local-guru.net http://www.local-guru.net/blog 40 http://www.local-guru.net//blog/2010/1/12/making-a-video-from-single-frames <p>if you have exported a directory full of single frames from a processing sketch or a tool like <a href="http://toonloop.com/">toonloop</a> or gimp you can combine them to a video using mencoder like this.</p> <pre><code>mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=12 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg </code></pre> <p>the mplayer manual has <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html">more details</a> in case you need them</p> <p>here is a sample video i made using toonloop and some colored buildingblocks</p> <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8691969&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8691969&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8691969">buildingblocks toonloop video</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2956553">Nikolaus Gradwohl</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> 2010-01-12T11:33:00+01:00