The whole Quicktime 7 and Automator script process seemed a bit tortured for something that should be really very simple. Just like I suspected there should be a way to do image processing via the command line, I wondered if I could do the same for movie creation. Enter FFMPEG.
Install FFMPEG
- Install Homebrew a command line package manager for lots of little system extensions that doesn’t disrupt the works of MacOSX.
- Install FFMPEG
Then all that is need to create a video from the files:
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| #REQUIRES FFMPEG | |
| mogrify *.png -gravity south -crop 1240×860+0+0 +repage *.png | |
| ffmpeg -framerate 4 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4 |
I don’t totally understand all those settings, but they work.
References
- http://superuser.com/questions/533695/how-can-i-convert-a-series-of-png-images-to-a-video-for-youtube
- https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20video%20slideshow%20from%20images
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