Tool to glue dozen of PNG into video

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I have made nearly 20 PNG screen captures. I wish to glue them into video. Could you recommend a tool?

Better if that would be smooth change from one picture to another, like tween motion in Flash.

Using actual flash is not an option. Because tool must be free and run on linux.

use after effects or any video editing package – morishuz May 03 '13 at 11:40 — morishuz, May 03 '13 at 11:40

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '10 at 18:31

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This worked for me:

Install ffmpeg.
Create your pngs with a continuous number in the file name, e.g. img0001.png, img0002.png, …, …img5467.png.
Then run ffmpeg -qscale 5 -r 20 -b 9600 -i img%04d.png movie.mp4

Thanks to: http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2008/04/28/create-a-movie-file-from-single-image-files-png-jpegs/

answered Apr 28 '10 at 18:31

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Guys, the reported link helps understanding the meaning of the flags. In the specific, the video resulting out of the command that Will posted here might be a bit too slow. Try with "-r 25" instead. – Detro Apr 25 '11 at 16:03

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:16

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Use mplayer's mencoder:

for i in *.png; do for j in `seq 1 20`; do echo $i; done; done > frames.txt
mencoder mf://@frames.txt -mf fps=5:type=png \
  -audiofile audio.mp3 -oac copy \
  -of lavf -ovc lavc \
  -lavcopts vcodec=flv:mbd=2:v4mv:mv0:trell:cbp:last_pred=3:vbitrate=200 \
  -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames \
  -o video.flv

answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:16

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Thank you very much. i_certify... is this a joke? – temoto Mar 06 '09 at 11:39
No, it isn't. It was required when I used it - without it I got an error from mencoder requesting adding it. – Tometzky Mar 06 '09 at 11:54
Thanks, i tried it with wierd option i got error, w/o option it produced empty flv. :( – temoto Mar 06 '09 at 18:13

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:10

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png2mng.pl As you can guess from extension, it's a Perl script.

answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:10

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It's very interesting, it really produced mng, but now i don't know how to show it. :) Konqueror does not. – temoto Mar 06 '09 at 16:57
Hmm ideed interesting, Konqueror from KDE3 shows it. Konqueror from KDE4 does not. It's some bug in Qt4. – vartec Mar 06 '09 at 17:18
Thanks, vartec, i'll try one from KDE3. – temoto Mar 06 '09 at 18:05

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Although, the question is already answered long time ago, for future reference, it has been asked again in the past and contains a beautiful answer that helped me as well:

How can I script the creation of a movie from a set of images?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Sep 15 '11 at 19:53

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:17

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You could probably using ffmpeg - I've used its "image2" codec to turn an mpeg into a series of JPEG frames, pretty sure the reverse is possible. If it can't read PNG you can use ImageMagick to convert your PNGs to JPEG first.

answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:17

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:20

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Video Mach (http://www.gold-software.com/download8598.html) seems to be a good option for you. Although for winows, its a shareware.

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answered Mar 06 '09 at 11:20

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Tool to glue dozen of PNG into video

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