I've got a few thousand .jpeg image files that I'd like to combine into a single movie.
In the past I've used AddMovie, but it chokes on that many .jpeg files. I've heard that QuickTimePro can do this, but I haven't been able to figure out how.
If QTP can do this, would some one tell how to do so or point me to an explanation describing how to do so?
Thanks.
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
QuickTime Player Pro can import image files as a "sequence" of images at various frame rates. This is best used for "sequential" images (a series of shots of the same subject).
If you have non sequential images they can also be inserted in a QuickTime .mov file at various frame rates or added (Scaled) to an audio track.
QuickTime .mov files can have up to 99 "tracks" so you could combine multiple image sequences into one project. QuickTime Player Pro also allows you to "layer" multiple files into one project. Each layer can have their own position, opacity and even "mask" other parts of the video.
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/03war/
One of my "movies" made using QuickTime Player Pro.
QuickTime Player Pro can import image files as a "sequence" of images at various frame rates. This is best used for "sequential" images (a series of shots of the same subject).
If you have non sequential images they can also be inserted in a QuickTime .mov file at various frame rates or added (Scaled) to an audio track.
QuickTime .mov files can have up to 99 "tracks" so you could combine multiple image sequences into one project. QuickTime Player Pro also allows you to "layer" multiple files into one project. Each layer can have their own position, opacity and even "mask" other parts of the video.
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/03war/
One of my "movies" made using QuickTime Player Pro.
A much delayed thanks to QuickTimeKirk.
However, I've got another question.
When I open an image sequence in QuickTimePro (QTP), it opens a single image. What I have is tens of thousands of a sequence if images in .jpeg files, each image is a fraction of a second after the image before it.
I've been dragging and dropping a number of these image into the QTP movie window, but I can't drag and drop more than a few hundred at a time, maybe even up to a thousand. But this is tedious.
Is there a way to select all of the .jpeg files at once and add them to the image sequence that I've opened in QTP?
An "image sequence" is made from a folder of sequentially named image files. They should be sized the same, too.
Once the files are properly named (1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc.) you open Image Sequence (File menu), navigate to the folder and select the first image in the list. Just the first image is highlighted.
A dialog window will now appear where you select the "frame rate". In a few seconds QuickTime will open a new player window with all of the image files in sequential order.
If you only got a single image in your attempt then I suspect QuickTime can't interpret your naming scheme. It doesn't like any punctuation or symbols in file names.
There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto, iMovie or iDVD and some limit the number of photos you can use (iDVD has a 99 chapter (slide) limitation).
If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!
Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, including adding other video clips, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast, for burning.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!
To simply create a slide show in iDVD 7 onwards from images in iPhoto or stored in other places on your hard disk or a connected server, look here:
Thanks for the replies.
First, my aim isn't to make a slide show, rather it is to make a movie of a bunch of images recorded by a camera I have in my front yard that is triggered by motion detection. When motion is detected a series of 50 or so images, each about half a second apart, is recorded and e-mailed to me. The images are named with the date and time of the image. For instance an image might me named image11_11_11_11_11_11_11.jpg where the name tells you the year, month, day, hour, minute, second and fraction of a second that the image was recorded. For what it's worth, Finder can accurately order the sequence of .jpeg files by sorting on their name.
So I think I understand now that QTP is having trouble with the names of the images and that's what only a single image is imported into the image sequence. My work around is to drag and drop the images into the QTP window. This works and I've made movies like this in this manner before with a lot of success. However, I make one movie for each month. The month I'm working on now has over 19,000 images (I usually end up with a movie that's over ten minutes long). It's impossible for me to select all 19,000+ images and drag and drop them into QTP and I have to do it in chunks. But as I wrote above, that's tedious. Is there another way to get the images into QTP? Alternatively, is there some easy way to rename the images while preserving their order?
Thanks again.
Combine thousands of .jpg files into a movie?
