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Re: Video editing



On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:34:53 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> On 12/10/08 13:11, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > 
> >>>> Another thing I want to do is adding a simple text presentation at the
> >>>> beginning of the file
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Arc Roca <tonroca@yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> >>>> Write your text say with tex, do dvipng, then convert the pngs into a
> >>>> short movie with gimp or something else. Then attach at the beginning of
> >>>> your movie.You can use any editor to create your text, including
> >>>> openoffice, or scribus. If you want fancy fonts, etc.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > 
> >>> It would be very nice to manage to do such a thing, i.e. transform an
> >>> image into a movie!  I didn't manage with gimp: how can I achieve this?
> >>>
> >>> And, Ron, once converted the image into a movie, will it be possible to
> >>> attach it to the video with plain old cat?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > 
> >> The problem is that Arc Roca's comment about text editing makes no sense in
> >> the context of video editing.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > But, if what he says is true, that would be a solution, wouldn't it?
> 
> "tex" is used for writing text books and scientific papers.
> 
> I guess that if you need to create PowerPoint-style presentations 
> but really hate every other dedicated presentation tool, you could 
> use latex, dvipng, convert and ffmpeg to create an AVI file.
> 

Probably off topic, but for powerpoint style presentations with tex there are
several packages that produce pdf, avi sounds inappropriate for a presentation.

beamer is my personal favorite

> But *why*???
> 


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