Daily Selfy

https://ironmanrust-daily-selfy.netlify.app

Summary

Capture a picture a day for use in time-lapse animations.

Background

Have you ever wanted to make a long-duration selfie time-lapse animation, but were turned off by overly-complicated Android and iOS apps? I was, so I made this.

Details:

• Nothing to install - it's just a fully-responsive HTML5 webpage. However, if you'd prefer offline support, it can be installed and used as a progressive web application.
• No cloud storage to deal with - save your images directly to your device.
• Works equally well with laptops (default orientation) and phones/tablets (standard or selfie orientation).
• When taking selfies, optionally overlay a face-shaped frame to assist with aligning your image and cut down on required post-processing work.

Screenshot

Post-Processing

To make a video out of the selfie images, use the following shell script:

ffmpeg -framerate 1 -pattern_type glob -i "*.png" video.mp4

Explanation:

• ffmpeg - https://www.ffmpeg.org
• -framerate 1 - Set the framerate to 1 fps; adjust as desired.
• -pattern_type glob - Use glob pattern matching for input files.
• -i "*.png" - Sequentially match all .png files in the current directory as input.
• video.mp4 - Set the output file name.

FFmpeg has many additional options to adjust settings such as video resolution and codec used, but this should provide a sane, basic output.