Basic

This will record off the built-in iSight, and the old external (FireWire) iSight. I tried a few webcam URLs but no go. Since there’s no built-in help, judging only from the error message, I guess the URL it wants is for an image (still or streaming JPEG?). Most webcams I found seem to use Flash (ugh) or Java. It’d be nice if a future revision included a list of known good URLs.

The UI isn’t polished. The “preview” window is really a view of the last frame taken, not a live view of the camera as I’d expect when using a connected/built-in cam. It uses a slider for the playback FPS (fixed to multiples of 3 seconds, why?) but a type-in box for the capture rate. A nice touch is expressing the playback rate as a meaningful number. The suggested save-as file name is basic: untitled.mp4. It could be cleverer and use the camera name or the starting date and time of the capture. The UI gets the job done.

e•Bob about Webcam Time Lapse