Timelapser [Bugz000]

[Bugz000]

Timelapser: [Download][Github][Support Me]
for making timelapses from images!

After many frustrated hours searching for a simple peice of gui software to bind images together to a video... with the answer always falling to, "USE FFMPEG!"
i said screw this! and made my own

simply load the program, select folder with incrementally named image files, adjust FPS for desired estimated output and click start!
wait for the progress bar to reach the end, and check in scriptdir for "out.mp4", enjoy!

future plans include;
-different output formats/names
-image list sorting
-recursive seeking
-input VIDEO support
-frame resizing
-auto update platform <-- likely next update to include in all future releases
and more!

for now, at v0.1a, it's certainly functional, and was used to create this sample video;



both more videos and updates to come, along with more software stay tuned!

ofcourse bugs WILL happen, knowing my coding! so please report issues below and i will fix them ASAP!
or simply shout out what feature you would like added next, or how much you love/hate this program or maybe you don't care! in which case do nothing! you're doing great!

I hope you like this!
Have an awesome day guys!

About me

father to my son, Hunter, and with my beautiful wife and fantastic mother, Kaylin, living in the UK, avid hobbyist!

enjoying all aspects of life, photography, archery, motorcycling, aquariums, astronomy, and ofcourse, computers!

I have been coding AHK and been an active member of the AHK irc community for over 10 years but rarely actually shared my code! i never really considered that anyone else would want to use them until now, so here we are, the first in a string of releases!

Ofcourse, these scripts take time, with my longest project taking over 8 years and 2mb of hand-written code! this particular project took me aprx 7-8 hours of casual coding, could probably be crushed into 2-3 hours! i just do this for fun, mainly because i hate charging people money for my work as we all have different financial means, so i always prefer to charge people however much it is worth to them, maybe it's $10, maybe it's $0! it doesn't matter! so long as this software isn't put out of your reach simply due to money, like other more greedy developers! for this reason, none of my assistance or software costs money, and it never will! it's all free, with no adverts other than a single convenient, unobtrusive "support me" link.

Any money we receive will go straight towards bettering my sons life in any way we can![Paypal]


“Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”

[Helgef]

Hello Bugz000, the link is dead

Cheers.

[Bugz000]

Hello Bugz000, the link is dead

Cheers.

i do apologise! i was in the process of learning how2 github, it's finally in a form i can tolerate (for now) :p
some links are still funky but i'm working it out!
both links you should be able to get a copy of the script no problem
Enjoy!

[Helgef]

Well done .

For future considerations:
It is a little annoying that the gui has no icon on the taskbar and no option to bring it to the foreground from the tray menu, and you can't alt-tab to it either. I also miss some indication from the gui when the operation is completed.

Thanks for sharing, cheers.

Spoiler

If I click Select> and dismiss the dialog, I get an error,

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Timelapser.ahk
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Error: 0x800A004C -
Source: (null)
Description: (null)
HelpFile: (null)
HelpContext: 0

Specifically: GetFolder

Line#
137: }
139: {
141: UDC("Parsing directory")
142: Images := {}
143: i := 0
144: filelist := ""
145: lastpost := A_tickcount
---> 146: Filecount := ComObjCreate("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFolder(path).Files.Count
147: Loop,Files,%Path%\*.*
148: if (A_LoopFileExt = "Jpg") || (A_LoopFileExt = "jpeg") || (A_LoopFileExt = "png") || (A_LoopFileExt = "bmp")
149: {
150: i += 1
151: images[i, "fullpath"]:=A_LoopFileFullPath
152: images[i, "fileName"]:=A_LoopFileName
153: images[i, "ext"]:=A_LoopFileext

Continue running the script?
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Yes No
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[Bugz000]

Well done .

For future considerations:
It is a little annoying that the gui has no icon on the taskbar and no option to bring it to the foreground from the tray menu, and you can't alt-tab to it either. I also miss some indication from the gui when the operation is completed.

Thanks for sharing, cheers.

Spoiler

If I click Select> and dismiss the dialog, I get an error,

---------------------------
Timelapser.ahk
---------------------------
Error: 0x800A004C -
Source: (null)
Description: (null)
HelpFile: (null)
HelpContext: 0

Specifically: GetFolder

Line#
137: }
139: {
141: UDC("Parsing directory")
142: Images := {}
143: i := 0
144: filelist := ""
145: lastpost := A_tickcount
---> 146: Filecount := ComObjCreate("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFolder(path).Files.Count
147: Loop,Files,%Path%\*.*
148: if (A_LoopFileExt = "Jpg") || (A_LoopFileExt = "jpeg") || (A_LoopFileExt = "png") || (A_LoopFileExt = "bmp")
149: {
150: i += 1
151: images[i, "fullpath"]:=A_LoopFileFullPath
152: images[i, "fileName"]:=A_LoopFileName
153: images[i, "ext"]:=A_LoopFileext

Continue running the script?
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Yes No
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that catching the PID of the ffmpeg instance is difficult, i must assume someone already has ffmpeg running else i might catch the wrong process! i'm still searching for a solution regarding that issue,

as for cancelling out the folder select prompt, it should not go to processing due to line 119

Code: Select all

if !(path)
	return

so how you're getting that error is a bit of a mystery!
can you ensure those lines are present in your script copy?
as usual this is beta release, i plan to add plenty to this and fix the niggles along with various other releases

[Chunjee]

Ah this is brilliant. Utilizing FFMPEG I know it will output awesome results.


Thank you!