{"id":44,"date":"2012-09-28T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-09-28T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:30:00","slug":"encode-image-sequence-to-mpeg4-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Encode image sequence to MPEG4 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today something very simple: use ffmpeg to encode an image sequence as a MPEG4 video:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">ffmpeg -f image2 -i filename-%04d.png -vcodec mpeg4 -b 6000k output.mp4<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I often use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/\">blender<\/a> or custom software to render out a bunch of images. Blender usually names output files <span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">filename-0000.png<\/span>, where 0000 is the frame number. &nbsp;So ffmpeg can generate those filenames with the usual printf style format. You can of course tweak ffmpeg&#8217;s output via a myriad of options. But this here will simply generate a 25fps mpeg4 file, which is easily embedded for example into your Keynote presentation. On OS X you can get ffmpeg for example via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macports.org\/\">MacPorts<\/a>: <span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">sudo port install ffmpeg<\/span>, and Linux distros usually have a package for ffmpeg as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today something very simple: use ffmpeg to encode an image sequence as a MPEG4 video: ffmpeg -f image2 -i filename-%04d.png -vcodec mpeg4 -b 6000k output.mp4 I often use blender or custom software to render out a bunch of images. Blender usually names output files filename-0000.png, where 0000 is the frame number. &nbsp;So ffmpeg can generate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=44\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Encode image sequence to MPEG4 video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}