Help:Ffmpeg

Software homepage

http://www.ffmpeg.org/

Software availability

ask

Other related software

vlc

command to type to run

(on clusters) /share/apps/local/bin/ffmpeg (and others)

View online documentation

http://www.ffmpeg.org/documentation.html

Creating movies from images

If you have a series of images you want to convert to a movie

1. open a terminal inside the folder where the pictures are placed.
2. run the command

 /share/apps/local/bin/ffmpeg -i nameofjpeg%03d.jpg  nameofmovie.mp4                                                             

• note that the italicized filename is in printf format, so %03d states that there will be 3 zero padded numerical digits after the name.
• you can add other options like "-b 1800" in front of the movie name to increase the stream quality to 1800.
• you can also force the frame rate by adding "-r 30" for a frame rate of 30 frames/s
• one option that works especially well is adding "-sameq" to keep the video quality the same as the picture quality