JPG to 18-hour video

[Aidan128]

I set up a webcam to take pictures of the ocean in back of my house every 5 minutes over the course of a day. I'd like to take those and assemble an 18-hour video.

Are there any codecs that can assemble ~300 JPGs into a 18-hour video file under a gig? (a framerate way below 1 fps, I suppose)

If so, is there software that I can use to assemble such a video?

Thanks in advance,
Aidan

[SLK001]

AVISynth can do this. Read up on "imagesequence", which can assemble a movie from still pictures. Once you have learned how to do this, view your results using VirtualDub. From VD, you can export an .AVI movie, or frameserve via AVISynth to an MPEG encoder.

[Nelson37]

I'd do it as a slideshow instead, which is essentially what it is.

Many DVD players will do this from just a disk full of images.

[jagabo]

If they're sequentially numbered VirtualDub can open them in one swoop and save as AVI with whatever frame rate you want. Yes, you can set the frame rate to 1/300 fps (one frame every five minutes).

[budwzr]

Vegas Movie Studio opens them in one swoop too, and they come in to the project as a single video.

[Aidan128]

VirtualDub worked great, thanks all!

(side question: anyone know a digital photo frame that can play a 180MB AVI file?)

[DarrellS]

That's how big the finished file was? That seems awful big for a 300 frame AVI. I just created a DivX AVI from 140 jpegs at .003 fps that was 1.36 MB in size. The clip is 12 hours and 58 minutes long and the resolution is 720x404.

[jagabo]

Yes, VirtualDub will save as uncompressed RGB if you don't select a compression codec. Try installing the Xvid codec and saving with Target Quantizer 2. That will be virtually indistinguishable from the source but give you a much smaller file.