Morph tool, create filler frames of original images

[Cookizza]

Hey all, I'm hoping to get some help on a script we've put together to process a handful of images into a video.

We are using the -morph command to generate transition images from a handful of base frames and it's working a treat. However we now want it to also duplicate the original frames so the video we create with ffmpeg 'holds' on the main images before running the next transition. I've pasted our command below and any insight on how I'd get IM to do this would be amazing.

It may be worth mentioning we're running this from PHP exec

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convert -quality 100 temp/production/images/raw/uid.*.png -delay 2 -morph 12 temp/production/images/processed/uid.%05d.png

Also like to say thanks to this community, I've ended up in various threads finding solutions while we've been developing this app and it's been invaluable. Hopefully I can give back when my IM knowledge is a bit better.

Cheers

[snibgo]

I'm not sure what you are asking. If you want to "freeze" a frame, you can just make a load of copies with appropriate sequence numbers. (I do it with links -- much quicker than physical copies, and takes less disk space.)

[Cookizza]

Hey thanks for the quick reply. Yes that's what I want to achieve. However the images are prenumbered and are sequentially read by ffmpeg - I don't really want to have to loop over and rename all the images, is there a way to do this without ruining the filename structure? That's why I was hoping to be able to have it part of the above convert command, as it's output sequentially numbers the files.

Cheers!

[fmw42]

I am not sure I fully understand but versions v6.6.8-7 or higher of IM you can use -duplicate X to repeat frames in a command line. See
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... #duplicate
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#duplicate