Create Video from JPEGs

[chewearn]

The commands are supposed to be entered directly into terminal. But if you want to put into a script, add this as the first line:

#!/bin/bash

So it should look like this:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir out
for a in $( ls in ); do
convert "in/$a" -resize 800x600 -background black -gravity center -extent 800x600 "out/$a"
done

[Cavsfan]

That script worked fantastic and I did just enter it in the terminal.
I am learning. But the AVI still came out only 3 seconds long with FPS=1
This is the command I entered inside the out directory:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=1 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

It is 3 seconds long and displays the first 3 pictures in the folder.

Thanks for all of your help!

[Cavsfan]

Something is wrong with pic 2 and 3 and that must be why it only displays 3 pictures
no matter what the FPS is set to. I look at the properties > image and instead of displaying
800 x 600 like the rest it just says loading...

Trying to figure that out...

[Cavsfan]

I deleted the contents of out and ran the script again, but the exact same results occurred.
Picture 2 and 3 indicate loading... on the properties instead of 800 x 600.
All of the rest of them show the correct resolution 800 x 600.

I cannot figure this out! It is messed up after the script converts the files, but I don't know why.

[amoeba801]

Hi,

I can't help you with the mencoder problem, but note that making slides using mencoder is limited as it doesn't provide transitions from slide to slide, etc. You might want to consider some alternatives (both of which I successfully use):

From the command line, I use dvd-slideshow. The author gives a complete guide to creating a standalone DVD here.

Alternatively, imagination is a GUI based program. It is still in development, but works for my simple needs.

[chewearn]

I deleted the contents of out and ran the script again, but the exact same results occurred.
Picture 2 and 3 indicate loading... on the properties instead of 800 x 600.
All of the rest of them show the correct resolution 800 x 600.

I cannot figure this out! It is messed up after the script converts the files, but I don't know why.

Since it's two pictures only, perhaps you could manually convert these two, e.g. using GIMP.

[Cavsfan]

Since it's two pictures only, perhaps you could manually convert these two, e.g. using GIMP.

I have been trying different things and I got past the first few pictures, but for some reason ImageMagick
is not really seeing all 153 pictures.
When I enter this identify command in the out directory, it is only seeing 38 of the 153 still.

All 153 of the images display 800 x 600 in properties.
(Inside of out directory I enter "identify *.jpg" and this is the output (notice how it skips around e.g. going from C021 to C034):

C001.jpg JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 269kb 
C002.jpg[1] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 84.3kb 
C003.jpg[2] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 77.8kb 
C004.jpg[3] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 129kb 
C005.jpg[4] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 136kb 
C006.jpg[5] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 131kb 
C007.jpg[6] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 131kb 
C008.jpg[7] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 134kb 
C009.jpg[8] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 338kb 
C010.jpg[9] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 143kb 
C011.jpg[10] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 135kb 
C012.jpg[11] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 95.2kb 
C013.jpg[12] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 121kb 
C014.jpg[13] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 112kb 
C015.jpg[14] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 104kb 
C016.jpg[15] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 135kb 
C017.jpg[16] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 123kb 
C018.jpg[17] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 115kb 
C019.jpg[18] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 120kb 
C020.jpg[19] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 119kb 
C021.jpg[20] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 114kb 
C034.jpg[21] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 61.1kb 
C035.jpg[22] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 98.8kb 
C036.jpg[23] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 107kb 
C038.jpg[24] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 67.1kb 
C041.jpg[25] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 59.1kb 
C042.jpg[26] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 40.2kb 
C043.jpg[27] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 67.5kb 
C044.jpg[28] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 56.4kb 
C045.jpg[29] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 68.4kb 
C051.jpg[30] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 54.8kb 
C052.jpg[31] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 50.2kb 
C053.jpg[32] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 74.5kb 
C058.jpg[33] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 51.3kb 
C059.jpg[34] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 50.7kb 
C060.jpg[35] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 47.1kb 
C069.jpg[36] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 70.9kb 
C125.jpg[37] JPEG 800x600 800x600+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 296kb

Even "ls" and "ls *.jpg" entered in the out directory yield different results.
("ls" lists all files, but only the 38 displayed above are kind of a pink color and the rest are black, while "ls *.jpg" lists only the 38 that are displayed above and all are pink)

So, the problem would be in the convert command and not in the mencoder command.
Would you have any idea why?

Thanks!
PS Thanks to everyone else, but I am on a mission with mencoder right now and it is doing exactly what I want, except for this issue.

[Cavsfan]

I think I discovered something

Only the images that end in .jpg are the ones that are working.
The ones that end in .JPG are not!

If I can figure out a way to get them all to small letters, I think it would work.
And I have found that the properties displaying 800 x 600 do not matter.

Only the jpg vx JPG appears to matter.

[chewearn]

Even "ls" and "ls *.jpg" entered in the out directory yield different results.
("ls" lists all files, but only the 38 displayed above are kind of a pink color and the rest are black, while "ls *.jpg" lists only the 38 that are displayed above and all are pink)

The different colour meant that Ubuntu has somehow identified the files as different type. I think pink are images; black are probably text files. I'm not sure why you ended up with text files.

You could add "-verbose" switch to the "convert" command to see some output during conversion. It might gave a clue.

Only the images that end in .jpg are the ones that are working.
The ones that end in .JPG are not!

Since ext3 file system is case sensitive, "ls *.jpg" and "ls *.JPG" give different results.

[chewearn]

If I can figure out a way to get them all to small letters, I think it would work.

I forgot this part; to rename "JPG" to "jpg":

rename -v 's/JPG/jpg/' *.JPG