Water Lilies
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Video made with mpeg2encode, ImageMagick, Audacity, The Gimp, bash shell scripts, on a GNU/Linux computer.
Quickstart: Making a video with GNU/Linux.
1. Download images from digital camera.
2. Convert JPG images to PPM.
3. Make black, title, and credits screens in The Gimp.
4. Resize all images from 640×480 to 320×240.
5. Duplicate images in numerical sequence.
6. Run the parameter making script:
make_mpeg2encode_parfile images*.ppm
7. Edit mpeg2encode.par
lines
2. frame%4d /* name of source files */
7. 2 /* input picture file format: 2=*.ppm */
* 8. 520 /* number of frames */
9. 1 /* number of first frame */
13. 1 /* ISO/IEC 11172-2 stream (1=MPEG-1)*/
14. 0 /* 0:frame pictures */
15. 320 /* horizontal_size */
16. 240 /* vertical_size */
17. 8 /* aspect_ratio_information */
18. 3 /* frame_rate_code 3=25 */
8. Run mpeg2encode to make the movie.
mpeg2encode mpeg2encode.par video.mpg
9. Edit the sound in Audacity.
10. Add the sound to the video:
ffmpeg -i sound.ogg video.mpg lilies.mpg
Duration : 0:0:21