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Creating Timelapse Video From Photos With FFMPEG

Man, there are a lot of outdated and incomplete tutorials about creating timelapse videos from JPG images and photos. Here's a quick start guide to get going in late 2019.

Software

I'm using ffmpeg version 4.2.1 on MacOS. It is free, well supported, and scales up to practically any number of input images or output video length.

There are a dozen paid timelapse software offerings out there, but I suspect they are just polished front-ends to ffmpeg. Small timelapse videos are possible in iMovie 10.1, but adding even a modest number of images bogs it down badly. The easiest approach is to create a rough lightly compressed video with ffmpeg and then edit the result in iMovie.

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