Windows application to combine lots of JPGs into an mpg/avi?

NeilF · 28 Aug 2012 at 19:55

I'm doing some time elapsed photography and want to combine the hundreds/thousands of jpgs into a video.

Ideally the program should also be able to resize the jpgs accordingly etc!?

Anyone recommend an application to do this. Ideally free

The_Abyss · 28 Aug 2012 at 20:22

Er - Windows Live Movie Maker?

NeilF · 28 Aug 2012 at 21:43

The_Abyss said:
Er - Windows Live Movie Maker?

OK... I'll have a look (on Vista)...

Phal · 28 Aug 2012 at 23:13

Windows movie maker is part of the MS Live installer now (same thing you need for MSN Messenger now called Live Messenger) along with a bunch of other stuff.

Just in case people didn't know

Amp34 · 29 Aug 2012 at 12:48

Vobdub will do it easily. Just select the first image and save as .avi.

NeilF · 29 Aug 2012 at 12:57

Amp34 said:
Vobdub will do it easily. Just select the first image and save as .avi.

I'll take a look! Ta!

EDIT: Do you mean VirtualDub?

Phal · 29 Aug 2012 at 13:07

NeilFawcett said:
I'll take a look! Ta!

EDIT: Do you mean VirtualDub?

Virtualdub rings a bell... I used something like this years ago when I made some CS movies. You had to record demos and then the only way to make good quality movies was to export lots and lots of still images to be compiled to avi after.

SeraphX · 29 Aug 2012 at 14:30

i use Startrails
it's free and gives the option for stacking the images or creating a video

Amp34 · 29 Aug 2012 at 23:25

NeilFawcett said:
I'll take a look! Ta!

EDIT: Do you mean VirtualDub?

Erm... Yes...

I always type it wrong!

The only issue is (AFAIK) you can't change the resolution of the image>video, but then it's fairly easy either way, either resize the images first or import the exported video into another program and resize the video there.*

*Or you may well be able to do it in VirtualDub...

SeraphX said:
i use Startrails
it's free and gives the option for stacking the images or creating a video

I have used startrails before and like it a lot (especially for actual star trails) however it won't create HD videos as far as I could see.

NeilF · 30 Aug 2012 at 09:40

Amp34 said:
The only issue is (AFAIK) you can't change the resolution of the image>video.

I'll have to refresh my memory on image magik commands

That can batch resize easily...

Origin · 30 Aug 2012 at 19:11

If you have Lightroom, then you can try this. Does all the work for you and then exports your video. I tried it yesterday and it works brilliantly