{"author_name":"newobj","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"moop","time":"August 20, 2010 2:15 pm","epoch":1282331700,"text":"I found this tutorial a month or so ago. Sounds like it’s along very similar lines though. I guess there’s no all in one app for it yet so everyone’s throwing together shell scripts for it.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"melior","time":"August 20, 2010 2:40 pm","epoch":1282333200,"text":"Looks like a job for a cron …uh… job:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"dRxL","time":"April 18, 2014 8:35 am","epoch":1397828100,"text":"Hi I’ve made a shell script that both continuously captures OS X screen(s) at preset intervals and combines these images into an mp4 movie file.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282331100,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"70148","p_author":"newobj","p_authorkey":"508198","p_urlkey":"105968","p_title":"OSX Timelapse","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282331100","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"508198","us_name":"newobj","us_username":"newobj","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

I haven’t been able to find a timelapse tool that works on OSX yet (Chronolapse runs, but doesn’t seem to start grabbing screencaps?), but as it turns out, it’s very easy to write a script to do this:<\/p>\n

while <\/span>true<\/span> ; do <\/span>sleep 60 &&<\/span> echo<\/span> `<\/span>date`<\/span>‘ Capturing screenshot…’<\/span> &&<\/span> screencapture -C -m -t jpg -x -f cap.`<\/span>date +%s`<\/span>.jpg ; done<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve put the script here in my LD project on github: http:\/\/github.com\/newobj\/ludumdare\/blob\/master\/tools\/osx-screencap.sh<\/a><\/p>\n

Just run this guy and you will start getting cap.*.jpg files in the current directory every 60 seconds. They’ll sort chronologically, which is necessary for compiling them into a movie.<\/p>\n

When you’re done and have your mountain of JPG’s, you can use Time Lapse Assembler<\/a> to turn them into a movie (it will also scale them down!)<\/p>\n

If anyone knows of a better solution than this for OSX, please enlighten me. \":)\"<\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2010 2:05 pm","title":"OSX Timelapse"}