Background Image Script?

 From:  FDP
6162.26 In reply to 6162.25 
I thought this might be helpful to others - the method I use for getting image sequences out of stacks that are in video format is by using ffmpeg. On Windows the command line parameters are slightly different than linux/OsX, the following example will work if all you want are low-quality jpegs:

ffmpeg -i "Input_Filename.mp4" -f image2 Output_Filename%%5d.jpg

The "%%5d" part is telling ffmpeg to pad the output frame counter to 5 digits, which will make the results compatible with Michael's "IncrementImage" script.

You can use different filetypes, e.g. .mov or .avi for the input file type and .png, etc for the output file type.

Windows builds of ffmpeg can be found here: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

The precompiled ffmpeg application is found in the bin folder

Incidentally on Linux/OsX the following should be an equivalent command:

ffmpeg -i "Input_Filename.mp4" -f image2 Output_Filename%5d.jpg

-FDP