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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.

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.

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