# Assemble many images files into one .mpeg or .mov

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assemble-many-images-files-into-one-mpeg-or-mov/147917>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assemble-many-images-files-into-one-mpeg-or-mov/147917 "2008-09-07T00:13:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chillexistence)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assemble-many-images-files-into-one-mpeg-or-mov/147917/1 "2008-09-07T00:13:02Z")

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I’m looking to use something like:

[http://gd2.rubyforge.org/](http://gd2.rubyforge.org/)

to generate several 100 images, and then run some other ruby program to  
combine the images into a video file (mpeg or mov or any standard  
format.)

Is there a ruby library for this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chillexistence)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assemble-many-images-files-into-one-mpeg-or-mov/147917/2 "2008-09-07T15:32:07Z")

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Andrew A. wrote:

> Thanks.  
> Check out RMagick for generating the images. You can also RMagick to  
> assemble short sequences into a video (AVI or MPEG) but for longer  
> sequences you’ll probably be better off using another program such as  
> ffmpeg, mpeg2enc, or mmencode to assemble the individual images into  
> video format.

Here’s the word on ImageMagick’s support for movies:  
[Common Formats -- IM v6 Examples](http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#mpeg).

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**Author:** ![chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chillexistence)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assemble-many-images-files-into-one-mpeg-or-mov/147917/3 "2008-09-07T15:55:05Z")

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Thanks, I started using ffmpeg and it couldn’t have been easier.

if you have seq1.png, seq2.png, seq3.png, etc. run

ffmpeg -i seq%d.png test.mov

and it works perfectly.

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**Author:** ![chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chillexistence](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chillexistence)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assemble-many-images-files-into-one-mpeg-or-mov/147917/4 "2008-09-07T16:15:27Z")

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Andrew A. wrote:

> Thanks, I started using ffmpeg and it couldn’t have been easier.
> 
> if you have seq1.png, seq2.png, seq3.png, etc. run
> 
> ffmpeg -i seq%d.png test.mov
> 
> and it works perfectly.

Wonderful! The right tool for the job.