Making a video using a folder of pictures as the frames

[Jeremified offline]

Does anybody know of a good program that can convert a folder of pictures into a video (similar to the way a .gif works, but in .wmv or .mpg format)? I don't want it to be like a slideshow, though- the frames should move as fast as a regular movie (27-30 fps). What program can I use for that?

[Tangent128 offline]

How about MEncoder?

Probably with a command line like so:

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mencoder mf://*.png -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4

...to process all pngs in the directory.

Check the documentation, though. There are lots of options.

[Jeremified offline]

For some odd reason, Winamp couldn't read the output, so I just had to use the lossy .wmv encoder with WMM.
Ta-da, awesome Xana animation!

[Tangent128 offline]

Interesting. Clean animation. Could use some more action, though.

[Yumi Ulrich offline]

Windows Movie Maker just import the picture and thengo to options and put frame length to like 1sec.

[TheLQ offline]

Windows Movie Maker just import the picture and thengo to options and put frame length to like 1sec.

Uh..., its called an automovie. Or you could just change the default settings under tools>options>advanced, then add all of the pictures to the timeline.