Hi All,
I’m looking for a commandline image editing tool, to do cropping, outputting to avi’s and tga/tiff streams. I have already used virtualdub, but the biggest problem is it can’t read tif files, and I can’t get around the tif files. VirtualDub is really all I need if I good get it to support tif. Are there any other tools out there that can be used with the commandline and do image editing and saving?
It would be great if the package carried it’s own codec’s instead of the systems codecs.
I was also looking into imagemagick, but does it support imagesequences, all the examples I find are on single images or 2 combined. I’m also looking into ffmpeg, which seems too have lots of options too. I really liked vdub, since you could make a preset script and feed it the necessary options through the commandline and you don’t have to worry about the rest.
I will look into it further and post my findings here, more suggestions/examples are greatly appreciated!
[QUOTE=JHN;2374]I was also looking into imagemagick, but does it support imagesequences, all the examples I find are on single images or 2 combined. I’m also looking into ffmpeg, which seems too have lots of options too. I really liked vdub, since you could make a preset script and feed it the necessary options through the commandline and you don’t have to worry about the rest.
I will look into it further and post my findings here, more suggestions/examples are greatly appreciated!
-Johan[/QUOTE]
Imagemagick does support multiple images in at least some form. You can use it to make batch files and so on using wildcards. I was looking at it to make filmstrips out of multiple frames in a directory. I kind of got it working with some help. You should be able to crop and save all the frames in a directory I think, but I don’t know much about the commands I’m afraid.
I went to a maxscript solution ultimately because it suits me more. Not too keen on command lines.
Yeah, I find it frustrating all these commandline tools, which can output to every known format in the universe but can’t take tiff sequence as input. I’m investigating fusion now as a commandline tool for my needs.
I’m personally still using the VERY old Image Alchemy for a lot of stuff since it’s very “easy” to use and I’ve used it over 10 years…
ImageMagik never worked intuitively for me, I could never get it to for example comp alpha channels properly etc. I just didn’t get how the software worked.
A more modern command line converter might be Image Converter Plus from fCoder Group (www.fcoder.com). I had a look at the demo a while back and it seemed pretty powerful (and easy to use syntax wise). It has a command line version, a GUI version and shell integration.
[QUOTE=kojala;2382]too bad Ive been trying to find a commandline conversion program from 32bit tiff to 32bit openExr.[/QUOTE]
Have you tried 3dsmax? (/me ducks…)
Have you ever succeed in converting tga sequence (32 bit/ with alpha) into quicktime or avi using ffmpeg, Mencoder or any other free, command-line utility ?
Another option would be to use AVISynth together with virtualdub (create an avs script and use it as the input for virtualdub). I’m not sure if avisynth supports 32bit-per-channel images though.
Yet another option is to use the converter tool in DJV, thought it doesn’t have cropping options. I also don’t think it supports avi’s. It used to have quicktime support, but I’m not sure if this is still the case in the latest version.