https://blog.thameera.com Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:31:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 139676693 https://blog.thameera.com/saving-a-video-into-a-sequence-of-images/ https://blog.thameera.com/saving-a-video-into-a-sequence-of-images/#comments thameera Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:31:22 +0000 Uncategorized ffmpeg gif gimp image jpg linux video http://thameera.wordpress.com/?p=150 I wanted to create a GIF out of a part of a video sequence. But how could one extract a sequence of images from a video? After some googling FFMPEG turned out to be the savior. Here’s a sample command for taking a series of snapshots out of a video using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -ss 23…<p><a class="more-link" href="https://blog.thameera.com/saving-a-video-into-a-sequence-of-images/" title="Continue reading ‘Saving a video into a sequence of images’">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> <p><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-152" decoding="async" height="162" src="https://blog.thameera.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tham.gif" title="tham" width="220"/>I wanted to create a GIF out of a part of a video sequence. But how could one extract a sequence of images from a video? After some googling <a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/" target="_blank">FFMPEG</a> turned out to be the savior. Here’s a sample command for taking a series of snapshots out of a video using ffmpeg:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>ffmpeg -ss 23 -i kids.mp4 -f image2 -vframes 50 a%2d.jpg</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>23 is the position in the video to start extracting images (in seconds). <em>kids.mp4</em> is the input video file. <em>image2</em> says that the output would be in JPEG format. 50 is the number of frames to capture. <em>a%2d.jpg</em> is the format of the output file, i.e. in this case the files would be saved as <em>a01.jpg, a02.jpg, </em>etc.</p> <p>The next step would be to convert the sequence of images to a GIF, which can be easily done using GIMP.</p> https://blog.thameera.com/saving-a-video-into-a-sequence-of-images/feed/ 4 150