MPP - A preprocessor tool for creating MPEG and other movie streams

MPP stands for Movie PreProcessor. It prepares a set of images for inclusion into a movie. Mpp was written to allow the processing of heterogeneous material (e.g. images with different sizes and file formats, text pages in yet another format) into a homogeneous set of frame files. It is also does some basic title generation. Mpp does the following processing of images:

Convert images from different formats into a single common format. The recognition of many image formats is automatic.
Scale images of different sizes to a single common size with several possible methods.
Create empty frames of any color.
Paste text into frames - thereby creating titles and more.
Paste other images into frames. The paste can be masked, so that you may create titles with any text processing or drawing program and paste them into frames.
Multiplicate a single frame (with links -> no extra disk space required) in order to have it incorporated several times in a movie (still frames and/or slow-motion effects).

MPP is written in Perl and requires version 5.003 or higher. It also used Jef Poskanzers pbmplus library and the mpeg_encode program available from the University of Berkeley. You can have a look at the MPP man page or grab the complete MPP program (which contains the man page in POD format).