Image Sequence to DVD conversion

[stalker11]

Does anyone know how to convert a sequence of BMP images directly to MPEG2. I tried doing it through Ulead Media Studio frameserving to TMPGEnc. However, this causes noticable image quality loss. Ideally I would like a program a program to encode the image sequence directly to MPEG2 for DVD unless someone has any better ideas.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[daamon]

Hi stalker11,

You could use Slide Show Movie Maker to make an AVI from your bitmaps and then encode that to an MPEG. The tool is free and also does fades and transitions which a "direct to MPEG" tool might not do.

[tin2tin]

Use avisynth + QuEnc.

[BJ_M]

you can:

use tmpgenc
use procoder 2
use vegas
use CCE

load the bmp's into avisynth or virtualdubmod and frame serve them to everything else ...

[stalker11]

Thanks for the help. I tried the first suggestion posted, however, QuEnc didn't offer me the features I wanted; plus I am more familiar with TMPGEnc. However, I did get AviSynth and I frameserved from Ulead Media Studio using Ulead's image sequence format. AviWrapper seems to have some encoding artifacts when frameserving through it, it looks much better through Synth. This was probably the easiest way for me to do it, I don't really want to be messing around with Virtualdub's frameserving right now anyway, I've used Virtualdub much before, but never for frameserving.

Thanks for the help, I must salute the members of this forum, you guys have good response time... keep it up.

[Baldrick]

use tmpgenc or tmpgenc plus and under Option-> Environmental setting-> General, check the box for "Open sequence files as a movie". Open the first bmp and all will be opened automatically.

[Baldrick]

you must use latest version of tmpgenc (2.521).

[BJ_M]

all the bmps must be in the same directory also ..
and named sequentially

example:

image.0000.bmp
image.0001.bmp
image.0002.bmp
image.0003.bmp

and so forth

[housepig]

BJ_M -

quick question - when importing into Vegas, how would you go about setting the image duration?

I have a sequence of 129 frames, and I want them to last about 6-7 seconds each. I import the sequence into Vegas 4, and it gives me about a 3 second video file.

I CTRL-drag the end of the sequence in the timeline, but it will only allow me to drag it out to about 20 seconds or so.

Is there any way to globally set the duration of each image? is there a trick I'm missing?

[BJ_M]

in options you can do this - set time of each image ... PLUS do not import as a image seq as that is same as a video file (1 frame per frame 1/30 sec)

import as a bunch of stills (do NOT check off import image seq.) ... these dont need to be numbered in seq either ....

[housepig]

in options you can do this - set time of each image ... PLUS do not import as a image seq as that is same as a video file (1 frame per frame 1/30 sec)

import as a bunch of stills (do NOT check off import image seq.) ... these dont need to be numbered in seq either ....

thanks for the info - if I import a bunch of stills, without checking off "import image seq" what order will they appear in?

if they are a numbered sequence, will they propagate the video timeline in numeric order, or will I have to shuffle them around?

[housepig]

BJ_M -

thanks for your help - got it figured out.

[BJ_M]

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