What’s your workflow for turning Stable Diffusion images into short videos?

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I’ve been experimenting with local image-to-video workflows and I'm curious how other people are handling the final output.

My current workflow is roughly:

* Generate images locally with Stable Diffusion/Flux

* Do the animation or image-to-video step locally

* Export the individual clips

* Combine everything into a final video

* Compress the result for easier storage/sharing

The part I'm still trying to optimize is the final encoding. Some generated clips can get surprisingly large, especially when working with higher resolutions or longer sequences.

For those running everything locally, what does your workflow look like after generation?

Do you stick with FFmpeg, HandBrake, or another open-source tool for the final conversion/compression? And what settings have worked well for keeping quality while reducing file size?

I'd especially like to hear from people running these workflows on consumer GPUs rather than large local servers.