Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 19:34 schrieb Carol Spears: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:11:38PM +0200, Al Bogner wrote: > > I have a lot of stillimages from a digicam and want to make a movie like > > this: http://pinguin.uni.cc/jerking_flickering_xvid.avi
> > So, if you tell me, that I can't do what I want with gimp-gap I don't > > have to spent time, why gimp-gap doesn't work, otherwise I would be happy > > to get a few hints how I would do this with gimp-gap. > i will be honest, i did not look at the avi you showed here. gap can do > most things to a stack of images that gimp can do with just a single > image. Hi Carol, first I want to say, your webpage helped me a lot, but I didn't find the answers I am looking for. My video lasts 14 sec (6.4 MB), so maybe you could have a look at it. It is a lot eaiser to talk about my wishes and problems. > what gap uses xanim for is for breaking the single video file into > separate frame images. I don't need xanim to split the video, because I have the stillimages already and with the ImageMagick-suite I can create a lot of formats. > then, it might use xanim to put them back > together -- it has been a while since i had gap and xanim installed > together. That is the key-question. I need a tool which does perfect rendering, when transitions are created or the motion of the still images is rendered. > mplayer is another option to build gap against. it works better and > correctly. once installed and gap recognizes it, you get more options > in the Xtns menu where the fun with gap starts. As mentioned, I use Debian and would like to use built deb-packages. Mplayer is installed, but it is not recognized by gimg-gap. There are so much troubles with dependencies of multimedia-packages. I stopped compiling it myself. One thing works then and the other doesn't anymore. I use the packages from Marilliat most times. > when i first started to play with single images, there were so many > picky little rules, like png cannot handle layers or offset. indexed > images can not be jpegs -- stuff like this which today seeems easy. > video manipulation has millions of these same sorts of picky rules. > from the size of the frames to how to set the timing when you re-encode > it. Which format do you recommend for still-images? > getting mplayer installed is only a small part of the bigger task. Oh yes, and the mplayer-installation can make a lot of troubles. > that being said, it sure was fun to play with gap. the same way it was > fun to play with gimp the first time all those years ago. > > gap needs mplayer and disc space. Diskspace shouldn't be the problem. I can use transcode or/and the mjpegtools for encoding, but I need a good solution for rendering. So if you have suggestions with other tools than gimp, please let me know. Al _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
