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I trying to create a video from a landscape image that moves from left to right of the image.

One form that I thought I can get this done is firstly generating N cropped images from the original one, each of them cropped more and more to the right and then apply some command like this one:

ffmpeg -framerate 1/X -i img%d.png -r 25 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

This for sure works but is not the quickest and cleaning form to do it. Are there a better method to accomplish this?

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You can just use the crop filter.

ffmpeg -loop 1 -t 10 -i img.png
       -vf "crop=w=W:h=ih:x='(iw-W)*t/10':y=0"
       -r 25 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

The crop filter crops the image to Wxih pixels where ih is the original height. You should substitute W with your target width in pixels. The position of the top-left corner of the crop window is set by the x and y expressions.

Since you only want to move left-to-right, y is set to a fixed 0. For x, the expression (iw-W)*t/10 governs the horizontal position of the crop window. t is the processed frame's timestamp in fractional seconds. W is substituted with the target width. iw is the input width. The crop will start from the left edge and end at the right edge at t = 10 seconds.


For an image sequence of 10 seconds, use

ffmpeg -i img%d.png
       -vf "crop=w=W:h=ih:x='(iw-W)*t/10':y=0"
       -r 25 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4
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  • Looks good, the produced video thumbnail looks correct but the duration of the video is near 0. I tried to add :d=10 to the expresion and add -t to the general command and doesn't works. Current command ffmpeg -y -framerate 1/10 -i test.jpg -vf "crop=w=1080:h=ih:x='(iw-1080)*t/10' :y=0" -r 25 -pix_fmt yuv420p outpanoramic.mp4
    – Aracem
    May 10, 2018 at 13:33
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    The command in your Q implies an image sequence img%d.png but you're applying to a single image. I'll modify my command for this case.
    – Gyan
    May 10, 2018 at 13:39
  • Perfect! It works now. Thank you very much! I suggest you edit your answer to include both solutions, for one and for several images, perhaps someone find it useful
    – Aracem
    May 10, 2018 at 14:23
  • @Gyan what if I already made some changes to the video stream in filter_complex and named it [trimmed], how would I make a long input image to overlay from bottom to top and be able to set its speed? Jul 31, 2019 at 21:39
  • Post a new Q with your full command.
    – Gyan
    Aug 1, 2019 at 4:45

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