This is mostly sourced from the url here:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24961127/how-to-create-a-video-from-images-with-ffmpeg

Which I then put into this gist. And now this post.

Create mp4 from Images

-pattern_type glob

This great option makes it easier to select the images in many cases.

Normal speed video with one image per frame at 30 FPS

create mp4 from pictures in a directory: ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' \ -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

same but add audio to it:

ffmpeg -framerate 30 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' \
-i audio.ogg -c:a copy -shortest -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

Slideshow video with one image per second

ffmpeg -framerate 1 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' \
  -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

Be a hippie and use the Theora patent-unencumbered video format in an OGG container:

ffmpeg -framerate 1 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -i audio.ogg \
  -c:a copy -shortest -c:v libtheora -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.ogv

Your images should of course be sorted alphabetically, typically as:

0001-first-thing.jpg
0002-second-thing.jpg
0003-and-third.jpg