Creating movie from still images

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hi Folks,

is there a command (or series of commands) in unix that can generate a movie/animation from a series of still images (.gif, .jpg, .tif)? I need to automate the generation of a movie with scripts. It will just be a sequence of still images.

thanks,

judy

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Hi Judy,

I use ImageMagick's animate to preview the animation
and mplayer/mencoder (http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html)
to encode the final movie (with mpeg4 or some other codec).

The command line can be something like this
$ mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc \
  -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

but it may become more complicated depending on your needs
(like using music, specifying codec options, etc.).

Francesco

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I actually managed to download all the TIFF images, and was thinking about making some animations from them. QuickTime Pro does it pretty easily, even if it's not command-line based. If you find something that will work for you, though, great!

-G

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From: judy lai <[email protected]>
Date: February 4, 2005 12:51:54 PM PST

hi Folks,

is there a command (or series of commands) in unix that can generate a movie/animation from a series of still images (.gif, .jpg, .tif)? I need to automate the generation of a movie with scripts. It will just be a sequence of still images.

thanks,

judy

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is there a command (or series of commands) in unix that can generate a
movie/animation from a series of still images (.gif, .jpg, .tif)?
I need to automate the generation of a movie with scripts. It will just
be a sequence of still images.

Hi Judy,

Gifsicle will make an animated gif for you:

I've used MakeAVI for years. This will make you a nice AVI file using a
variety of codecs, but it's a Windows program:
http://makeavi.sourceforge.net/

These are quick & dirty, but easy. The animated gif is nice because
*everyone* has something to play those back, but you have no control over
the playback process. An mpeg or something would be better because of the
better playback control. For this you need mencoder or something Jack
uses and I forgot the name. I never did figure out how to use mencoder,
but I'd like to. I think Jack and Francesco have some experience with
this stuff...

- Rob Guglielmetti

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The command line can be something like this
$ mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc \
  -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

Sheesh, I send off an email lamenting my inability to get mencoder to
work, and then this shows up in my inbox. Thanks Fransesco, I'll have
another go at things! Baciamo le mani!

- Rob Guglielmetti

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ffmpeg.sourgeforge.net

I think that this may be under the hood of mencoder, not sure though.

-Jack

Rob Guglielmetti wrote:

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The command line can be something like this
$ mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4
   
Sheesh, I send off an email lamenting my inability to get mencoder to
work, and then this shows up in my inbox. Thanks Fransesco, I'll have
another go at things! Baciamo le mani!

- Rob Guglielmetti
www.rumblestrip.org

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On 04/02/05, 20:51:54, judy lai <[email protected]> wrote regarding
[Radiance-general] Creating movie from still images:

is there a command (or series of commands) in unix that can generate a
movie/animation from a series of still images (.gif, .jpg, .tif)?
I need to automate the generation of a movie with scripts.

For simple sequences I use Imagemagik's convert to make an mng from
jpegs.

    convert -delay 8 pic_??.jpeg animation.mng

I view with the contrib mngview from the libmng distribution or view
with a capable web browser.

Refs:

http://www.libmng.com/