On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 18:56 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > So why only 2/3 there? Well, before I had little static frames, like > > the narratives back in the old black-and-white, silent movie days ... so > > now I need a simple way to make an image file, of a 2-second duration, > > that shows one static frame. Then I can re-do the process, cat-ting in > > the static frames where needed (to introduce The Wicked Witch, etc.) ... > > Any luck with this?
Yes ... luckily, the effect I wanted was the old, grainy, wibbly, look of the "HELP! HELP!" screens in the silent movies when the heroine was tied to the train track, and the puffing engine was on its diabolical way. So what I did was very klunky, but I was very short on time -- I made little OO Impress slideshows, of the intro bit for the film itself, and an intro bit for each video in the film. Then, I played back the OO slideshows, full screen, with my digital camera filming the playback (thus the shaky, grainy look -- I kept the light dim and didn't use a tripod). Then I took those videos, inserted them in the proper order, and presto-change-o! I was able to take the package to the post office this morning; with two-day express delivery, it will definitely make it there before Christmas Eve. Testing the resulting .avi file -- on a separate machine, Ubuntu 8.04, no problems. In a VirtualBox Windows 2000 machine, using the embedded Windows Media player, no problem. > was hoping animate from ImageMagick might do it, but apparently not. I am sure there are ways to make simple animated .avi files ... I just ran out of time to find solutions. I continue to be impressed with Linux's simple elegance, though ... who'da thunk it would be as simple as concatenating image files together, to make one continuous video? (Of course, it did take the tweak to get sound and video re-synched) Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
