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

Posted by Kurt Thorn on Sep 16, 2014; 4:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Image-sequence-to-video-conversion-high-compression-software-recommendations-tp5009641p5009650.html

I have had pretty good luck saving uncompressed AVI movies and then
converting them to h264 video using Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/).  
I can't speak to codec details, but I've been pretty happy with this to
generate small movies that still look good.

Kurt

On 9/16/2014 6:01 AM, Guenter Giese wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
>
> Image sequence to video conversion (high compression): which software
> / codec do you recommend for preservation of small structures (cells,
> axons, dendrites)?
>
> Exact color rendition is not that critical (two-channel fluorescence
> images, plus labels in different colors).
>
> Freeware is preferred, or are there big advantages of commercial
> solutions?
>
> Thank you for recommendations!
>
> Guenter
>
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