[Tfug] still photos in a video project

[Linux Media]

Matthew Patenaude wrote:
> Hey guys!
> 
> I made a DVD a while back on a friend's mac, using iMovie. It was easy 
> to use, and I took a whole stock of photos and stuck them together, 
> mostly using Ken Burn effects to give it a video like feel. I would like 
> to do this in Linux (not only because I can't afford to buy a Mac). I 
> have figured out Kino and used it with some video footage from my DV 
> Camera. Works great, but lacks some of the features I would like. For 
> example, can't use still photos, or at least I can't figure out how to 
> get them into the program.
> 
> Neither can PiTiVi, or Open Movie editor...
> 
> Anybody know if Cinerella does what I am looking for? I also want 
> multiple sound track options at least (which I notice several of the 
> already mentioned will do, most notably, Cineralla). Cineralla looks 
> like a good program; I just installed it. It does look like a steep 
> learning curve, and looks very capable, but I don't see anything that 
> suggests it can incorporate stills and do Ken Burns. Anyone know for sure?
 > Maybe there is another way to do what I am looking for, and just
 > haven't noticed or come across it yet...
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Matthew

I definitely added still photos to a Cinereralla project. I also zoomed 
them in/out, panned and all kinds of effects. I would walk you through 
the process, but I haven't used it in a while and it's on one of my 
"Live CDs" so I can't get to it right now and have to leave soon.

Cineralla is not very intuitive or easy to use, but it's very good.

Do you happen to use "Jack" (Audio Sound Server used to synchronize and 
share audio among "jack aware programs")? If you do there's a program 
called "xjadeo" that lets you synchronize to the "jack transport" so you 
can use "Jack Aware" Sequencers, Audio Recorders (and the like) so they 
all sync up and you can add audio tracks with precision (and high quality).

If you really want to get serious about recording good sound with your 
videos, I would really encourage you to get an "Audio Distribution". The 
one I use is "Planet CCRMA". You install Fedora (currently Fedora 10).
--> http://fedoraproject.org/
Once Fedora is installed, you follow the step by step instructions on 
the Planet CCRMA page.
--> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

Plant CCRMA will download a modified Fedora 10 Kernel. It's patched for 
low latency recording (latency refers to the amount of time it takes for 
you to speak into the mic... go through the hardware... through the 
software... and then out your headphones/speakers). It's also patched to 
allow for "realtime priorities". This has to do with having priorities 
over the interrupts so that no other program can causes glitches when 
you're recording.

There's other things it does also.. like uses rtirq to give the sound 
card of your choice priorities over others for smooth, uninterrupted 
recording.

Fedora/CCRMA uses repositories so you just do simple "yum" commands to 
install audio programs you want to use.

Fedora/CCRMA is great, but it's a learning curve. I don't mean the 
installation, because every thing's configured for you. But rather 
learning new audio programs.

I don't think Cineralla is included in the Fedora or CCRMA repos. If 
not, you would probably have to compile it yourself. However, there are 
distributions much like CCRMA that are also for video, but I'm not 
familiar with them.

Hope that helped,
Rocco