Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hi All,
I am using Imagemagick for creating gif animation and then render it to a video file.
In Imagemagick, i am finding difficult to create special effects for gif animation.
I found out POV-Ray which does the work and the use image magick to render it to video.
The problem is it takes too long to render all the images for a given scene .

Is there any other command line tool which does this at a better speed.

ImageMagick is not really designed for large video sequences. It is designed for individual image modifications and small GIF animations.

What happens is that it loads ALL the image sof a sequence in memory, then works on them. Because of this you are probably filling memory, causing IM to swap images from disk storage.

For video it is better to work on the images with IM individually, then use a image sequence to video converter directly.

Notes on this is in IM Magick, Common File Formats http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#mpeg
and look at alternatives.

ImageMagick can work with large video sequences with the right options and plenty of disk space. Add -limit memory 0 -limit map 0 to your command line to force the pixels to temporary disk. However, since it does send pixels to disk, the process will be slow.