Find specify files between date AND hours.

[zinger123]

Hi.
I need to copy only all files from 130000 files between 6:00 till 17:00. How to do it in MacOs (my system) or Windows or Linux ?
Need to create TimeLapse only with working hours.
And what is best program to create Time-lapse from MILION OF FILES? iMovie crashed all the time.

 

[Slartibart]

open a Terminal window and use:

find -type f -newermt "2011-12-22 00:00:00" \! -newermt "2011-12-24 13:23:00"

to get a list of files for the given date and time range. What format have the files? What format do you like to generate?

EDIT: assuming you have PNGs you can use e.g. the convert command from ImageMagick in the terminal:

convert 'image-%d.png[0-20]' output.gif

 

[zinger123]

.jpg. List for what? I need only files. Any Filemanager? FTP client?

 

[Slartibart]

.jpg. List for what? I need only files. Any Filemanager? FTP client?

well, so edit the above terminal/shell command for jpeg and pipe the output directly into animate. Processing parameters and formats for animate are available here.

or you can use ffmpeg to create an mp4 with an adjustable framerate, e.g. a normal speed video with one image per frame at 30 FPS:

ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i '*.jpg' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p output-movie.mp4


EDIT: I just realized: these jpegs are located on a ftp server? For something like this a remote shell might be a much better solution - assuming SSH access and required progs are available.

EDIT II: you can use the list from the find command to copy or do whatever to the files included in this list.

 

[zinger123]

Hi. First I want to thank you for replay
1. It's local files (download (PUSH) from ftp serwer to my local Qnap)
2. I use iMovie to TimeLapse. (enough for me)
3. I just want to separate these files to another folder.
Regards