ImageMagick: create a video color bars image

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ImageMagick: create a video color bars image

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I wanted to create color bars, commonly known in test videos. I know that it's proabably not SMPTE conform, but fair enough.

In order to spare myself some time, I figured out how to generate a full color bar image with ImageMagick. It's amazingly efficient and simple:

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convert -size 92x154 xc:#cccccc xc:#ffff00 xc:#00ffff xc:#00ff00 xc:#ff00ff xc:#ff0000 xc:#0000ff +append color_bars.png
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