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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 encoded video of the resultant timelapse.

Here it is: http://appstore.com/mac/ScreenshotTimelapse

Here are 25 promo codes if anyone wants to try it out: http://pastebin.com/K6Xx59jY

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All 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.

Wow. Here's 25 more: http://pastebin.com/r2KVSmXp

I'm happy to hear any feedback: andrew at passerinelabs.com or @passerinelabs on Twitter.

Thank 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.

Thanks 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.

LYAEFN4PPWHW taken, thanks

Damn. Missed out. All these are used again.

See also: 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.)

For 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. :-)

Indeed :-) I use

brew install watch watch -n10 'screencapture `date +%s`.png'

I 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.

No mention of "video" on the page for the paid version either.

FFMPEG is the key, here: http://superuser.com/questions/343955/converting-images-to-v...

Ooh, 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?

two steps: once to create the video; twice to mux the audio in. ffmpeg can do both, possibly in one step, but start here.

That sounds like a lot of fun to try. Shame it is just an OSX App.

Very cool. I had been thinking for a while I wanted something like this. You are <= $2.99 richer now ;)

Thanks.

Thanks for the promo code! Works great! ...will post a review for you.

Looks cool, I grabbed AKMYPYNNRPP9

Thanks!

Looks like a neat little app. Purchased :)

Very nice, thanks :)

I took XET4YHM63J7R

I grabbed JHMWL9XHAEF9 and thanks!

Thanks! I grabbed 9NNKANNR4MPL

Thanks! I took KEMNTNLHRFTF

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