Still to Video app

maillion · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2024 5:37 am Post subject: Still to Video app

I did my first 'experiments' with 'video' back in the '70s with a 16 mm camera that had a single frame button on it. I used it to make a movie of a short, animated chess game in which all the pieces moved automatically, one in which a stone revolved about a vertical axis, and an 'elapsed time' one that showed clouds streaming across the sky. A couple of years ago, I wanted to have a bunch of my photos as a slide show on a web site. I tried it with a show made with PowerPoint, another with an 'animated' gif, and one with a javascript script. I used Gif Construction Set for this. A few months later, I wanted to send a CD to my Uncle with images of my grand daughter's birthday. I thought I could use the gif thing to include a slide show, but it occurred to me that I could also do a screensaver, so I began to look for a program to make one. I found it, but while looking, I found a program that would convert an 'animated' gif to an avi 'video' file. I played around with this for a while, at one point, creating an 'elapsed time' video, using my digital camera. I haven't done an awfull lot of this stuff, because the program I had would only work by first converting the jpeg images to gif then making an 'animated' gif from them, then converting the gif to an avi. Lots and lots of quality loss! I think there could be a lot of fun for me, at least to be able to make a png or at least a jpeg format video in this way. My camera won't take images fast enough to make normal videos, but it could make 'collapsed' and 'elapsed' time videos and cartoon style animations with decent ease, if I can find a program that will combine a series of still images and save them as a video file, like avi or mpeg. I'd further like to be able to do this with Linux. (I think there are M$ programs, but very expensive!) Anybody know of one for Linux? Cool

Germ · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2024 1:38 pm Post subject:

I think Cinelerra and/or ImageMagick will do what you want. I don't know for sure as I've never really been into it.

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maillion · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2024 2:59 pm Post subject:

Germ · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2024 4:00 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure what's up with that, but cinelerra will run on considerably less hardware than that. Also, what you are wanting to do won't be that intensive anyway. I do video conversions(transcoding) on a Athlon 1700+ w/768MB RAM with no problem. It uses 6-8 GB of HDD space during the encoding.

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nukes · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2024 6:39 pm Post subject:

Already posted this in the other thread - converting JPEG images (you could use imagemagik to use some other type) to mpeg video:

For creating videos from still images:
Use MJPEG tools. HOWTO:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.html?docid=3456&group_id=5776#ss4.1
Homepage:
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

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