[FFmpeg-user] Create a video from a large number of time-lapse photos?

[John Dexter]

Thanks Carl, that sounds just about perfect.

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, 15:45 Carl Eugen Hoyos, <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Am 09.10.2019 um 15:15 schrieb John Dexter <jdxsolutions at gmail.com>:
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> > I am creating time-lapse photosets consisting of thousands of images. I
> > would like a simple way to convert these into a video file - specifying a
> > few parameters only like fps - but am finding basic tools (like iMovie)
> are
> > really struggling with the number of files and just hang.
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> > Can someone tell me if this is something ffmpeg would be suitable for,
> and
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> Yes.
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> > if so give any example commands and/or general advice?
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> $ ffmpeg -framerate 15 -i image%8d -s qcif out.mov
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> > For instance, photos
> > tend to be quite high resolution and working naively, I end up trying to
> > create a 4k movie, so perhaps I should use another tool to batch-resize
> > images first, or maybe ffmpeg can even do that on the fly.
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> Yes.
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> See also: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#image2-1
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> Carl Eugen
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