im2video

An effective video maker from image sequence and with transition effects between frames.

Build from source

For macos

Firstly, install dependencies with brew

brew install cmake opencv@2
brew install lapack glog libiconv

Compile to get the executable binary file

cd im2video
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../src/
make

For linux

For windows

How to use

Make sure the effects directory and the executable binary file in same directory.

./im2video --script ../example/input.xml --out out.avi

input.xml defines the images and the transition between frames need full fill by yourself, and it allow use an remote image like http://lena.jpg. The execution will generate temporally dir in /tmp/ to store some images or logs.

An example of input.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<ConfigurationSettings>
    <animation name="abc" height="748" width="1320" prefix="/Users/chenglei/nuclear/im2video/example/img/">  // it could be local directory or remote URI
        <effect>
            <name>none</name>
            <from>1.jpg</from> // it could be an direct file like /tmp/1.jpg
            <to>1.jpg</to>
            <duration>1.2</duration>
        </effect>
        <effect>
            <name>fadescale</name>
            <from>2.jpg</from>
            <to>3.jpg</to>
            <duration>2</duration>
        </effect>
        <effect>
            <name>none</name>
            <from>3.jpg</from>
            <to>3.jpg</to>
            <duration>2</duration>
        </effect>
    </animation>
</ConfigurationSettings>

Error code:
0           Success
1XX         IO error
2XX         Memory error
3XX         Logic or data error
4XX         Others