Gather screenshots to create a video.

Requirements

• System: Mac OS X (10.8 or later)
• screencapture (built in to Mac OS X)
• ImageMagick
• ffmpeg

Useage

./recorder to start recorder. 'Ctrl+C' to stop. ./create-video.sh to make the video.

For customize:

In file recorder.sh

• Change screenshot's qulity by change "-quality 80%" in line 21.
• Change screenshot's resolution by change "-resize 800x600" to what you want value like: "-resize 1024x768" or "-resize 100%"
• Change screenshot capture interval by change "sleep 1;", default is take screenshot every 1 seconds.

In file make_video.sh

• To keep the screenshots after created the video, comments the line: rm output/screen/*.jpg
• Change the result vedio fps by change "ffmpeg -r 24" default is 24 fps.

Credits

This project crate by chengzhi yang.

Actually this project is modify from osx-timelapse(written by Patrick Ward) for support high resolution screen such as Retina screen.