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I'm taking a 2000-frame (80 seconds) time-lapse movie today of the PNLTC
layout at the Oregon Convention Center.
What's a good way to take a whole bunch of frames and string them together
into an MPEG movie?
The source images, once I get them off my camera, will be low-res 1536x1024
JPEGs, each about 500 KB, which I'd like to crop down to 1536x1152 (16:9
widescreen aspect ratio) and then downsample to 768x576 before conversion to
MPEG.
I know how to batch crop and downsample using standard Unix tools like the
PNM utilities, but I don't yet know how to make an MPEG. I've got an OS X
laptop and a RedHat Linux server at my disposal. Maybe there's an easy way
using iMovie.
I believe in the "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"
philosophy, so I do want to learn how to do this myself, but I'm crunched
for time this weekend and it'd be kind of fun to share this right away. If
I uploaded all the raw JPEG images (these will total about 1 GB), is there
someone out there with JPEG-to-MPEG conversion experience who would be
interested in doing the conversion?
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| (...) i'll probably swing by and take a look tomorrow, depending on how far away the display is from the beer :) (...) i'd suggest mjpeg: (URL) a faq entry on how to do what you want: https://sourceforge....id=5776#s4 (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.animation)
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| Try QuickMovie 1.5. It's OS X Ready, and I believe does everything you're asking. It's shareware and quite easy to use. I'm pretty sure it can do 1000 frames at a time, and it might be able to do all 2000 in one go. Otherwise, just make two movies (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.animation)
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| (...) I can't speak about iMovie, but iPhoto can do what you are asking. Here are the steps: 1) import all the pictures 2) select all the pictures 3) File menu>Export-choose the Quicktime tab 4) press 'export' I just tested it out with a bunch of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.animation)
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| Hello Todd, (...) Just to add to the possibilities already suggested by others, QuickTime Pro can also do it: - Make sure the images all have the same name and are numbered in sequence - Open QuickTime Player - File -> Open Image Sequence (or (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.animation)
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| There is a free program called Videomach that most of us animators have found very useful for most of our conversion needs. Download it here- (URL) installed, click on the non-commercial use button.(LEGO says all movies must be non-commercial anyway (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.animation)
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