https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34959
--- Comment #30 from aplatypus <[email protected]> --- Hello, I'm also looking for this same functionality. Allow me to start that YES this is something that is possible and practical, Microsoft's PowerPoint provies this functionality. See: * [Turn your presentation into a video](https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83) As far as I can see they have "solutions" for the key objections that most posts on this are spouting. Having said that, I think there are a few different ways for a "solution" for this behaviour. It doesn't have to be an 'Export' function or ape how Competitive applications (see caveat below). So exporting a video coult be ... 1. An addin/plugin/extension * There is an old OpenOffice extension that does (or did) this. 2. External tool to generate a video format from the slide deck. * Some kind of script to (bash, python, javascript, etc) 3. Built-in Export for the File menu (as in PowerPoint) 4. Some(???) kind of video streaming from an auto-run job. Say video capture of the display all slides On item #2, I'd like something like that so I can just drop an Impress deck onto or input to a script/command and generate the video -- Set and forget so to speak. And I am sure there are better methods possible. One does wonder how PowerPoint achieves this outcome. It seems that something like MKV or MP4 represent a common enough format to something lik Macromedia format; I also wonder if the Handbrake command line can take Macromedia files and generate MKV-s ??? I also feel that a video format that can be streamed, generated from a slide-deck would be a great 'feature' for people to communicat their materials. I expect the 'better' solutions will allow each slide or a group of slides to have their own audio track. For example your "group of slides" might be the whole deck, so you need to provide a sound track along with the 'first' slide. Or, an audio rack might be specified for the "first" slide in group. These are things that can be refined over time, once the overall functionality is agreed. I see a lot of technical comments on how a thing is possible. For me, I like to get the behaviour settled first. Also I'm quite lazy. If we can already generate a deck of images (e.g JPEG) from the slides, a video is just the process of linking them in sequence and adding decorations like a soundtrack, narration and timing. There are already solutions for timing and timing paths. One last thing; so far there are many comments. It it yet time to put together a RFC so that the core functionality is well understood, then it will be a matter of how to provide the specified behaviours on each platfom (including the 'common' core activity). Good luck to all ... Caveat: Since PowerPoint provides this feature, it is probably good of LibreOffice 'credibility' that what ever answer is arrived at ... This should also hook to the Export menu so that is appears to work like the PowerPoint menu. I think that's just being "user nice". So that people comeing from PowerPoint have a process that they already 'know how to do'. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
