Re: Movie makers for Linux?
On 16 Oct 2001 16:19:40 -0600, "Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> wrote:
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> That almost works. First I had to hunt down mpeg2encode because it's
> used by convert and not included in any Debian package (as far as I
> could tell). After I did that I tried the command
>
> convert *.png movie.mpg
>
> and it's doing something really funky, it's using every 12th png file
> in the movie, eg., I have 100 frames and it starts with frame 1 then
> frame 13, frame 25, frame 37, etc.
>
> Anyway, I might have to move over to the SGI and use their tools. Of
> course they don't work with PNG files...
>
> If anyone else has other Linux solutions please pipe in!
ucbmpeg works (more or less). You have to write a control file and
it takes a bit of tweaking to get good results, but it's doable. It
likes pnm files (though I think it will use png directly as well).
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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