Re: MacBook Pro iSight Scripting
Re: MacBook Pro iSight Scripting
- Subject: Re: MacBook Pro iSight Scripting
- From: Steve Hayman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:35:36 -0400
Just idle curiosity - has anyone got a sneaky method of using an
AppleScript (or shell script) to take a photo using the MacBook
Pro's built in camera? Looks like PhotoBooth isn't scriptable. :-(
Here is a useful little command line iSight picture taker called
"isightcapture":
http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html
Of course I immediately decided to use this to make a movie of me at
work. Type this in Terminal:
for i in `jot 100`; do
isightcapture $i.jpg
done
and it takes a series of iSight snapshots (one every ten seconds or
so), storing them in 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg ... 100.jpg. (It'd probably
be faster if it was a universal binary, but on my macbook, one every
ten seconds or so is as fast as it seems to go under Rosetta.)
Then in Quicktime Player you can use File > Open Image Sequence; open
the first one 1.jpg and it loads all 100 into a quirky little flip-
book-style movie.
My apologies for the complete absence of Applescript in this message.
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