The most efficient way to see if it will take the format you have is just to try it and see if it works. %03d.įfmpeg will accept various kinds of image files running ffmpeg -formats will supposedly list them, but the list is really geared towards video formats, so a lot of the image formats it will take are grouped under "image2". If you have filenames padded with zeros to keep the filename length constant, for example, you can use the same C formatting strings to indicate that e.g. The wildcards are C formatting strings, so you can specify the filename pattern in any form C can spit out (useful since computer output is often the basis for the images). This is not supported for some output formats, as discussed below. r fps indicates how many frames per second in the final movie. The image type is inferred from the filename extension. If you're sewing together stills into a movie, the -f flag should always be image2. Since we have a series of images the correct input format is "image2", not "gif" (which apparently means an animated gif file, at least to my best guess). The flags are as follows: -f format indicates the input format. The following command will make an mpeg4 movie out of gif files (the order of the flags is important):įfmpeg -f image2 -r 10 -i. How do I make a movie from a set of image files?īecause this function isn't really the primary purpose of the software, it's not well documented at the website. You can also download the latest source code there or a version snapshot through subversion they have not yet made a formal release but the movie-from-images bit is fairly stable.
For a full description of ffmpeg's capabilities see the project website. Its flexibility and the number of formats it can handle, as well as its speed, make it (in my opinion) a better choice than mpeg_encode, which is in any case no longer supported by Berkeley on any site that I can find. Although not its primary purpose, it includes the capability to quickly sew togteher a sequence of images into a movie, a common task in scientific applications. How to make scientific movies with ffmpeg How to make scientific movies with ffmpeg What is ffmpeg?įfmpeg was designed as a sort of universal converter for various forms of media.
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