Script to make a movie from some 480x640 pixel JPGs, and imprint the images with their creation date (OSX only).

movietize.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Image sequence counter. Makes the ffmpeg command simpler.
imgNr=0

# Clear any previously generated intermediate files.
rm -rf dated rotated
mkdir dated
mkdir rotated

# Expecting images named IMG_*.JPG.
for file in IMG_*; do 
  echo $file
  (( imgNr++ ))

  # Get file creation date (some OSX magic).
  dateStr=`/usr/bin/mdls -r -name kMDItemFSCreationDate $file | sed 's/ .*//'`
  imgDate=`date -j -f '%Y-%m-%d' $dateStr +'%b %d %Y'`

  # Rotate image if necessary.
  if [[ `identify $file | grep 640x480` ]]; then
    convert -rotate 90 $file rotated/$file
    file=rotated/$file
  fi

  # Imprint the date.
  convert $file \
    -pointsize 30 \
    -font '/Library/Fonts/KozMinPro-Regular.otf' \
    -stroke '#1B1BB3' \
    -fill '#1B1BB3' \
    -gravity NorthEast \
    -annotate +15+15 "$imgDate" dated/`printf "%05d" $imgNr`.jpeg
done

# Video time! (-framerate is the input framerate, -r is the output framerate)
rate=10
ffmpeg -framerate $rate -f image2 -i dated/%05d.jpeg -r $rate -vcodec libx264 out.mp4