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DeliQ

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[solved] images -> avi movie?

Hello archers,

Currently i'm following a 3d modelling course and for the last assignment we have to create an animation. We have to use the Maya 8.5 software package, which on linux does not have all the features like it has on the windows platform. One of these is rendering to an avi file immediately, i can only render each frame individually and save that to an image file (tiff, jpeg, png, etc.) My question is, do you know of software which allows me to make an avi movie out of these individual images?

Thanks in advance,

--Ronny

Last edited by DeliQ (2007-04-07 19:07:15)

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junglepeanut

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Re: [solved] images -> avi movie?

Many options.

I've used gifsicle, gimp, and imagemagik to make movies.

Google shows

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&clie … tnG=Search

skottish

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Re: [solved] images -> avi movie?

Using MPlayer:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o out.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800

This will turn all jpg's in the current directory into a WMP compatible AVI file at 25 frames per second. The quality will be low because the bitrate is only at 800KBs. You can play with that to get file size vs. quality at a good level.

You can do the same thing with FFMPEG, but the file names have to be sequential (frame_000001, frame_000002, frame_000003...):

ffmpeg -i frame_%06d.jpg -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -b 800K -coder 1 -r 25 out.avi

DeliQ

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Re: [solved] images -> avi movie?

Thanks scottish, i didn't know ffmpeg was capable doing that!;)

--Ronny

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skottish

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Re: [solved] images -> avi movie?

Gladly. FFMPEG is one of my favorite toys, so I love to help.

You can also use FFMPEG or Mencoder in combination with GPAC (in AUR) and x264 (use the AUR version) to encode Quicktime compatible mp4 movies. At the moment it's the closest thing you're going to get to cross platform encoding that will work 'out of the box' on most machines out there.