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1279816 2012-06-05 23:26:00 Hi All,

I have around 22,000 small jpeg images (motion detection images taken over a period of time). Can anyone suggest an application to merge all these images into a video clip?

Cheers :thumbs:
GR8Metal (14133)
1279817 2012-06-05 23:38:00 Are they numbered numerically? Or in order?

I'm assuming one pic per frame?

Most video editing suites allow this.

Me being a simpleton use VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/)
bob_doe_nz (92)
1279818 2012-06-05 23:41:00 Yep, all images are named as date/time etc.
I have PowerDirector 8 but this can only support up to 2,500 images....
GR8Metal (14133)
1279819 2012-06-06 01:32:00 I have successfully used the free graphic viewing program XnView to convert 3000 JPG images to a single EXE slideshow with perfect results. You can also create screensaver or video output.
22000 ???

Download full version zip file here: download2.xnview.com
Details: www.xnview.com or www.xnview.org

Menu > Create > Slide Show
Scubadoo (16151)
1279820 2012-06-06 03:02:00 If you don't mind a bit of command-line bashing, pretty sure FFmpeg will do that (probably all in one line). An example from their docs:

ffmpeg -f image2 -i foo-%03d.jpeg -r 12 -s WxH foo.avi

Where WxH is the output resolution
MushHead (10626)
1279821 2012-06-06 03:09:00 Or buy a dvd or whatever that supports them. Then all you need, is a USB flash drive Speedy Gonzales (78)
1279822 2012-06-06 04:31:00 Just tried ffmpeg with ~18000 files (created by extracting each frame of a short video to JPEG's) & worked OK. Mind you, you may have to tweak the quality settings to get an output that does the originals justice. MushHead (10626)
1279823 2012-06-06 05:03:00 Not sure what's used here, but here's 4000.
www.youtube.com

Failing all else, why not make multiple clips and then merge them once they're videos? Wouldn't that be the simplest option?
8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1279824 2012-06-06 08:49:00 Making clips and merging them would be a lot of transcoding. Kinda lossy esp as many security cams are not exactly HQ The Error Guy (14052)
1279825 2012-06-07 02:56:00 Thanks for all replies. Managed to get this app en.cze.cz
Works really well. Point to a folder with images, then converts to video. easy!
GR8Metal (14133)
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