Making Videos from Images

My daughter collected a nice series of images of the demolition of the old Steetley chimney in Hartlepool:

There are 25 images, so we thought it would be nice to make a little movie of them.

First they need a bit of processing, because the horizontal is not level.   We rotated the images, and trimmed off the edges to straighten them up using ImageMagick using:

mogrify -resize '700' -rotate 4 -shave '50x60' -resize '640' *.JPG 

This re-sizes the images to 700 pixels wide, rotates clockwise by 4 deg, shaves 50 pixels of the top and bottom, and 60 pixels off the sides.  It then re-sizes to 640 pixels wide. We then turned it into an mp4 avi movie file using mplayer's mencoder using:

mencoder "mf://*.JPG" -mf fps=4 -o Steetley.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800 -vf scale=640:480

This plays nicely using mplayer, and uploads to flickr too.

Final movie is here:

Or on Flickr here