It's amazing what shell tools can do: Flickr accepts HD video (720p, or max 1280×720) up to 30 FPS, so I tried to create one within those limits from the high resolution photos from today's sunrise. Turns out to be incredibly easy with free tools on Linux:

  1. Resize to 720 pixels height (if your images are still wider than 1280 you'll have to replace x720 with 1280 (without the "x"): mogrify -resize x720 *
  2. Find the width of the images, and plug that into the following command instead of 1080.
  3. Create the video: mencoder mf://* -mf w=1080:h=720:fps=30:type=jpg -ovc copy -oac copy -o output.avi

The result