[magick-users] Controlling image size when generating MPEG movies

duc.sequere.aut.de.via.decede at imagemagick.org duc.sequere.aut.de.via.decede at imagemagick.org
Wed Aug 20 12:14:46 PDT 2008


> short movies, but if I try to do a long movie, it uses up all the memory 

You can force the pixel to disk to reduce memory consumption:

  convert -limit memory 1mb *.jpg movie.mpg

Also, consider upgrading ImageMagick to the current release, 6.4.3-0.  It
uses ffmpeg as its backend decoder / encoder.


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