Re: Image sequence to video conversion (high compression): software recommendations?

Posted by dscho on Sep 16, 2014; 2:17pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image-sequence-to-video-conversion-high-compression-software-recommendations-tp5009641p5009645.html

Hi Guenter,

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Guenter Giese wrote:

> I want to generate movies for publication from neuronal structures
> recordings (TIFF image sequences 8bit greyscale, 24bit RGB). My image
> sequences are rather large up to GB), and movie size for publication is
> confined to 10 MB.

The best way is to get down and dirty and write a little program, e.g.
using JavaCV: https://github.com/bytedeco/javacv. It is really the only
option if you want as much control as possible.

I added a very simple Beanshell snippet to

        http://imagej.net/Scripting_toolbox#Writing_out_movie_files_with_JavaCV

to give you a head start.

> Image sequence to video conversion (high compression): which software /
> codec do you recommend for preservation of small structures (cells,
> axons, dendrites)?

This, in particular, is a hard problem. You will have to experiment with
the parameters quite a bit. At least you have the option to let the
computer do the optimization, now that you have a script to write out the
movie.

Ciao,
Johannes

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