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This Video to Image Converter is a Free to Download and try with usage limitations. Whether you do have a mov, mp4 or mpeg4 video file, now you can generate a sequence of picture files with Video to Image Converter for Apple’s Macintosh running 10.7, 10.18, 10.9 or even on Mac OS X 10.10. Open the Image Sequence Go to File Open Image Sequence. Choose any image from the sequence. You can choose the first one if you like, but it doesn’t matter–any of them will do. Apr 17, 2020 Select the first image in the sequence. This should be the image with a file name that ends in the lowest number. For example, if your sequence consists of file001.bmp through file110.bmp, click file001.bmp.

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QuickTime 7 Pro: Image Sequences

QuickTime 7 is far from dead. In fact, even today, you can do stuff with it that QuickTime X can’t begin to touch. For example, Charles Love sparked this article with a question:

“Could you do an article on the best way to create time lapse clips with Final Cut Pro X?”

There are multiple answers to his question, but here’s one that will work reliably every time.

BACKGROUND

Whether you are using Final Cut Pro X, FCP 7, any version of Premiere and, probably, Avid, video editing software is designed for editing video clips, not massive numbers of still images. Most video editors bog down when dealing with thousands, or even hundreds, of separate still images.

The ideal way to create time-lapse video is to shoot it that way in the camera. However, not all cameras can record time-lapse video, though most can shoot time-lapse still images.

That’s where QuickTime 7 Pro comes to the rescue. QT7 Pro is only a 32-bit application, which is why Apple moved on to QuickTime X for most movie playback. However, QuickTime 7 is still currently sold and supported by Apple, and it easily creates movie files from individual image sequences.

FIRST NOTE: Click here to purchase QuickTime 7 Pro from the Mac App Store

Adobe premiere pro for mac full version. SECOND NOTE: Click here to read a support note from Apple that explains the installation process.

CREATE THE IMAGES

An image sequence is a group of still images, each sharing the same filename, but a different number at the end. In this example, I’m working with twelve different images to create a custom countdown clock. Notice that the file names are identical, except for the sequence number at the end.

This image sequence can be created anywhere. For example, here, I created it using a sequence of PNG files created in Photoshop. Generally, though, these sequences are created in a still camera that is programmed to take an image every X seconds.

Once the images are recorded, store them all in the same folder. The numbers in the file name indicate the order in which the images will be combined into a movie.

CONVERT THE IMAGES INTO A MOVIE

Once you gather all your images into one place, its time for QuickTime Player 7 to work it’s magic.

NOTE: QuickTime Player X can’t do this. You must use QuickTime Player 7 Pro to convert image sequences into a movie.

Open QuickTime Player 7 and choose File > Open Image Sequence.

Navigate to the FIRST image in the folder containing the image sequence. In this example, I stored the images in a folder named “Image Sequence.” You can name this folder any thing you want.

Once you’ve selected the first image, click Open.

This is the magical part. A dialog pops up allowing you to choose the frame rate you want to assign to these images.

As you move higher in the list, the images flash past more quickly. Select the frame rate that best represents the time-lapse speed you want.

NOTE: You don’t set this to match the frame rate of your project. When you import the movie into your video editor, it will render this file to the correct frame rate, while maintaining the playback speed you select here.

Almost instantly, these individual images are built into a movie file, in the order in which they were numbered in the folder.

The last step is to save the movie file. Click File > Save As and save the new movie as a self-contained movie.

This QuickTime movie stores your images in the same format you saved them. (In my example, they are saved in Apple PNG format, which is not really a video format but really high-quality.) This means that when you bring this movie into your editor, it will render the file to match your sequence/project settings.

NOTE: Once the image sequence is imported into your editing software, you can still make speed changes to the clip. However, you’ll retain the highest image quality if you modify the speed of the images in QuickTime Player 7 during import, rather than after the clip is created and imported into your video editor.

By the way, here’s the finished video: Larry’s Countdown

Done. Cool.

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Movie Creation in PyMOL

This page talks about how to take your export movie frames and turn them into an actual movie. For learning how to make a movie in the first place, see MovieSchool.

Encoding video files

Animated GIF

Quality note: Converting to video generally leads to a loss of quality and inflated file sizes. Gif animation gives a good alternative, retaining the original quality and maintaining small file sizes, however it lacks play controls. With skillful use of frame delays during the generation of the Gif it is possible to create pauses to emphasize certain frames. Ulead Gif Animator works well although there are many programs to choose from. To create files with many frames in Ulead add around 150 files as frames at a time.

