Yeah, I can hardly wait for the first one to complete!
I had at least three launch daemons running Applescripts and a video formatter running to grab the .mov file, change it to MP4, change the name to match what the web page expected, clean out the secondary directory, etc., etc. Hopefully I won't need any of those, but I'll have to see if WC creates a 'standard' or unchanging name before uploading. I guess I could read The Manual, but they don't even make those on paper anymore!!
Actually reading The Manual is not difficult, although I had to do such searching to find where it actually resides! I moved a copy to the iMac for easier reading.
Found what I was hoping for, I think.
MOVIE$ will upload a 1 hour movie covering the previous hour on the first upload after the hour. The file uploaded by this tag is called ?WeatherCat1hrMovie.mp4'.
DAILY_MOVIE$ will upload the current daily movie on the first upload after the hour. The file uploaded by this tag is called 'WeatherCatDailyMovie.mp4'.
I think that answers the 'standard' name question.
I also think the following is great!
For images captured from a local file or URL, WeatherCat will use the image size as it finds it.
There have been some comments about the image sizes offered by a camera don't always match up with the choices in WC. The text above takes care of that question. It may work the same way in WC2, I never looked for that info and was happy with what I was given!
I doubt I will use the Daily movie as that will get to be a pretty huge file by the end of the day (or until the Sun sets). I will use the "inter-frame dissolve" just because we now can! Whether I continue will be determined by how much this increases the size of the 1hr movies.
Stu has already warned that it may be significant! It may also depend on how often the snapshots are captured.
Anyway, I'm off to edit my web cam page to handle the 1hr movies ASAP! Thanks, again for all the work that has been put into this new version!