Exporting movies

There are a number of ways to export movies. My favorite way is to save them as uncompressed AVI (using ImageJ’s >File>Save As>AVI… command) and then encode this temporary video file using a proper video encoding software such as FFmpeg. The command line that I am using is one of the following two versions

ffmpeg.exe -i input.avi -vcodec wmv2 -qscale:v 1 -f asf output.avi
ffmpeg.exe –i input.avi –vcodec mpeg4 –qscale:v 1 output.mp4

The first line seems to work also for older versions of PowerPoint.

For Microsoft Windows, there exists also a nice GUI frontend for FFmpeg, ffe.