Overview of the Plan
Here is an outline of the steps for creating a computer-generated video.
- Write C++ code that produces an image into an array in memory. I will use a simple Mandelbrot Set image generator, but again, this can be anything you want.
- Use the open source library LodePNG to save that image to a PNG file on disk.
- The code repeats the first two steps hundreds of times, generating one video frame at a time. Each PNG output file holds a single still frame image for your movie.
- On Windows or Linux, use ffmpeg to convert the series of PNG images to an MP4 video format file.
