Hi, After the multiple video threads I thought I'd have a play. I'd actually intended getting this finished for the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition but that wasn't to be.
The concept was to "Show that Ubuntu can be used by a diverse range of people for a myriad of tasks". A series of screenshots to be shown one after the other, getting faster and faster, being on the screen for shorter durations, with a shorter fade between each one. Eventually we split the screen and show 4 shot then 9, then 12 and so on up to hundreds of screenshots. As we increase we turn into a photomosaic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic depicting the Ubuntu logo (this part of the idea came from a discussion with Dave Murphy). In the background is a ticking clock from the very start which accelerates along with the video, and when the logo is finally displayed we hear an alarm clock going off (or perhaps a bomb) symbolising the wake up call (or explosion of use) to/of ubuntu. I played with blender to make this little video, and have discovered the following whilst doing it:- * Photo Mosaics are patented ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic#Intellectual_property ) <- annoying * Virtualbox is great for creating virtual machines. * Blender is an awesome video editor * Blender can't export to avi codec in Ubuntu (option not listed) * Blender can't export via ffmpeg in Ubuntu (crashes) <- also annoying * Blender _can_ export using avi raw The reason I mention this is because the result is that the videos you get out are enormous due to them being uncompressed, leading to this problem:- * Blender can't output videos greater than 2G size on 32-Bit Ubuntu. However, I have managed to get a sample out and compressed it down. Here it is in freedom loving ogg format:- http://popey.com/~alan/ubuntu-marketing/unfinished_640x360_10.ogv - 640x360, 4.9MB http://popey.com/~alan/ubuntu-marketing/unfinished_1280x720_10.ogv - 1280x720, 14MB The original is 1280x720 (HD 720p effectively) so that it looks good on big screens. It scales down fairly well. Comments, questions, positive or negative - I can take it :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
