Re: [tlug] Method/tools to create a video from images, but with control of when the images and for how long they show.

[Phillip Tribble <ptribble@example.com>]

Hello Zev,

Please check out "kdenlive", it does that. 
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Regards,

Phillip Tribble.
Technical Support.
Penguin Computing.



On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 21:53 +0900, zev wrote:
> Hello TLUGers,
> 
> I am looking into methods to create a video from a set of images.
> The catch is that I want to show the images at specific times.
> 
> Such as show image 1 at start (0) until 2.5 seconds
> Then show image 2 at 2.5 seconds until 4 seconds.
> Next show image 3 at 4 seconds until 9 seconds.
> And so on.
> 
> I see that both ImageMagick's convert and ffmpeg/mencoder have the  
> ability
> create a video (avi,mpeg, etc) from a group of images, but it appears  
> that
> the images are all show for a uniform set of time.
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool / the proper commands to do what I am  
> looking for?
> 
> In the worst case, I suppose I could write a program to show images in  
> X11 and then
> have ffmpeg grab the video from that.  But, that feels like a slow and  
> wrong way.
> 
> Thanks,
> Zev
>