Timelapse software for Linux

Question

I was looking for software to create timelapse from a collection of pictures, that is compatible with Ubuntu. It would good if it could make HD videos and also has an option to add a background score.

Answer 1

Ffmpeg will do it. If you have images img001.jpg, img002.jpg, img003.jpg, ... then on the command line do:

ffmpeg -i img*.jpg output.mpeg

There are more options given in ffmpeg --help or man pages, or the web. These allow control over the frame rate and the output format.

Answer 2

You can do this with either mencoder or avidemux. There's a tutorial fr avidemux here: http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=tutorial:create_video_from_still_image_and_from_audio_file