How to convert bitmaps to video?

Question

My application creates images from fractals and I love the feeling of \'flying\' around a fractal. I once saved about 2000 bitmaps to file and created an AVI from it using P

Answer 1

There's actually a really easy way to do this using ffmpeg without any code at all. Simply name all your image files something like:

image-0001.png

Then use ffmpeg to bundle them up into a video:

ffmpeg -i 'img-%04d.png' -r 10 out.avi

(-r is the output frame rate.)