"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>>>> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > > > that I'd like to string together to form an animation, > > > picture-book style. > > > > You can try using convert (part of the imagemagick package), to > > make mpegs, as in > > > > convert *.png movie.mpeg > > Thanks Mike. > > That almost works. First I had to hunt down mpeg2encode because it's > used by convert and not included in any Debian package (as far as I > could tell). After I did that I tried the command > > convert *.png movie.mpg > > and it's doing something really funky, it's using every 12th png file > in the movie, eg., I have 100 frames and it starts with frame 1 then > frame 13, frame 25, frame 37, etc. > > Anyway, I might have to move over to the SGI and use their tools. Of > course they don't work with PNG files... > > If anyone else has other Linux solutions please pipe in!
Well, I figured out the "problem" with convert. Unless you set the quality at 99 or better it tells mpeg_encode to skip every twelfth frame. I suppose this is because of an assumption that the stills are from a video capture? Anyway, I tweaked the source so any quality above 75 uses all the frames and now convert works fine. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! Gary
