On 15 July 2013 08:15, Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
> On 2013-07-14 17:41, Tim wrote:
>
>> On 14/07/13 15:54, Tony Whitmore wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm revisiting an old topic here, I think. But I'd like to generate a
>>> video file containing a slide-show of images.
>>>
>>> Ideally, I'd point a program at a bunch of sorted JPEGs and let it
>>> generate an HD video file with each image nicely cross faded into the
>>> other, with an 8-10 second delay.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of anything that can do that? dvd-slideshow doesn't
>>> seem to support HD and isn't maintained AFAICT. All the actual video
>>> editors need me to manually click and drag each file onto the timeline -
>>> no mean feat when there are 500+ images.
>>>
>>
> I recently tried to do the same, I opt-ed to use OpenShot (v1.4.3 on
>> Xubuntu), that was until I found a bug which did not sync the sound
>> track to the slide show. Apparently a new version is due out soon
>> although it was not confirmed if the new version will resolve the
>> issue.
>>
>
> Yes, OpenShot is the least worst choice of video editor at the moment
> IMHO, though I have an Ubuntu 11.10 VM to run an old version in which
> doesn't have the audio sync issue you describe. I've been waiting for that
> to be fixed for over a year.
>
> But I can't/won't manually drag 500 images onto a timeline and configure
> the crossfades etc. It really needs to be a "fire and forget" thing.
Try this - it's written in python and has a cli
http://www.photofilmstrip.org/4-0-Download.html
Good luck.
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