From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 25 09:05:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049DA106564A for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8878D8FC13 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-27-202.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.27.202]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF53716C00D6; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:05:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n3P956G5001510; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:05:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:05:06 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Andrew Gould Message-Id: <20090425110506.8e1e8654.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <1240414705.73519.12.camel@pukruppa.net> <20090423213624.GA27972@thought.org> <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090424201644.GA69617@thought.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:34:25 +0000 Cc: Gary Kline , Polytropon , Ulrich Kruppa , Peter, FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:05:21 -0000 On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:45 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > I've never done video editing on FreeBSD; but on a Mac, you can create a > movie using slides and a sound file (wav, mp3, etc). You would need an > application that could import images and sound, and let you sync the two by > assigning the order and duration of each slide. It would then have to spit > out a movie file, of course. > > Any video editing (on FreeBSD) knowledge out there? No knowledge, but idea: As you know, mencoder can do everything. So it should be possible to create something like a strain of image files (like "animated GIF") and put it together with a sound file then. This could be done for smaller pieces first (one slide + text speech), and then the slides could be concatenated to create the whole video file. The file format should be a standardized and free format in first position, and for those who cannot ("Windows") or are not allowed to (?) use them, formats like MPEG and AVI could be added. if mencoder can't do the thing with the images, maybe it's worth taking a look at ImageMagick and its convert command. > Another option is a python script that uses vnc to create a shockwave flash > file from your actions on your desktop: > http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ > > The script is able to import a sound file that you record while you create > the demo. Interesting idea, but I would suggest to avoid "Flash" whenever possible. But to continue this idea: If the output is a simple .flv file, it could be turned into something standardized using mencoder again. I've used youtube-dl and mencoder to do so - but only three times! I swear it's true! :-) (After "Flash" annoyed me so much on web pages, I decided to relapse my system into a "Flash"-free state. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...