using ffmpeg mac and imagemagick flicker

Yesterday, I set it up on an interval timer and pointed it right towards Rainbow Mountain, which faces the patio in the kitchen of the little condo unit we're renting out. Expecting some beautiful landscapes and weather, I brought my newly acquired X100T to take some nice photos. We're vacationing in Whistler, BC right now as 'endurance spectators' to my father-in-law's 3rd Ironman triathlon. While I looked for this ability out of curiosity, there are some great use cases for taking images from command line, like tracking your Mac if it's stolen or taking a photo upon invalid login.Making a time-lapse on the command line using FFmpeg and ImageMagick Sunday, July 26, 2015

The command above takes a photo every second until the process is killed. ImageSnap also has the functionality to take a photo every n seconds: The image will be saved to a snapshot.png file. You'll wait a brief second or two, your green camera indicator will light up, and will then quickly fade out. # Take image, let camera warm up 1 second To take a photo using the default video input device ( FaceTime HD Camera is the default in most newer Macs), simply execute this: You can compile from source if you like, obviously. I like using Homebrew to manage installs:

It turns outs out OS X doesn't provide that access a third party utility named ImageSnap is the best route to taking captures from command line. Since I work from home, I spend a lot of time on video calls, so when I started playing around with command line utilities like ImageMagick and ffmpeg, I instantly asked myself: how can I take a photo with the Mac's camera from within the terminal?

With all of my recent command line tutorials, I've really gotten excited about the shell's simplicity and realized the true power of using the underlying technology of pretty UIs.

Using ffmpeg mac and imagemagick flicker