Use quartz composer for creating time lapse videos

Question

Hy there let's say I have 1000 pictures which were taken with a delay of 1 second.

1. Is it possible to create a video from these pictures using quartz composer?

2. In a second step I would like to add labels to the video stream depending on the current time of the given picture so that you can see how time flies by while watching the video.

3. In a third step I think it would be very cool to have something like an animated analogue clock that displays the time instead of a label.

   clock http://www.thepropheticartist.com/images/animated_clock.gif

4. There is no fourth step :-)

Answer 1

1. No, there's currently no way to combine individual pictures into a QuickTime movie using Quartz Composer. Apple does provide example code for writing individual images to disk, so currently at best you could load an image, process it, and write an image to disk.

2. Use the System Time, Date Formatter, Image With String, and Billboard patches.

3. In /Developer/Library/Quartz Composer/Examples/Patches/, there's Clock.qtz, which renders an analog clock.

4. No comment.