Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks fmw42. In fact, it's about 20 times faster! I shake my head wondering hoe this can be, since ImageMagick uses ffmpeg as its mpeg decoder, so it spins wheels somewhere! My problem was trying to figure out the FFmpeg syntax from sites that assume I have far more knowledge and jargon than I do ...

I am trying to create an mp4 from a sequence of PPM files using the command line: convert -delay 4 -quality 75 *.ppm movie1.mp4 I find this to be an incredibly slow process and, as I frequently get more images after to add to my mpeg, I'd dearly love not to have to start the mpeg from scratch. So ...