Re: How can I make a movie or animation?

[Matthias Rampke <matthias@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Donnerstag, 8. September 2011 at 06:38, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Is 
> this the right tool, or should I try something else?

I don't know about mencoder, but ffmpeg can definitely do what you want:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FFMPEG_An_Intermediate_Guide/image_sequence#Making_a_video_from_an_Image_Sequence

basically it's ffmpeg -f image2 -i <file name format string> <output options> <output filename>

--matthiasr