High quality video with a DSLR is nice, and I find that when on an outing or at an event, it’s easy to take clips here and there to capture and document the memory. I usually switch between video clips and photos, but afterwards I don’t really like sorting through all the photos that much because I snap too many.

Videos on the other hand, I find that, if I don’t delete it, then they can be combined together in chronological order and be good enough to share with friends and family.

To save time, I created a command line script which will grab all clips from a folder and combine them into one video …

I like to use Boogie Board Sync to take notes, then sync them to my Laptop using dropbox. Unfortunately, the Sync creates a one page PDF for each saved screen. Therefore, having one folder per sorted topic, I open up the folder in terminal and run the following simple script which I keep in my PATH.

If you have ImageMagick installed, you can use:

import filename.png

to then select an image window via a mouse. Or, the pure command line method of:

import filename.png -window root

to take a snapshot of the whole screen.