Image to Video converter?

[kenmo]

Hey folks,

Anyone know of a good / simple / free program which can convert a sequences of images (PNG specifically) to a single video file?

I know there are hundreds of video converters out there, but sometimes it's easier to just ask for suggestions than to sort through Google results...

PS. I don't care about fancy codecs - in fact I'd prefer an uncompressed AVI or similar, since these spliced clips will later be edited into a larger video. Don't care about audio either. Also I'm on Windows.

[IdeasVacuum]

I think it will be hard to find one that does the job easily (collect all images from folder), especially png, since bmp format is 'native' to avi.

It might be that Seymour found or wrote a solution:
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 13&t=47135

If you only have a small number of images, then the free version of BB FlashBack will probably do:
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/bbflashback ... nload.aspx

[netmaestro]

Do you know of Super from ErightSoft? With all it can do it wouldn't surprise me at all if it could manage this. Also Nero (I use 7, latest service pack) has a movie creation tool that will take images and make a movie from them. Super is free and very powerful. ErightSoft only makes the GUI, all the tools it employs are the latest versions of proven free converters. Amazing program for everything I've used it for.

[Ramihyn_]

JPGAvi, JPGVideo - http://www.ndrw.co.uk/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

[IdeasVacuum]

Hey netmaestro, that does sound super.........

The actual download link is awkward to find, it's on this page:http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.htmlTake care not to click on a Google add instead. The super link is near the bottom of the page.

[Danilo]

It is also possible with Windows Live Movie Maker (included in Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials).
Maybe you have it already installed. But it saves as Windows Media Movie (WMV).

Load all Images (see FAQ for supported formats, .PNG is supported), go to Edit Tab.
Select all images (CTRL+A) and change the "Duration" in the edit tab (minimum is 0,03 seconds, 33 FPS).
Go back to tab "Home" and Save movie.

[c4s]

Do you know of Super from ErightSoft? With all it can do it wouldn't surprise me at all if it could manage this.

Hey netmaestro, that does sound super.........

No! Please don't use "SUPER"!
I used it myself some years ago but since 1) Downloading got extremely difficult, 2) Tries to install adware, 3) Always tries to "phone home", 4) GUI is horrible, 5) Results weren't satisfying for me (even buggy) etc. I looked for an alternative. XMedia Recode is pretty good: http://www.xmedia-recode.de/download.html

Anyone know of a good / simple / free program which can convert a sequences of images (PNG specifically) to a single video file?

I can recommend VirtualDub as Ramihyn_ said. It has a special function for this purpose.

[kenmo]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

I forgot all about VirtualDub - I've used it in the past, thought it was easy and useful, in fact I probably have the installer downloaded on my external HD!

As a "plan B" I might try Super, although c4s has some negative points... and the webpage is a novel

EDIT: 30 minutes and I've already done what I wanted to do, with VirtualDub.

The only catches were: you cannot pick arbitrary image files, they have to be sequentially named (http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=34) and they all have to be the same dimensions (I wrote a 50-line PB program to scale them all).

Thanks

[Ramihyn_]

As a "plan B" I might try Super, although c4s has some negative points... and the webpage is a novel

I agree with c4s about Super, thats why i didnt even mention it.

EDIT: 30 minutes and I've already done what I wanted to do, with VirtualDub.

The only catches were: you cannot pick arbitrary image files, they have to be sequentially named (http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=34) and they all have to be the same dimensions (I wrote a 50-line PB program to scale them all).

You could have used the filter "Cropping" - filters are very powerful and it pays off to check them out

http://virtualdub.org/docs_processing.html

[kenmo]

There is probably some way to handle the different dimensions in VirtualDub.

But usually, don't you apply a filter to a single video segment? The problem is VDub loads the images as one whole segment
- pops up an error if they do not match -
so I don't know if you can process individual frames separately.

Maybe.

It was quicker to write a PB scaling/letterboxing program than to learn VDub properly