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Time lapse with Shutter

Asked by William

First: I would like to take time-lapse shots of a shipping channel, to capture the ships passing through it. I can do this with Scrot but I hear a lot of talk about shutter.

Second: Can shutter be limited to the number of shots. That is to say I would like to take 120 shots, 60 seconds apart.

Thank you.

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Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper) said : 		#1

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> First: I would like to take time-lapse shots of a shipping channel, to capture the ships passing through it. I can do this with Scrot but I hear a lot of talk about shutter.
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I don't know if I understand you correctly...
You could start Shutter, configure a delay in preferences and quit
Shutter. When starting Shutter via terminal it uses the last saved
configuration. To capture the full screen, you can start shutter via the
following command:
shutter --full

(--window, --section, --selection are interactive modes and doesn't make
sense when used in a script)

> Second: Can shutter be limited to the number of shots. That is to say I would like to take 120 shots, 60 seconds apart.

No, you cannot do this with Shutter, but you could write a bash script with a simple iteration, launch Shutter with the command above and quit the iteration after 60 loops.

In general we should think about making the preferences of Shutter
accessible via command line to make it easier to use in bash scripts.

Regards
Mario

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