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Watching Notch's Ludum Dare videos inspired me to create my first OS X app store app. It takes screenshots at a configurable interval and than creates H.264 enc
by passerinelabs 13y ago
Watching Notch's Ludum Dare videos inspired me to create my first OS X app store app. It takes screenshots at a configurable interval and than creates H.264 encoded video of the resultant timelapse.
Here it is: http://appstore.com/mac/ScreenshotTimelapse http://appstore.com/mac/ScreenshotTimelapse
Here are 25 promo codes if anyone wants to try it out: http://pastebin.com/K6Xx59jY http://pastebin.com/K6Xx59jY
- ryanmacg 13y agoLooks cool, I grabbed AKMYPYNNRPP9 Thanks!
- safwanc 13y agoThanks! I grabbed 9NNKANNR4MPL
- shawndumas 13y agoI grabbed JHMWL9XHAEF9 and thanks!
- srik 13y agoAll codes have been grabbed; saving you time to check. That said, the codes were a nice gesture. Will definitely put it in my list of apps to watch.
- passerinelabs 13y agoWow. Here's 25 more: http://pastebin.com/r2KVSmXp http://pastebin.com/r2KVSmXp I'm happy to hear any feedback: andrew at passerinelabs.com or @passerinelabs on Twitter.
- agravier 13y agoThank for those codes, Andrew. I have grabbed LYAEFN4PPWHW. I will use it to self-monitor my procrastination. My first feedback to you is that the first contact is great thanks to the app's minimalism. It's really unobtrusive. A second piece of feedback is that the menu bar icon looks poor on a retina display. I believe that one can use vector graphics (in PDF) or double the resolution (I always feel weird saying that, and want to say _quadruple_, but you know what I mean) to get a crisp rendering. I can screenshot what it looks like on my screen, if you have no opportunity to see it.
- passerinelabs 13y agoThanks for the feedback. I made the icon in Illustrator and then used photoshop to create the various icon sizes. Scaling down to the very small sizes (16x16, 32x32) didn't seem to produce great results. If the app ever turns a profit my first step will be to pay an actual graphics person to redo the logo and icons.
- roy_x 13y agoLYAEFN4PPWHW taken, thanks
- superchink 13y agoDamn. Missed out. All these are used again.
- jkubicek 13y agoThanks! I took KEMNTNLHRFTF
- Udo 13y agoVery nice, thanks :) I took XET4YHM63J7R
- j_s 13y agoSee also: http://www.timesnapper.com/ http://www.timesnapper.com/ for Windows (Classic version 'free forever'; doesn't seem to support stitching all the images together to export a video but should be do-able manually.)
- passerinelabs 13y agoFor OS X users, you can take a screenshot from the command line with /usr/sbin/screencapture, so putting together a little script to make a screenshot timelapse is pretty trivial. With that and ffmpeg you can replicate most of the functionality of my program in just a few lines of bash. :-)
- vijaykiran 13y agoIndeed :-) I use brew install watch watch -n10 'screencapture `date +%s`.png'
- msmith 13y agoI put something like this together a while ago. I think it still works. Just two scripts, ffmpeg, and a cronjob. https://github.com/msmith/caps https://github.com/msmith/caps.
- swah 13y agoNo mention of "video" on the page for the paid version either.
- rhizome 13y agoFFMPEG is the key, here: http://superuser.com/questions/343955/converting-images-to-video-using-ffmpeg-on-windows http://superuser.com/questions/343955/converting-images-to-v...
- MereInterest 13y agoOoh, shiny. I had been using MonkeyJam, which has no CLI and an annoying user interface. Out of curiosity, using ffmpeg, do you know how one would both combine a series of still images and add an audio track to it?
- obituary_latte 13y agoVery cool. I had been thinking for a while I wanted something like this. You are <= $2.99 richer now ;) Thanks.
- THEM 13y agoThanks for the promo code! Works great! ...will post a review for you.
- deanpcmad 13y agoLooks like a neat little app. Purchased :)
- bastijn 13y agoThat sounds like a lot of fun to try. Shame it is just an OSX App.