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(This probably goes in the post production area, but I figured I'd put it here since there have been no posts there for two years)

Hello all!

Time for me to finally get up and stop lurking. I have a question: how do you compile the animation output of mandelbulber into a coherent video format? I've tried using stop-motion software, but trying to import multiple thousands of pictures at once just seems to overload it, when it starts showing 2.5Gb of ram in use and climbing 2 hrs later. Is there a better way? I am running on a mac if that makes any difference.

Also great program, keep up the good work!

I do run bootcamp, but I'd rather not be moving multiple GB of data around between partitions if I could help it. I don't think you can just drag and drop files from osx to a bootcamp drive, so I'd need to find some external storage device to move them through, and all that copying back and fourth takes time.

Aha! I found a solution!
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=510767
the applescript in post #4 in this thread works for me. Although nominally it should be able to handle 1000 frames at a time, it throws an error for somewhere between 100-500 (haven't tested the full range). I'll just stitch the .mov files together. I did this once before, but that was years ago, and I had forgotten how I did it... :

how about ffmpeg ?
that would be my FIRST choice
fallowed by Blender ( i use blender a lot so...)