Josh Narins wrote:
> I've been using gimp, and gimp-perl, for a long time. I've gotten
> reasonably proficient at taking a single image and creating frames for
> animation, each one altered slightly from the previous one.
> 
> I guess if pitivi is very scriptable, I could just write some python
> to import each frame, insert it into the timeline with a start time
> and duration, right? I can imagine that would be best.
> 

Right now you can automatically import clips from the command line into the 
timeline with the -a option (as of 0.13.x).

I guess we could add another flag to set the default duration for still image 
sources, and that could be a stop-gap solution until we get around to designing 
a better animation interface.

> Or maybe I just export it from gimp in a particular file format[0] and
> pitivi will know what to do?
> 
> By the way, I'm a perl programmer by trade, and have been for more
> than a decade, but I have to admit after looking at the pitivi init
> script I gained some serious appreciation for python.

=)

> 
> -jsn
> 
> [0] - I've tried mng, fli and animated gif without luck
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