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Combine images into a strip



In this first tutorial, we will see how to assemble images into a strip, using the command line tool ffmpeg, a powerful tool for manipulating videos, images and audio.

Here is a video describing the process :

There are several ways to install ffmpeg, depending on your operating system.

Here’s a useful link for installing it on main operating systems :

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide

More info about ffmpeg at https://ffmpeg.org.

Operating system used in this tutorial : MacOS Catalina.

Here is one easy way to install ffmpeg on macOS :

Open the Terminal application, and type the following command :

brew install ffmpeg

– Sample command to create a horizontal strip :

(important : The images must have the same height *)

ffmpeg -i 004.png -i 001.png -i 003.png -i 002.png -filter_complex hstack=inputs=4 output.png

(The ‘inputs’ variable corresponds to the number of images)

– Sample command to create a vertical strip :

(important : The images must have the same width **)

ffmpeg -i 004.png -i 001.png -i 003.png -i 002.png -filter_complex vstack=inputs=4 output.png

(The ‘inputs’ variable corresponds to the number of images)

* Sample command to change the height of an image to 400 pixels while preserving its aspect ratio :

ffmpeg -i 001.jpg -vf "scale=-1:400" output_resized_height.jpg

** Sample command to change the width of an image to 400 pixels while preserving its aspect ratio :

ffmpeg -i 001.jpg -vf "scale=400:-1" output_resized_width.jpg

Enjoy !

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