How to create time-lapse movies from JPEG stills

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The Mission

Trying to combine many .jpg-files into one movie, using my Mac with Mac OS X 10.8 Snow Leopard.

The Solution(s)

Using ffmpeg

  • Download and install ffmpeg either via homebrew, compiling or just downloading binary from: http://ffmpegmac.net
  • This…
    ~/bin/ffmpeg -t 20 -f image2 -r 1 -loop 1 -i "%05d.jpg" -r 30 "out.mov"[1]
    …will create a movie with 1fps, TBD

Using mencoder

  • tbd*

  1. Since the pictures taken are named like this: 2014-03-30_10-17-02.jpg, you will have to rename them, for example with a little script or Better Finder Rename