Thanks for your help Drew,
I have finished the presentation and put it on to DVD and it works. The method was a bit involved but all worked fairly simply; I created the slideshow in Impress mainly because I wanted to have a scrapbook type of look to it and Impress has a background that just looks like a wire bound book page so I used it. Then the problems started when I tried to output it to DVD, the SWF file produced by Impress didn’t seem to want to open in anything, not even a dedicated Flash Player. Soooo, I then exported each image as a tiff file and used an application called Imagination to produce the slide show, the only complaint was that it didn’t have a transition that looked like a page turning so I used random selection of the many provided instead. Imagination produced a VOB file which I was able to open in DeVeDe and author it to an iso image which I then burned to DVD with K3B. Anyway all a lot of mucking around from one package to another but a more than satisfactory result. Cheers Rod From: drewjensen [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2011 3:18 AM To: rod Subject: RE: Video output from Impress On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 23:42 -0800, rod wrote: > Thanks for that Drew, > > > > I will download swfdec flash player and try it. I have made a slideshow in > Impress, there’s half a gig of it, it is simply a series of still images in > four sections with some music in the background with 10s between slide > changes; I want to put the presentation onto a DVD that can be played on a > standard DVD player. The presentation is on a machine running Ubuntu 11.10 > but I can port it to a Windoze machine if necessary. If I’d thought it was > going to be this hard I’d have used some other authoring method. The main > stumbling block seems to be the SWF file but I’ll try with your > recommendation. Hi Rod, Yes, to be fair Impress would not have been my first choice for this at all - and it still might be worth the time to switch to something like OpenShot - if the images are on your disc then putting something like this together should be a very quick exercise. Just to answer the other query here - I tend to use XVidCap for screen captures - but you have to understand that this will not get you a full 25 frames per second, let alone 30 FPS - on my machine I can get maybe 13 FPS if I run Impress and the capture utility under the same host and this means that you have to double all your timings as when the final render is done at 25 FPS. So when I need to do this what I do is use VirtualBox to run Impress in a guest OS (usually OpenSuse) and run the screen capture utility in the Host - this will get me maybe another 4 FPS on the capture without having to drop the quality and or size during capture. Finally - OpenShot is really nice for video effects and not bad for working with audio - but my workflow is usually to use both OpenShot for video transitions and then mix the audio tack(s) into this using PitiVi. I know that sounds a bit convoluted but once you have done it a few times you can get fairly quick. I'll give you an example - a few weeks back I tuned in to a live broadcast by Jono Bacon (canonical) about, amongst other things, loco-teams and at the end of his broadcast he grabs his axe and starts to riff...cool. So - I quick turn on soundrecorder to capture the audio - jump to the Ubuntu wiki and grab a piece of art work - use GIMP to produce a couple quick images for text overlay and use OpenShot to mix it up. Literally 30 minutes after his broadcast is finished I was able to upload this little (a bit rough on audio level..) video: http://baseanswers.com/ubuntu/ubutu200.mp4 [BTW consider this public domain] Anyway - long way to say - if this project is worth doing, you really should consider doing it with the right tools and Impress isn't it, IMO. Best wishes, //drew > > > > Cheers > > > > Rod > > > > From: drewjensen [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] [mailto:[hidden > email]] > Sent: Sunday, 27 November 2011 11:56 AM > To: rod > Subject: RE: Video output from Impress > > > > Hello Rod > > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 20:52 -0600, jorge wrote: > > Hi > > > > I use Swfdec Flash Player to view that kind of files... but it isn't > > like a movie, it is like a presentation. > > Right and if all you want is flip chart type stuff then sure output to > SWF is fine, but if you are looking for a bit more (custom animations > for instance) then what I do is use a screen capture utility to generate > the video file. > > Then I take the raw input into video editors, with not too much effort > you can get some decent results. > > Also before you ask - if you are using Windows, I have no idea what > tools to use - if Linux, ask away. > > Best wishes, > > //drew > > > > > > Adress: http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ > > > > Regards, > > > > Jorge Rodriguez > > ________________ > > > > > > > > El sáb, 26-11-2011 a las 16:58 -0800, rod escribió: > > > Thanks Jay/Tom, > > > > > > The only video format available is the Flash format and I tried that a > > > number of times but for some reason nothing I have installed (even Flash > > > Player itself) could open or play the generated files. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > Rod > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > Rod > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] [mailto:[hidden email]] > > > Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2011 1:58 AM > > > To: rod > > > Subject: Re: Video output from Impress > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi :) > > > Sorry for the very slow response! I thought that > > > File - "Save As..." > > > could save in a wide variety of movie formats? > > > Regards from > > > Tom :) > > > > > > --- On Sun, 20/11/11, rod <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > > > > From: rod <[hidden email]> > > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Video output from Impress > > > To: [hidden email] > > > Date: Sunday, 20 November, 2011, 7:54 > > > > > > I have just spent quite a bit of time making a slide show in Impress and > > > what > > > I want to do is to write the presentation to a DVD that can be played on > > > a > > > standard DVD player. Is there any way that I can output in some video > > > format? 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