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More Webcam fun

December 19th, 2005 · by map · 8 Comments

The Webcam software I use lets me archive my captured images as a .mov time-lapse movie. Which is pretty cool. I hadn’t taken advantage of the feature…before today. Now, when you click on the nichecam link over there on the right, that page has a link to the movie footage from the previous day. WARNING: Unless you like watching birds and squirrels eating at feeders, you may opt to find another way to spend a couple minutes. Otherwise, enjoy!

Nota bene: I’m trying to come up with a way to automate the compression of these movie files. The upshot is, if you happen to look at the movie link between 7 and 7:30 p.m. CST, the .mov is going to take a looong time to load, as it’s a ~50MB file. The more you know…

EDIT: Turns out iMovie HD isn’t AppleScriptable. Great. Dunno what this portends for the future of the time-lapse movie, since I’ll have to resample the original timelapse movie every evening to get it ready for the Web. Surely there’s some way around this.

Tags: Computer · Software