[Gimp-user] Time Lapse via GIMP

[cfdevlin01 <forums gimpusers com>]

> ...snip...
> This mailing list format is not the best for giving information other
> than basic.
>
> I generally use linux, so this short 5 minute video demo is in a Win10
> virtual machine, not my favourite OS.
>
> https://youtu.be/9d5P1AXQSLU
>
> It uses the free commandline application Imagemagick which which you
> can get here:
>
> https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php  bottom of the page -
> direct download is
>
> https://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-7.0.7-1-Q16-x64-dll.exe
> about 25 MB
>
> The two main commands used are:
>
> magick convert filename.xcf %03d.jpg  which extracts the xcf layers as
> jpg's in numbered order 001.jpg ..002.jpg...
>
> You might already have a sequence of jpgs and that might not be
> necessary.
>
> ffmpeg -r 10 -f image2 -i "%03d.jpg" -vcodec libxvid filename.avi
> which converts the numbered sequence into a video that should be
> playable on computers or media players (xvid = divx)
>
> The alternative, is a GUI application, Avidemux, which can open a
> sequence of files and make a video, ask about it if you can not get
> the above to work.

Again, thanks for the input - really appreciated.
Chuck Devlin

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