# SVG to RGB: How to save a series of svg images to video?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/svg-to-rgb-how-to-save-a-series-of-svg-images-to-video/85309
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** images, video
**Created:** [August 4, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/svg-to-rgb-how-to-save-a-series-of-svg-images-to-video/85309 "2022-08-04T17:39:48Z")
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My code generates a series of svg images as text. Now I want to save them as an animated video.
Here is a MWE.
```julia
svgtxt =
"""
"""
display("image/svg+xml", svgtxt)
```
Now I want to save this svg to a video as frames. (Based on [this post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-a-video-from-a-stack-of-images/646/6).)
(In reality I will have a yielding function that will keep returning different svgs at each call.)
```julia
open(`ffmpeg -loglevel warning -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s:v 1200x1200 -r 30 -i pipe:0 -vf "transpose=0" -pix_fmt yuv420p test.mp4`, "w") do out
for i = 1:300
write(out, svgtxt) # How to change svgtxt to a valid RGB buffer?
end
end
```
gives
```julia
pipe:0: corrupt input packet in stream 0
[rawvideo @ 0x55d5ac91e040] Invalid buffer size, packet size 115200 < expected frame_size 4320000
Error while decoding stream #0:0: Invalid argument
failed process: Process(`ffmpeg -loglevel warning -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s:v 1200x1200 -r 30 -i pipe:0 -vf transpose=0 -pix_fmt yuv420p test.mp4`, ProcessExited(69)) [69]
```
---
Either [Ffmpeg support for svg rasterization - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48216871/ffmpeg-support-for-svg-rasterization) or rasterize the SVGs before sending to ffmpeg. Something like [How to convert an svg file to png with fixed pixel size/resolution](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-an-svg-file-to-png-with-fixed-pixel-size-resolution/33561)
---
As a workaround, you could use Luxor to build an animation from SVG images like this:
```julia
using Luxor
function make_an_svg()
cols = ["#389826", "#cb3c33", "#9558b2"]
return """
"""
end
function frame(scene, framenumber)
background("black")
placeimage(readsvg(make_an_svg()), O, centered=true)
end
movie = Movie(400, 400, "svg movie")
animate(movie, [Scene(movie, frame, 1:20)],
framerate=4, creategif=true)
```
which generates a frame for each SVG string returned by `make_an_svg()`.
