# Converting a series of jpegs into an mpeg movie?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 3, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/converting-a-series-of-jpegs-into-an-mpeg-movie/126810 "2002-09-03T14:47:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/converting-a-series-of-jpegs-into-an-mpeg-movie/126810/1 "2002-09-03T14:47:59Z")

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Is it possible to turn a series of jpeg-type pictures into a movie? Essentially, what I’m doing is really bad stop motion animation. I took a series of pictures with my digital camera and, using ACDSee’s slide show option (set at 30 milliseconds between pictures), made a humorous-to-me micro movie. I would like to be able to make either mpeg or wmv files so that I could annoy my friends with this nonsense. I am by no means Ray Harryhausen and don’t need an expensive program for something I’m liable to get bored with in a few months.

Suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/converting-a-series-of-jpegs-into-an-mpeg-movie/126810/2 "2002-09-03T14:58:22Z")

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Yes, but you should use a video editing package like Adobe Premiere, though basic video editing software is sometimes available as shareware. Import the jpegs as stills and set them each for 1 frame, or 1/30th (or 1/24th or 1/15th, whatever) of a second. Then save as MPEG. Easy.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/converting-a-series-of-jpegs-into-an-mpeg-movie/126810/3 "2002-09-03T15:00:11Z")

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Incidentally, you can e-mail them to me (my hotmail account is in my profile, ask me for the “real” one through e-mail) and I’ll send an MPEG back to you.