Good movie making software?

[rsvmilly]

Can anybody recommend a good, cheap/free programme to create movies from a series of still images. The stills are 640x480 and taken by a webcam at intervals of 15/hr.

I have tried the WinXP movie maker programme but the quality of the end product seems to suffer. Also, the movies produced tend to be huge so something which saves as DivX or similar would be good.

One problem I have with importing images into Movie Maker is that I can't turn the transitions off completely. It seems to default to a minimum of 0.25 seconds. When I want around 10 fps this means some overlap in the images.

Any suggestions?

[TheExcession]

rsvmilly said:

Can anybody recommend a good, cheap/free programme to create movies from a series of still images. The stills are 640x480 and taken by a webcam at intervals of 15/hr. I have tried the WinXP movie maker programme but the quality of the end product seems to suffer. Also, the movies produced tend to be huge so something which saves as DivX or similar would be good. One problem I have with importing images into Movie Maker is that I can't turn the transitions off completely. It seems to default to a minimum of 0.25 seconds. When I want around 10 fps this means some overlap in the images. Any suggestions?

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[FourWheelDrift]

Do you have access to MSOffice? Powerpoint will create a stand-alone screenshow, not sure how fast the images can be made to change though.

[chrisjl]

mencoder will do anything->anything conversions (including stills to DivX, at whatever frame rate you want), and works on Windows these days, but is not very beginner friendly.

What quantity of source data are we talking about? If it's emailable (or you can post it somewhere I could download it from) I don't mind having a go.

[rsvmilly]

chrisjl said:

mencoder will do anything->anything conversions (including stills to DivX, at whatever frame rate you want), and works on Windows these days, but is not very beginner friendly. What quantity of source data are we talking about? If it's emailable (or you can post it somewhere I could download it from) I don't mind having a go.

Thanks for the offer although I don't think that'll be practical. We're talking about around 7-800mb worth of stills. Basically, it is the complete record of a building going up.

We are using fast-track methods but we're still talking of around 9 weeks at 15 pics per hour. Typical file size of 80-100k.

[chrisjl]

You could send me say the first 5MB worth, and if it's not too painful a process I'll tell you how it's done so you can do the full thing yourself. No promises though.

[m12_nathan]

memories on TV

www.picturetotv.com/

I've used this for doing exactly what you're after.

[chrisjl]

m12_nathan said:

memories on TV www.picturetotv.com/ I've used this for doing exactly what you're after.

Does that let you wind the frame rate right up? All the talk of slideshows on the linked page has me thinking 10 seconds per frame, rather than the desired 10 frames per second.