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Avidemux

Avidemux is a great tool to stich your image files together as a movie. It can read the PNG output stack from Pymol and encode a movie using almost all codecs currently available. The program has an easy to use graphical interface, making the conversion simple compared to some of the other options available to you.

Mencoder/Mplayer

Mplayer is an award-winning open source movie player. Mencoder (which comes packaged with Mplayer) is its movie encoder. Mencoder can take in various file formats (png,gif,jpg) and convert them to movies.

Assuming you have created a lot of .png files and would like to encode a .mpeg, .avi or other video format, a number of solutions are known:

The DiVX encoder using mplayer and mencoder? There's binaries for Unix and Windows. It makes rather nice compression on a 800x600 (probably higher). It doesn't take too long to produce the nicer quailty movies, but much longer than simply

namely something like (this command worked BEST for my case; it's all one line connect it where the backslashes are).

The mpeg4 codec requires a DivX plugin which is not a part of the default installation on some operation systems. The codec msmpeg4v2 makes movies which are more likely to be playable on standard Windows players and can be used with mencoder e.g.

This encoder line is however not optimised (yet), and the codec also produces a bit larger files than the mpeg4 at the same visual quality according to the Mplayer homepage.

Troubleshooting

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If your movie shows up in PowerPoint with only the first frame showing, or is just a black square, try adding -of asf or -of avi.
If the above line complains about the codec part, then replace the word codec in the command line with vcodec.

Virtual Dub

Virtual Dub is an open-source, robust piece of software that allows easy creation of .AVI files from image sequences (such as *.PNG created by PyMol). https://downaload707.weebly.com/useful-mac-shortcuts.html. After opening Virtual Dub, select File Menu --> Open Video File --> under 'files of type' select image sequence (*.png, etc).

After viewing (and editing) the movie, choose save as AVI (F7) from File menu.This generates high quality, yet very large, AVI files; in order to down-size the files into formats which fit PowerPoint, free software such as FormatFactory (FF) is available for download and easy use.

Keywords

mencoder, mplayer, movie

Other Options

For those with Photoshop CS3 installed: Load files using File - Scripts - Load Files into Stack. This loads the files as layers. Turn on the animation window at Window - Animation. You may need to reverse the frames for the correct direction - this is done at the animation window using the drop menu above the frames. You will also want to set a delay on the frames, select all frames using the dropdown menu and and then adjust to 0.2s on one of the frames. Then export the film using File - Export - Render Video. There are plenty of options for format and compression types. I found a quicktime movie with no compression at 10f/s to be right for my needs. The video could get quite big, but it will look as good as pymol. Alternatively you can also create animated GIFs in Photoshop. Once you have the frames of your clip as above, choose File - Save for Web and Devices and then save the GIF. The limit of 200 pictures is a problem in Photoshop.
Another good program for converting images into movies of different formats is VideoMach : http://gromada.com/VideoMach.html
TMPGEnc from http://www.tmpgenc.net is very fast, easy to use, and produces very nice ouput (MPEG-2). Unfortunately, it does not handle images larger than 720 x 576 pixels.
Adobe Premiere recipe, using Microsoft's MPEG4 V2, 960x720 @ 30 fps, which PowerPoint automatically treats as full-screen (due it's wacky metrics). Using this codec, a recent 24-second movie consumed only 4.5 MB of space, but looks much better than a 640x480 Cinepak-based movie with a file size of around ~40 MB. It definitely pays to use the latest technology.
A freeware jiffy to convert png files to an animation is imgcon, which proved to be very useful:http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~yongyue/imgcondl.html
The program convert, part of the ImageMagick suite of programs can be used provided the program mpeg2encode is in your path. mpeg2encode can be found here http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG/. To make an mpeg file, go

If you want to make an animated gif, do

Movies on a Mac

QT Pro

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On a Mac, it's easy enough to just fire up QuickTime Player and select

This will prompt you to select the first png file in a folder and load all other pngs with the same base name in that folder. Then simply export these frames as a movie with any of the available quicktime codecs at a frame rate you like.

Alternative

The above requires QT Pro ($25). For free you can use this: [1].

In a Presentation

You don't need to convert the PyMol scene to a movie, just save session as a .psw (pymol show file) with the scenes embedded in there. Then from within Power|Point just set up a hyperlink (Insert hyperlink) and point it to the .psw file. In presentation mode when you click on the hyperlink pymol automatically boots and you can scroll thru your scens like a full screen powerpoint presentation. You have to make sure that you have pymol installed on your presentation computer (and you have your psw file) and just click OK when powerpoint warns of the perils of non-microsoft products. the final scene will return to your powerpoint presentation without any effort.