FFMPEG

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Use: Converting non-FIJI-Happy Video Formats to PNGs for import

Installation

http://ffmpeg.org/download.html
Choose your Platform

Shortcuts for last stable build on 2022 01 27:
Windows: https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-release-full.7z
Mac: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-5.0.7z

Unzip into a folder

Use

1. Locate the folder where you unzipped ffmpeg
2. Copy the video you want to convert into that folder, example here will be called "test video.mov"
3. Create an output folder in the same folder
4. Start Terminal and navigate to the folder where you unzipped it.
5. Type the following (this should be in mac, for windows, change the separators)

/bin/ffmpeg -i "test video.mov" output\test_video%3d.png

Explanation

-i denotes the input file, which is provided right after
output\test_video%3d.tif is the name of the output file, the %3d means that we want the number of the frame there, with three times zero padding (000, 001, 002, ...)

1. 1. Open in FIJI
2. Drag and drop the output folder into FIJI to import all the frames as a stack.
3. Save the open file as a tif for convenient reopening.
4. Delete the contents of the 'output` folder