Help creating Shell/Applescript to automate creation of Image Sequences

Hi Everyone,
I am currently getting into shell scripting (what fun it is!) and have created a couple of scripts that:-
a) Take a picture with the iSight camera every minute and name them YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.jpg
b) Once every few hours move all images into folder YYYY-MM-DD so that all images are in one place.
What I want to do now is automate the process of creating the Image Sequence timelapse mov from QuickTime Pro.
Is this possible? Even if you just point me in the right direction I would be very grateful! I've been going around in circles and still haven't found out if I can do this.
Thanks again,
James AKA MrBriz

Eric wrote:
1) He said libreoffice is the new name for openoffice, which isn't true.
2) Openoffice may be owned by Oracle, but it's still open source (which is why so many other office suites are based on the openoffice code, e.g., NeoOffice and LibreOffice, as well as others.)
If you're going to say "libreoffice, formally openoffice" you have to back that up with some truth.
Thanks Eric.
My mistake. The last time I checked the opensource world was awash with statements to the effect that OO was dead. I then discovered that LibreOffice was picking up where OO left off.
I now see that OO is still going. So I guess people were making a fuss about nothing when the Oracle / Sun thing happened.
Either way, Apple Pages lacks the Navigation feature found in OO/LO, and Word. And that is what I'd like to find a way to work around.
I had to drop word on this kind of document because its way of handling numbered lists within paragraph styles was driving me nuts, as it had done for the person I was assisting, and has done for many other people I see have posted issues about that as far back as 2003 or earlier. So I switched my friends document over to Pages, as that's installed by default on her MBP. But she really wanted the document map functionality that was in Word. OO/LO was my next option, and the one I am running with for now.

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