I've seem to have found a nice combo of a free app and codec that does a nice job of stringing frames together into an actual video. Basically you save your image sequence to a folder (.jpg is fine, but you can try others), open up VirtualDub, then open the first frame of the sequence in it (it automatically gets the rest), then you set the frame rate (but when there, set the second part where it says "convert frames to" to 24 or 30), then set video to full processing, then set the compression to Xvid (default settings seem to be just fine, but you can force keyframes if you want - it helps for making the video "pause-able"), then save the video to .avi. And you can also add audio while you're at it. (But Vdub doesn't currently sequence audio afaik, it just grabs the track, so you may have to figure out something with audacity or another program.)

And to get the "widescreen" on YouTube, use 640 for width and 360 for height. (Or some variation with that aspect ratio.) I still have problems with them adding too much extra compression and fuzzing up my videos though. :glare: I'm guessing if you double the values, it may do a high quality version, but I haven't tried because I don't have a render farm or enough patience.

Oh yeah, some linkys...
www.virtualdub.org
www.xvid.org
audacity.sourceforge.net

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