Folks, One of the reasons why I mention Flex is that there is a need for a simple end user tool with which they assemble such slideshows/presentations. Instead of smart a** answers, Tom could have been more constructive by pointing me towards creation of FLV files which are uploadable onto YouTube.
Surely Adobe would not allow us to find ourselves in a situation that would require third party conversion utilities just to convert between Adobe SWF and FLV formats. Surely Adobe would give us an ability to generate FLV files from wherever we are able to produce SWF files. Surely they would do that, if for no other reason than to keep us off the slippery slope of even contemplating exploring what MS and Silverlight might be capable of and from calculating just how long it might take, either way, before MS ends up eating everyone's lunch. ;) Regards and thanks. --- In [email protected], "valdhor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I were to do what you want, I would use a combination of > ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) and FFMPEG > (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/) server side. > > ImageMagick can take a set of images and create a slideshow. FFMPEG > can then be used to add audio. A quick tutorial is available at > http://www.linux.com/articles/60722 > > Of course, I use PHP - There is a PHP wrapper for ImageMagick > (http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php) and one for FFMPEG > (http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/). You would need to find wrappers > for your own server side language. > > > --- In [email protected], "comfederation" <comfederation@> > wrote: > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > I am able to create a slideshow which uses either external or > > internally embeded images and music. This is the easy part. > > > > Now I need to create a stand alone movie. That is, I need to "capture" > > the slideshow that the user sees and then I need to encode it in some > > format (mp2/4 ?) so that it can be uploaded to YouTube. This is the > > hard part. > > > > So, how is this done within Premiere Express (the "ReMixer" that is on > > Photobucket, MTV and used to be on YouTube) ? To start with, I am > > looking for a good explanation of what is involved. This is the fun > > learning part. ;) > > > > Thanks a take care. > > >
