[Tfug] still photos in a video project

[Matthew Patenaude]

Thanks, guys, I really appreciate the help. I may give kdenlive a try as
well, at least to see how it compares. I presently have pretty much
everything else installed, and eventually, I'll go through and uninstall
what I am not using. :)

I hate to say, but yes, *if I could afford one*, I would buy a Mac for such
stuff, myself. I am a bit more of a whatever-gets-it-done-right kind of guy,
( <duck>) but as I can't afford one I certainly don't mind trying to do it
with what I have, and I sure don't want to try to do it on Windows!

I haven't used Windows regularly for so long, and every time I sit down at a
Windows machine, I am grateful for Linux. I also enjoy being able to do
whatever I need to do with my machine, as I'm pretty happy with my Ubuntu
setup.

Thanks again.
Matthew

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Joe Roberts <deepspace at dataswamp.net> wrote:

> Heh, video editing on my system is a nightmare.  I actually can't even
> run Kino for anything more than basic tasks.  I have to run a
> virtualized (KVM) Debian stable install to be able to do editing
> without crashing.  It's a mess.
>
> However, I have stubbornly worked around these issues for now (I hope
> to someday have a Mac or something to do this stuff on).
>
> I wrote a script to take a still and make an avi from it (and you're
> right, Kino doesn't do it) - then just use the resultant video/still
> clip in Kino normally - adjust hardcoded paths as necessary (my
> workflow never changes):
>
> stilltomovie.sh
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # stilltomovie.sh [frames] [filename]
>
> counter=0
>
> while [ $counter -lt $1 ]; do
>  thisfilename=`printf "%06d" $counter`.png
>  cp $2 /scripts/stilltomovie/work/$thisfilename
>  let counter=counter+1
> done
>
> echo "(*) Encoding to DV"
>
> ffmpeg -i /scripts/stilltomovie/work/%6d.png
> /scripts/stilltomovie/work/output.dv
>
>
>
> ** I have never been a fan of video editing in Linux.  It is one of
> Linux's weakest areas, imho, but most things can be worked around like
> above.
>
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