Make Movie

This repository contains a Python script that will take all images in a directory and make a time-lapse movie. EXIF data is utilized to determine the date the picture was taken and that date is printed on each of the images in the movie.

The maximum width and height, frame rate, temporary image directory, and output filename are all configurable from the command line. If a music file is specified for background audio then the track length will be used to determine the required frame rate to fill the song.

Dependencies

Development and usage should occur in a virtual environment.

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cat install.txt | xargs sudo apt install

Music

To combine multiple music files into a single file a solution was presented at https://askubuntu.com/questions/20507/concatenating-several-mp3-files-into-one-mp3. That is why the mp3wrap package is listed in the apt dependencies in install.txt.

mp3wrap output.mp3 input-1.mp3 input-2.mp3 input-3.mp3

If mp3wrap does not work you can try Audacity. Some instructions that worked for me are at https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/merge-multiple-audio-files-to-one-using-audacity.html.