Still Pictures to Movie

[nickmccarty]

I know there are a bunch of slideshow programs out there, but I can never find one with low enough transition periods between slides. I have about 2,000 pictures of a house being built and I want to play them fast enough to look like a movie. What would be the best software to do this? Perferably freeware, but I can handle a small price tag as well. Thanks for your help

[Bjs]

Slide show movie maker

Guide here : https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=296748

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Just a quick calculation from my guide :

3.30minutes (original title's play time length , each with 35 picture's)
165 photo's (total of picture's included in guide project)
Size = 170mb's (total project output size , ready to burn)

Calc :

4300mb div by 170mb = 25 x 170mb title's
25 title's x 165 picture's = 4125 picture's on dvd .

Of course if I scraped the transition's , it could go past 6000 picture's .
Audio from project was null , coverted to ac3 at 96kpbs
Each picture display's for about 5 second's before blend kick's in ...

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From what I have been told , there is some confusion as to the number of cell's per title .

From what I read from many source's , it's 255 .

However pgcedit has problem's with more than 100 cell's per title .

If the former is true , then each picture can have chapter point's defind , as in my guide .
If the later is true , consider using the least number of chapter point's as possible .

None of my player's have issue's doing it my way , as I stick to the former , being 255 cell's per title .

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I have also shown another method to bypass the "play all title's" issue I discovered ... it's in the guide .

Normally this is not an issue , but with the slideshow's I create , it is a real hum dinger to avoid .

[jimmalenko]

Do you want it to look like a time-lapse photography sort of thing ?

[nickmccarty]

thanks for your help bjs, I will try that out.
And yeah...kind of like on the discovery channel when they show an animal rotting away...heh

[jimmalenko]

What format are the images in ?
And what format / codec would you prefer the movie to be in ?

[Bjs]

One thing I forgot too mention was :

As these will be avi's , they need to be converted to mpeg2 ... so .

In slide show movie maker , I set the video compression to xvid at 2300kpbs for 720x576 res .
Give's pretty clear result's for jpeg's .

Set audio to cd quality (this will produce null fill audio) , or add your own (this will decrease the number of picture's you could jam into 4300mb space ... it will simply loop this audio when required) .

When output is completed , run bbmpeg (not the vfw version), click "add" load avi just created .
(if xvid error , use nic's fourcc to correct it to xvid on both box's ... seem's to be a common occurance)
Hit start encode .

Next box , hit setting's .

Here you goto video stream setting's .
Check box for pal if using pal , set to mpeg2 .

Goto input / output file tab .
Click the two white check box's .

Goto general setting's .
Uncheck both check box's to multiplexer's .

Click ok , then start , and wait .

Should there be any issue's here , consider following my guide on frameserving for vdub in the guide's section .

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Convert mp2 audio file to ac3 using besweet .

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These mpeg2 (mv2) and audio (ac3) will be acceptable to both dvdauthorgui and ifoedit ... and be perfect .

My theory is , if ifoedit bellies up when authoring stream's , then it's a problem within the stream's themselve's , not ifoedit .

In this case , the stream's should be properly encoded .

I dont burn nothing that ifoedit won't touch ... of course I alway's encode with bbmpeg which has never failed ...

What was it again , ifoedit for pal , rejig for nstc .. I think ... though personally I have not come across this problem with pal source and rejig like other's ...

Note : Ifoedit make's a good dvd player under win98 / win98se / winme / and win2000 ... under xp , forget it .

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It's a challenge ... but I'll see what I can jam into 4300mb's and write another guide for it .. now that partition's d and e were cleaned out this morning (preparing space for more guide's) .

Now to go and knock off friend's family album's .

According to the spec's , the maximum number of chapter point's is 25245 ... that's a hugh amount of picture's ...

Might need to knock over the local library for this one ...

[nickmccarty]

the images are all jpegs. I would perfer a simple divx file but really anything will work. Bjs, i appreicate all of the indepth instructions, but that stuff seems so long and complex. Im looking for one of those noob-e tools

[jimmalenko]

Given what you've said so foar, virtualdub (with or without AVISynth) would be my tip, and accepts BMP or TGA input (JPEG using AVISynth I think) and can load all files if the files are numbered sequentially. I would think you'd look at around 10-15 fps to get the look you're after. However it's probably gonna look fairly jerky unless you had a fixed camera point.

[nickmccarty]

thanks jimmalenko, I will try that. I do actually have a fixed camera so hopefuly this will look real smooth (and cool)

[jimmalenko]

I'm envisioning a "rooftop camera looking at the clouds moving in the sky" type effect such as what they show for the weather forecasts occasionally as what you're trying to achieve ?