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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.