Comments on: Rackspace Fanatiguy LEGO Mascot Sculpture http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/ Just another LR2 Blogs weblog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dana Jansen http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-702 Dana Jansen Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:56:01 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-702 This is why I am paying a premium for my dedicated services. HAHA this is also why I moved my servers to server intellect for better support. Keep building legos rackspace cuz that is fixing my server as we speak. This is why I am paying a premium for my dedicated services. HAHA this is also why I moved my servers to server intellect for better support. Keep building legos rackspace cuz that is fixing my server as we speak.

]]> By: Anton http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-701 Anton Tue, 01 May 2007 14:43:20 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-701 I used ImageMagick (mogrify) to crop the original images to 1920x1080 then I used mencoder to convert the images to an mpeg4. You can specfy an input source as mf://*JPG to indicate that you want multiple files to be read. More info can be seen here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html The command I used was something like: mencoder mf://IMG*.JPG -mf fps=8:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1024 -ffourcc XVID -o output.avi Once I had a nice quality xvid I used mencoder again to crop it to a 4:3 aspect and scale it down to a size that was practical to upload. I used ImageMagick (mogrify) to crop the original images to 1920×1080 then I used mencoder to convert the images to an mpeg4.

You can specfy an input source as mf://*JPG to indicate that you want multiple files to be read.

More info can be seen here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html

The command I used was something like:
mencoder mf://IMG*.JPG -mf fps=8:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1024 -ffourcc XVID -o output.avi

Once I had a nice quality xvid I used mencoder again to crop it to a 4:3 aspect and scale it down to a size that was practical to upload.

]]> By: Greg Lange http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-700 Greg Lange Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:56:21 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-700 What software did you use to stitch the photos together into a video? What software did you use to stitch the photos together into a video?

]]> By: Angie Thier http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-699 Angie Thier Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:17:56 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/2007/04/12/rackspace-fanatiguy-lego-mascot-sculpture/#comment-699 That is awesome, Anton!! I'm so impressed! It turned out great! That is awesome, Anton!! I’m so impressed! It turned out great!

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