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januari 2020

Ever wanted to create a stop motion movie? If you are on a Mac you can do so for free from the command line. We will use imagemagick and ffmpeg available on Mac with homebrew.

brew install imagemagick
brew install ffmpeg

we need to convert our images:

convert '*.jpg[1920x]' resized%03d.jpg

create the movie:

ffmpeg -f image2 -r 8 -i "resized%03d.jpg" -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -vcodec libx264 -vf scale=640:-2,format=yuv420p movie.mp4
Tinkering:

"the act of making some small changes to something, in an attempt to improve it or repair it."