[ILUG] slideshow with voice

[keith at clubheadbangbang.org]

Kevin [and all],

This should be easy enough to achieve in Proce55ing, then you could run it in a
browser or as a stand alone application.

http://www.processing.org/

[k]


Quoting Kevin Brennan <kevin.brennan at redsquared.com>:

> For me the method of recording is important, I want to be able to get a
> person to sit and watch a slideshow, chat about the picture then a
> single button press moves to the following slide and starts a new audio
> recording (associated with the image), it would not do to change image
> then stop/start a program like audacity as the continuity of the person
> talking gets broken up. dvd-slideshow looks like a nice tool to render
> the final version and distribute (thx).
>
> Perhaps the answer is write a script which would tie a key press to
> image change a stop/start of records. Any suggestions for the most
> appropriate scripting language, it would need to list image files in a
> directory launch an image viewer, launch a recording application then,
> on each key press, step through each image file and stop/start recording
> with recordings being made to a filename similar to the image.. is there
> an app which captures key press then executes a script ? What's the most
> suitable image viewer and recording tool ?
> /KB
>
> Conor Daly wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:01:37PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> > Kevin Brennan thought:
> >
> >> hmm - but how to associate recording and playback ?
> >>
> >> Caolan McNamara wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:38 +0100, Kevin Brennan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I'm looking for an application which ideally works as follows
> >>>> The application will play a photo slideshow from a folder full of images
> >>>> stepping through the files every time a key is pressed.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> > I recently used dvd-slideshow to generate something like this.  Only
> > thing is it makes a movie with no timing control.  You set everything up
> > first, associate a sound file and generate your dvd movie.  You have to
> > use the config file to specify the timings of each slide to match the
> > audio track.  We mastered the audio track in audacity and got the timings
> > there.  Then we inserted the timings into the dvd-slideshow input config
> > file (one per slideshow).  Rendering of a 10 minute movie took around 40
> > mins with simple transitions and around 4-6 hours with more complex ones.
> >
> > http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Conor
> >
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