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FFMPEG Command to Create MP4 Video or Slideshow From Multiple Images in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
ffmpeg -framerate 1/3 -i image%d.png -vf "scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2" -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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create MP4 video or slideshow from
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multiple images inside ffmppg right in
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the terminal
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itself So you can see we have a series
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of images uh PNG images if you see in my
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directory So image one image 2 image
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three image four image five image 6
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image 7 image 8 So eight images are
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there So you just need to make sure that
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you rename all the images in this format
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which is image one image two image three
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So now I will show you how
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to execute this command which is a very
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simple command which will actually
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convert all these images into a
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slideshow where each image will appear
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for a certain amount of time or 3
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seconds namely and uh I have given this
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command in the description of this video
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So it's a simple f ofmppg
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command So if I execute this command
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here you will see f ofmppg frame rate 1
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by3 So it each image will appear for 3
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seconds And here we are providing this
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pattern right here image and this is
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your dynamic variable So 1 2 3 4 5 This
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is your PNG images And there you we are
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just applying this video filter We are
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scaling this images into a fixed width
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and height And we are maintaining the
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aspect ratio And after that you can see
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this is a little bit complex command And
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then we are encoding the video using
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this encoder lib
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x264 And this is your output file So now
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what happens as I press the enter key
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you will
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see this command will execute for each
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image And now this output file has been
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created This is your output video file
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If I try
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to just see the output file you will see
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each image will appear for 3 seconds and
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after that the next image will come You
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will see it actually this is actually a
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slideshow video which is made from a
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series of multiple PNG images So you can
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easily do this with any sort of image It
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can be JPG PNG image You can see the
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slideshow Each image is appear appearing
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for 3 seconds So this is actually the
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fMPPG command here You can easily create
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a video from a series of images And uh
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now we can even modify this command
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right
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here
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So let me just show you So what we can
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do we can change how much time it
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appears each image appears So we can
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change this 1x3 So you just need to
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change if you want each image to appear
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for 5 seconds So you will change it from
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1x3 to 1x 5 So now what happens each
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image will appear for 5 seconds and then
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it will create this video file for you
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So it's a slideshow file So now what
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happens if you see each image is
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appearing for 5 seconds So now the total
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length of the video is 40 seconds
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because eight images are there So 5 by 8
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is 40 So you will see each image is
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appearing for 5 seconds So this is
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actual FMPG command guys uh the link uh
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I've given the command in the
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description of the video and also check
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out my website
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freemediattools.com which contains
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thousands of tools regarding audio video
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