EPS to AVI Converter

Turning EPS Artwork into an AVI Clip: What This Covers

EPS is a still page-description file and AVI is a video container, so this conversion is not a format swap — it rasterises your Encapsulated PostScript artwork and then encodes those pixels as a video clip that holds each image on screen for a set number of seconds. That is what you want for dropping a logo or a diagram into an old editing timeline, a kiosk playlist, or any tool that will only ingest video. This tutorial covers the controls that matter, the ones that deliberately do not appear, and the mistakes that produce a black or oddly-sized clip.

How to Convert EPS to AVI

1. Upload Your EPS Files: Drag them onto the page or click "+ Add Files". Order matters — uploaded order is the order they play.
2. Set the Image Duration and Merge Strategy: The "Duration" dropdown decides how long each image is held, preset to "5 seconds per frame" and adjustable from "1/60s (single frame at 60fps)" up to "10 seconds per frame". "Merge strategy" chooses between "Merge images", which produces one clip from every upload, and "Video per image", which produces one clip each.
3. Choose the Codec, Quality, and Canvas: Under "Show All Options", "Video Codec" is set to MPEG-4 for an AVI target. "File Compression" opens on "Quality Preset" at "Very High (Recommended)", with "Constant Quality" and "Constraint Quality" as the alternatives. "Video resolution" offers "Keep original", "Fixed Resolutions", "Preset Resolutions", and explicit Width / Height boxes, and "Background Color" — preset to White for image sources like EPS — sets the colour that fills any transparent area and any letterbox bars.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert and save the AVI. Files upload over an encrypted connection, are processed on our servers, and are deleted automatically after a few hours. No sign-up, no watermark.

Walk-through: Duration, Canvas, and Background

The three settings that actually change the result are Duration, the resolution mode, and Background Color. Everything else on the page is a refinement.

Duration is per image, not per clip. Multiply it by the number of files to get the runtime, and remember that a still-image source is encoded at a low fixed frame rate — there is no motion to sample, so a high frame rate would only inflate the file with identical frames.

The canvas comes from the resolution mode. "Keep original" uses the rasterised artwork's own pixel dimensions, which for an EPS means whatever its %%BoundingBox declares — the bounding box is measured in PostScript points and resolves at one point per pixel. "Fixed Resolutions" pins the output to a named frame size such as 1920 x 1080 and letterboxes the artwork inside it without cropping or stretching. Before encoding, each image is re-rendered to a clean PNG, clamped to 4096 pixels on its long edge, and rounded to even dimensions, because video encoders require it.

Background Color matters more here than on most pages. An EPS only paints what the PostScript draws, so anything the artwork leaves alone rasterises as transparent — and no video codec can store transparency. The "Background Color" dropdown opens on White — the default for image sources — and the colour it shows is what those transparent regions become; it is also the colour that fills the letterbox bars when the artwork does not match the output aspect ratio. Twenty-five named colours are offered, so a brand background is usually one pick away.

Which Video Codec to Choose

AVI predates B-frames, which is the classic source of trouble when a modern codec is dropped into it. That is not an issue here: B-frames are switched off for still-image sources anyway, since identical frames gain nothing from them and they only add a start-time offset.

Common Errors and How to Fix Them

• "The clip has no sound" — that is correct and unavoidable. A still image carries no audio, so no Audio Codec control appears on this page and the output is silent by design.
• "My transparent logo came out on a solid block" — expected. Video cannot store an alpha channel, so transparency is flattened to the Background Color. Set that colour to match wherever the clip will be placed.
• "The video is tiny — only a couple of hundred pixels wide" — the EPS %%BoundingBox was small. Switch the resolution mode to "Fixed Resolutions" or type an explicit Width, or re-export the EPS from your vector editor with a larger artboard.
• "There are coloured bars down the sides" — the artwork's aspect ratio does not match the chosen frame size, so it was letterboxed rather than cropped or stretched. Either pick a frame size that matches, or set Background Color to something that reads as intentional.
• "The clip is far longer than I expected" — Duration is per image. Six uploads at the preset five seconds is a thirty-second clip.

When This Doesn't Work

Some EPS files will not rasterise cleanly. Files that reference fonts by name without embedding them will substitute something else at render time, and text-heavy artwork can shift noticeably as a result — export with fonts converted to outlines if the layout has to be exact. Files saved as DCS separations, or EPS wrappers around a proprietary application format, may render only their low-resolution preview rather than the full artwork. If the render itself is the problem, test it in isolation first with EPS to PNG and fix the source before returning here. And if you need to build a sequence that mixes EPS with photographs or other image formats, use Image to Video, which accepts more than thirty image types in a single job.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my AVI have no audio track?

Because there is no audio to encode. A still image has no soundtrack, so the pipeline never opens an audio encoder for image sources — which is also why this page shows no Audio Codec control at all, unlike the video-source conversion pages. If you need music behind the clip, add it afterwards in a video editor.

How long will the finished video be?

Number of EPS files multiplied by the Duration setting. One file at the preset "5 seconds per frame" gives a five-second clip; twelve files at "1 second per frame" gives twelve seconds. Choosing "Video per image" under Merge strategy changes the arithmetic — you get one clip per file, each the length of the Duration setting.

What resolution will the clip be if I leave the settings alone?

The pixel size of the rasterised artwork, which for EPS comes from the %%BoundingBox comment interpreted at one PostScript point per pixel. A logo declared at 288 x 144 points becomes a 288 x 144 clip. That is often smaller than people expect, so if the clip has a fixed home — a 1080p timeline, a kiosk screen — set "Fixed Resolutions" explicitly rather than trusting the source.

Why are there no bitrate or target-file-size options here?

Because they cannot work reliably from a still-image source. Bitrate and size targeting are computed from the source's own duration and data rate, and a still image has neither. The page therefore offers the quality-driven modes only: "Quality Preset", "Constant Quality", and "Constraint Quality". On a video-source page such as DVR to WMV the bitrate and file-size modes do appear.

What happens to the transparent parts of my EPS?

They are filled with whatever the "Background Color" dropdown is set to — White unless you change it. EPS artwork only covers the area the PostScript actually paints, so the rest rasterises as transparent pixels — and since no video codec can carry an alpha channel, that transparency has to become a solid colour somewhere. The same colour is used for letterbox bars. If you need to keep real transparency, target an image format instead: EPS to APNG preserves an 8-bit alpha channel.

Should I leave the codec on MPEG-4?

For an AVI, yes, in almost every case. MPEG-4 Part 2 is what AVI-era players expect and what the container was designed around, and flat vector artwork compresses extremely well with it. Reach for HuffYUV only if the clip is an intermediate that will be re-encoded later, and reach for H.264 only if you know the player is modern — at which point a modern container is the better answer anyway.

Can I mix EPS files with photos or other images in one video?

Not on this page — it accepts .eps only. Use Image to Video instead, which takes EPS alongside PNG, JPG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, PSD, and camera raw files in the same job and exposes the same duration, merge, and background controls.

Is AVI still a sensible container to target?

It is if something in your chain requires it. AVI is a RIFF-based format Microsoft released on 10 November 1992 as part of Video for Windows, and the US National Archives designated it a preservation wrapper in 2010, so it is far from dead. It is also genuinely limited — no standardised aspect-ratio metadata, no embedded subtitles or fonts, and awkward handling of anything that needs future-frame references. For general distribution, EPS to MP4 produces a smaller file that plays in far more places.