I have 69 folders of jpegs I want to turn into 69 quicktime timelapse movies. Rather than doing this one-at-a-time in Quicktime 7 Pro (Open Image Sequence, select first frame, choose 30 fps as the frame rate, wait for frames to assemble, save result while selecting "as reference movie", change the name of the resulting Quicktime from "Untitled.mov" to the corresponding jpeg folder name, repeat) — is there an easy way to automate this?
Automating Quicktime Image Sequence creation in Mountain Lion
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Best Answer
Automator with some AppleScript will do this nicely. The frames need to be named consistently —
blah1.jpg blah2.jpg blah3.jpg … blah50.jpg
etc. Each sequence you want to be a movie should be in its own folder.Add the Run AppleScript action, with the following code:
Run it, and you'll get a
.mov
in each folder. Let me know if you have any questions.The AppleScript code is adapted from this post at the Macworld Hints forum.