Thanks for the feedback Bruno. Rather than do that, what about recording yourself with Cheese first and save the video to a file? No need for a camcorder. Then re-run the audio and click through the slides. Then save the screencast of the slides to another video file.
Yes, that looks like a better option. I'm not sure what i was thinking. Finally combine both videos using gstreamer picture-in-picture compositing abilities, as explained here: http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gstreamer/347-more-gstreamer-tips-picture-in-picture-compositing Thanks for this. It looks interesting, but a little beyond me for now so i think i'll try kdenlive as Ivan suggested. I will however try and work this out. Thanks, James. On 22 January 2013 17:46, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/01/13 17:17, James Morrissey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to put together a presentation for a conference. The > > conference is in Australia and rather than flying there i am trying to > > make a video of my presentation, following which i will skype into the > > Q&A plenary. > > > > I had thought of simply reading the paper, but worry this might get a > > little boring for the audience. So now i am thinking of including some > > impress slides into the presentation. With that in mind i also don't > > want to simply have my voice running over an impress slide. > > > > So i have thought of trying to make a screencast with an image from my > > webcam running in one of the corners. This seems easy enough, just set > > cheese (or some equivalent) running and record my desktop. The problem > > though is that i'd ideally like to be able to run impress in full > > screen mode. Doing so, however, covers up cheese - even if i set it to > > 'always on top'. > > > > In a perfect world i'd also be able to resize the video of myself, > > during the video, so that when the slide is more relevant to what i am > > saying it dominates the picture and when what i am saying is most > > relevant, my face does. > > > > The solution i thought of was to run cheese on one workspace and > > recordmydesktop on another, where Impress is running in full screen > > mode. I'd then give the talk, clicking through impress, with both > > recordings running. Following that i'd open one instance of Totem and > > another of VLC, one showing the cheese video of me and the other the > > screencast of Impress. I'd then record that desktop, resizing the > > cheese video, of myself, at the different parts of the talk. > > > > Unfortunately it seems that running recordmydestop means that cheese > > can't record from my webcam - it can show the image, but crashed when > > i hit record and now can't find my webcam. The same thing has happened > > with Kamoso which also now can't find the webcam. > > > > I was thus thinking that i could try and use a cam corder, and take a > > video of me giving the talk before taking a screen cast of the impress > > presentation, using the audio from the talk as my cue for clicking > > through the slides. I'd then stick the two of them together, as > > described above, recording the two videos playing on top of one another. > > Rather than do that, what about recording yourself with Cheese first and > save the video to a file? No need for a camcorder. Then re-run the audio > and click through the slides. Then save the screencast of the slides to > another video file. > > Finally combine both videos using gstreamer picture-in-picture > compositing abilities, as explained here: > > http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gstreamer/347-more-gstreamer-tips-picture-in-picture-compositing > > You could probably use a video editor to do this as well. > > Cheers, > > Bruno > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- James Morrissey Research Officer Refugee Studies Centre | Department of International Development | University of Oxford Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies | Lady Margaret Hall | University of Oxford 3 Mansfield Road | Oxford, United Kingdom | OX1 3TB www.peliteracy.org
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