[magick-developers] Problems with convert

[jcupitt at gmail.com]

On 11/2/07, Michael Lehn <michael.lehn at uni-ulm.de> wrote:
> I want to visualize results of a numerical simulation.  This produces
> for example 6000 images (typically I need much more):
>
>         data/particle_0001.gif
>         data/particle_0002.gif
>         data/particle_0003.gif
>         data/particle_0004.gif
>         data/particle_0005.gif
>         data/particle_0006.gif
>         data/particle_0007.gif
>         ...
>         data/particle_6000.gif
>
> My naive idea was to create an animated gif

I would suggest another image format. How about generating a movie
file, such as mpeg? You'll save a *huge* amount of space. Plus, if you
encode correctly, you'll be able to seek backwards and forwards in
your file.

mencoder, for example, will make a movie from a set of still frames like this:

   mencoder "mf://*.png" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4

John