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Can you give an example command. I will then put that and your comment in the video formats area. This is what I used that I snipped from some other source online. It probably has extra options I don't need but it makes a nice time-lapse from .jpg files mencoder -nosound mf://*.jpg -mf w=800:h=371 ...

thanks for everybody's help - I'm going to delete download links to save bandwidth

Whoever is writing the docs for IM should just put under "video", "USE MENCODER"... wow it's like 1000 times faster and actually WORKS.

I discovered mencoder and it looks like it works amazingly well:

I can't find any examples of directly calling ffmpeg that work for me. It's installed on the system and apparently used by IM.

I tried using m2v: as in: convert ar1-*.jpg m2v:out.mpg

It still resulted in a 1.5MB crappy quality file

I'm stuck.

Is there an alternative to IM to use for something like this? I simply want to create a time-lapse video of approximately 400-500 jpgs that is of non-horrendous quality.

actually, wtf..... the web site says: 'The current release is ImageMagick 6.6.9-8.' why do I have 6.6.6.10?

I get almost identical results if I use "-quality 100" - it makes no sense and is driving me crazy... HELP!!

# convert -list configure Path: /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.6.6/config/configure.xml Name Value ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC cc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99 CFLAGS -I/usr/local/include/lqr-1 -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0 ...

The command is the same for both: convert *.jpg -quality 85 output.mpg There is a file called ffmpeg2pass-0.log being generated that says stuff like: (don't know if it means anything) in:471 out:471 type:2 q:3658 itex:252 ptex:778 mv:303 misc:1998 fcode:1 bcode:1 mc-var:103979 var:98645 icount:1 ...

I just noticed something when I put new and old mpegs side-by-side. The original images are in 640x480 resolution and the output mpeg is in that resolution, but the new version convert seems to convert the image into a perfect square and that may be responsible for the horrible quality... how do ...

What would be a high-quality setting? I tried: -sampling-factor 1x1 and it didn't appear to make much of a difference.

I have a script that runs that takes webcam .JPG images and converts it to an MPEG file using this command: nice -n 5 /usr/local/bin/convert $ARCDIR/*.jpg -quality 85 /mpeg-archive/daily_timelapse.mpg I recently moved this system/scripts from a FreeBSD 6.2 server using: ImageMagick 6.2.2 01/02/07 ...