Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote:
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III
> <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
>
> From: John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
> Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?
> To: "Hugo Wau" <wauhugo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:35 AM
>
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 00:46 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Running Lenny do I want to create a simple but lengthy (up
> to three
> > hours) MP4 video in Youtube resolution which is made of
> nothing but
> > text.
> > The display should show transcript or translation of a
> speech
> > (actually MP3), which is being played back.
> >
> > Above the scolled text should be a permanent headline
> showing the
> > title and the chapter number and probably a timestamp.
> > Below this headline should the speech-text be scolled up
> (pixel line
> > by pixel line).
> >
> > I have not been successful in searching through google,
> maybe you can
> > give some hint concerning the expressions to seach for.
> >
> > I am an absolutely newbie concerning video.
> > With which applications or scripting tool can I achieve such
> in Debian
> > Lenny?
> > Do you know of examples?
> > What would you recommend?
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> There may be simpler ones for what you want to do but I have
> always used
> Cinelerra (http://www.cinelerra.org/) - John
>
> Thank you John,
> I have installed Cinelerra and it can apparently load my MP3
> audio file.
> But now is the question, how to make the video part from text,
> which is in textfiles?
> Do I need a script, which displays and captures frame by
> frame?
> Or could I use a tool, which was designed to create subtitles
> for to display the transcript in synchronization with the
> audio?
>
> Hugo Wau
>
>
<grin> I'm no video expert so any advice is HIGHLY suspect. My son is
actually a video editor (and would gladly contract any side work :) )
but I'm an ignoramus. I would guess you could take the text and turn it
into a jpeg or png. Then you can create a frame from that png and
stretch it across the timeline where you want it to be visible. You can
then do fancy things like fade it in and out, zoom in or out, or move it
around the screen. Good luck - John
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