[wellylug] <>= IMovie

Nigel Roberts nigel at nobiscuit.com
Wed Jul 21 13:25:13 NZST 2004


But, but, but you won't be able to include super kitch speech bubbles and canned laughter!

/me thinks of all the really bad home movies he's seen in the past
made possible by iMovie.

And I think you want MPEG2 for DVD, not MPEG1.

Also, a quick search on http://freshmeat.net for video editing revealed this:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/

Plus many others.

Cheers,
Nigel

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 13:14:25 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:

> > Hey,
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is an application that is similar to iMovie
> > for Linux?
> 
> ...
> 
> > It doesnt need to do motion, so any application that can combine Still
> > Images and music together, and do nice transitions and then export it
> > to MPEG1 or something that can then be converted to be able to be
> > played in a DVD player.
> 
> 
> I don't know about iMovie equivalents for Linux, so I can't help you
> there.  But on a related note ...
> 
> I recently put together a static HTML+JPEG photo album which I burned
> to a CD.  Just out of curiousity, I put the CD into my DVD player - a
> Warehouse $79 special.  I was surprised to discover that it found all
> the image files on the disk and was able to cycle through them in
> order of filename (or randomly), with varying fade/wipe transition
> effects.  I know it can also play MP3 files but it probably wouldn't
> play the music and loop through the photos at the same time.
> 
> So given that you could probably get 90% of what you're after by
> simply dumping the JPEGs onto a CD, how much effort are you prepared
> to expend for the remaining 10%?
> 
> Cheers
> Grant
> 
> 
> 
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