Timelapse
...takes screenshots and creates a video out of them to make a timelapse.
Goals
- Simple
- Minimal CPU usage
- Extendable
Why use this project?
There are many alternative solutions available. Most of them fall into one of these categories:
- Commercial applications
- Custom scripts based on Automator and AppleScript
- Freeware
This project provides an Open-Source alternative that is both, easy to use and understand.
Requirements
- macOS (any version)
- ffmpeg (run
brew install ffmpeg
)
Usage
First, install the project's dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Now run the main application from the commmand-line:
python timelapse
After that, a new icon appears in the menubar.
By clicking on it, you start and stop the screen recording.
Once you've finished recording, timelapse
will create a video for you
and print the output path to the commandline.
You can now quit timelapse.