After writing this earlier post about vertigo and cinema redux, I wondered how to make this kind of pictures easily.
http://www.paslongtemps.net/blog/post/2008/07/08/vertigo-redux
http://www.brendandawes.com/sketches/redux/
http://www.threewordtitle.com/thumber/
You’ll need 2 pieces of software:
ffmpeg, open source audio and video codec
homepage: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
download: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html
montage, part of the ImageMagick software suite
homepage: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
download: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php
let’s say the movie you want to process is called movie.avi
> ffmpeg -i movie.avi -r 1 -s 8x6 -f image2 frame.%05d.png
> montage frame*.png -tile 60 -geometry 8x6+0+0 -background black redux.png
there you go! right here on the command line! depending on your operating system you will probably have to adapt a little bit. I did it successfully in Windows/Cygwin.
These 2 pictures below are from Kieslowski’s Décalogue.
http://www.paslongtemps.net/blog/post/2008/04/01/876-le-decalogue-de-kieslowski-en-100-mots
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kieślowski
Décalogue 1: Un seul Dieu du adoreras
Décalogue 5: Tu ne tueras point
