[Tfug] still photos in a video project

[daniel galaska]

you might try kdenlive (i know that it is in the ubuntu repos but not sure of your distro).  i am also into video/photo editing and found kdenlive to be fairly feature-rich and fairly simple (though i didn't try to import still photos).  i jumped ship to mac for these kinds of things now -- i wanted to spend more time working on the project, rather than spending my time finding the right tool for the project ;).

cheers.

-- daniel


--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] still photos in a video project
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 8:11 PM
> Thanks for the help so far. Sounds good. I don't know if
> I'll try the Planet
> CCRMA thing, as I am quite happy with the stability of my
> present system,
> and don't presently have those type of needs. However,
> I'll certainly keep
> it in mind.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Linux Media
> <linuxmedia2 at aim.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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