Is there any way to join a series of .bmp's...

[toomey]

Is there any way to join a series of .bmp's to create a video file (.avi,.asf,or .mpg)? If there is what's a good free app that can be used to do it? TIA.

[spidey]

I drag and drop a whole index into Vegas Video. It defaults them to 5 seconds a piece and transitions nicely to the next pic.

Drag them in and render it out an Mpeg, you're done really quick and easy.

[DjPj]

You could try bbMpeg. Make a .txt file with the path to each bmpfile, like:
c:\test\test1.bmp
c:\test\test2.bmp
and so on. Save it as something.lst and load it into bbMpeg. Now it's just to start encoding.
But there's proabably a easier way to do it.

[toomey]

DjPj : I'm trying the method you suggested w/ bbMpeg, doesn't seem to be working, at least I'm not getting it to work.

Bear with me here, complete newbie, you state to save the list as "something.lst" when I try to do that bbMpeg says it can't read the file. How are you saving the list as a .lst? maybe that's my problem. I have the .txt document how do I make it .lst?

Thanks for your patience and help.

[DjPj]

just rename the .txt document to .lst
the add it to bbmpeg and it should work. i think...

[vitualis]

If your intention if for each bitmap to be a frame (as opposed to 1 second in length or something), then VirtualDub will load a bitmap series with each pic as a frame in the video.

Regards.

[toomey]

Vitualis: Which version of VirtualDub should I use? I currently run 1.3c (I work with some .asf files) I couldn't seem to figure out how to get it to work :oops: what's the path to that option? Thanks for your advice and patience.

[vitualis]

The version of VirtualDub I've got on my PC is 1.4.5. I don't know if your version can do the same thing, but if it doesn't, there's no harm in installing two versions of VirtualDub on your PC in separate folders...

File --> Open Video File -->

Change "Files of type" to "All Files *.*"

Load up your first BMP.

The bitmaps will have to be named in a sequence (e.g., pic001.bmp, pic002.bmp, pic003.bmp, etc.)

Then you can change the framerate, framesize, compression, apply filters, etc., and then save it as an AVI.

Regards.