Hello I've been looking about 2 weeks now on and off to find a software that will let me convert a tiff sequence of images to avi, or quicktime. It could be a command line It could be a compositing software If could be a editing software. I need help

MPlayer will do what you want, at least for JPEGs. I'm not sure about .tiff support. Make sure the mplayer configure script builds mencoder. I'm not not sure if it would by default. Here's what I found in the man page as an example command: Encoding all *.jpg files in the current dir mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc divx4

Well it doesn't seem to work mencoder /data/bob.*.tif -mf fps=30 -o /data/output.avi -ovc divx4 This is what I get MEncoder 0.91-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' Reading config file /root/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x5A345 MPEG-ES file format detected. MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searchiMEncoder 0.91-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' Reading config file /root/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x5A345 MPEG-ES file format detected. MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header. Video: Cannot read properties. Exiting... ng for sequence header. Video: Cannot read properties. Exiting...

See if imagemagick helps. It can at least convert the TIFFs to PNGs, JPEGs, or some other convenient format. MPlayer should be able to make a video, but when I tried it, I got segfaults with both PNG and JPEG input. You might need to look for something that can turn images into even simple video like MPEG-1, then use MPlayer to encode the video as divx. In theory, just about any image to video program would work because imagemagick can turn TIFFs into just about any format, and MPlayer should be able to turn any format it can play (WMV, MPEG, Quicktime, etc.) into divx.