Author: Jacqui caren Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What do you use (was Multimedia on Linux)
Tim wrote: > Just a quick question re Jacqui comments about making a slide show, what
> software to you use for making the slide show, can you add a sound track with
> it, can you add any transistion effect between pictures???
Well I have tried various tools and none are entirely acceptable.
Most work but have limitations - for instance one tool
provided almost infinite fexibility but if you o not tie up all
loose ends (jump references) it fails to build the target iso
image.
The only tool I have that buildsequences that work on everyones
DVD players is Imagemagick.
My big problem is that the only boxes I have with enough memory
ro run tools such as imagemagick arw currently running windows
so I lazied out and stuck the windows version of I::M on and
left it to run a bat file overnight :-(
And before you say I know if it were running linux the performance
and memory footprint of IM would be way better.
I have not bothered adding an audo track to the images - I suppose
I could steal snippets from the camcorder footage or add music
but the target audience has widly varying musical tastes.