Timelapse Movie of Your Desktop While You’re Working

i want to start doing timelapses of coding while I’m working, so here goes:

First off set up a terminal command to take a screenshot every 25 seconds:

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i=1;while [ 1 ];do screencapture -t jpg -x ~/Desktop/TrickyWays/$i.jpg; let i++;sleep 25; done

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Next stitch together the screens with ffmpeg:

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ffmpeg -framerate 1 -pattern_type glob -i '~/Desktop/screens/*.jpg' -c:v libx264 out.mp4

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thats all!

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