plugin for compressed movies

[Knecht, David]

I am trying to install a plugin that will allow me to write tiff stacks to movies with H264 or MPEG4 codecs for compression. On my Mac, I get a choice of both after using the Fiji updater to add the FFMPEG plugin.  On the PC I get no choice of codec. Is that expected?  Is there another plugin that works?  Thanks- Dave

Dr. David Knecht
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Connecticut
91 N. Eagleville Rd.
U-3125
Storrs, CT 06269-3125




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[Herbie]

Greetings David,

perhaps not what you want but it works (at least on my Mac):

Save the TIF-stack as uncompressed AVI-file.
Convert the AVI-file in VLC media player to the format of your choice.

HTH

Herbie

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[Stein Rørvik]

I have found these plugins to work for H264 encoding directly from ImageJ on Windows:

https://forum.image.sc/t/plugins-for-reading-and-writing-compressed-video/8777
Update site: http://sites.imagej.net/Anotherche/

https://sites.google.com/site/qingzongtseng/save-as-movie
Update site: https://sites.imagej.net/FFMPEG-javacv/

I use classic ImageJ and just downloaded the plugins and their dependencies to subfolders under plugins, that worked fine. I have not tested the update sites in Fiji but assume they should work as well, as both plugins have been updated occasionally within the last couple of years.

The Anotherche is especially useful as it has an option to specify a custom codec as a string. I tried it with "h264_nvenc" for Nvidia hardware acceleration and it worked; it was 10-15 times faster but gave noticeable worse picture quality than the slow software-based "h264" encoder.

Stein

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Sent: 3. mars 2021 23:42
Subject: plugin for compressed movies

I am trying to install a plugin that will allow me to write tiff stacks to movies with H264 or MPEG4 codecs for compression. On my Mac, I get a choice of both after using the Fiji updater to add the FFMPEG plugin.  On the PC I get no choice of codec. Is that expected?  Is there another plugin that works?  Thanks- Dave

Dr. David Knecht
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of Connecticut
91 N. Eagleville Rd.
U-3125
Storrs, CT 06269-3125




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