Anyway to quickly convert pictures into short video clips?

[thetered]

I have a TV up at a bar I work at that shows videos and what not hooked up to a computer. I'd like to insert pictures in the mix also, but it seems to work best if I can convert them to a video format and just throw them in the queue with the other videos.

I can convert them using some programs like virtualdub, etc... and slowly convert them to video, and that would take me ages to do each one. I dont know if what I'm looking for exists, but I'd like to find some program that I can load up and just have it batch do a directory of pictures, or something like that.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Brazil2]

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20video%20slideshow%20from%20images

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Video-and-Audio-file-format-conversion

[wonkey_monkey]

I can convert them using some programs like virtualdub, etc... and slowly convert them to video

How long is each clip, how many clips, and which codec are you using?

[raffriff42]

If you want still images thrown into a video playlist, wrap each image file with an Avisynth scriptlet such as this: ImageSource("cutepic.jpg")
Trim(0, Round(Framerate*3)) /* 3 second duration */
FadeIO2(15) /* fade in & out */ ...and then add the script to your (AVS-compatible) media player's queue along with the videos. There's no audio of course; I don't know how you want to deal with that. This works best if the videos are soundless too, say if you always have a jukebox going.

You can make AVS scripts from images by dragging the image files onto this batch file: @echo #avisynth > "%~dpn1-avs.avs"
@echo ImageSource("%~dpnx1") >> "%~dpn1-avs.avs"
@echo Trim(0, Round(Framerate*3)) /* 3 second duration */ >> "%~dpn1-avs.avs"
@echo FadeIO2(15) /* fade in & out */ >> "%~dpn1-avs.avs"