[palmberg]

OK, here's the situation....

I use EvoCam with my iSight to capture images which are then turned into .mov time-lapse movies as an archiving method.

I'd like to keep the size of the captured images at their present quality, but that results in a time-lapse movie that's about 49MB, which is too big for sharing via my Web site.

This is all happening on my server, which is a Mini running Tiger. I want to find an automated way to compress the .mov file down to the same quality I'd get if I exported it as a "Web" movie in iMovie HD. Alas, iMovie HD isn't AppleScriptable, so far as I can tell.

Does anyone know of a way to do this without manually importing the movie into iMovie and then exporting "sharing" it?

Thanks very much.

[ism]

Quicktime Pro might be the way to go. That is applescriptable

[palmberg]

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, it turns out ffmpeg was the way to go. The script I ended up using goes a little something like this:


ffmpeg -i /input/file.mov -r 11.99 -s 240x180 -y /output/file rm -f /input/file.mov

It works really slick. Creates a 240x180, 11.99 fps .mov file and then deletes the original file from the source directory so that EvoCam cam create it again the next day. Then the process starts all over.