Slightly OT... Need a HD slideshow maker

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Hi all,

Can anyone suggest a good, easy to use app which will allow me to create a slidershow of images?

It would need to…

  • Respect the image ratio of the images (ie: not crop the image to suit the aspect 16:9 of the video)
  • be able to run on Ubuntu (.deb)
  • have a GUI
  • use a fade out, fade in transition.

I used to use ffDiaporama, but that’s not supported in Xenial (dependancy hell). The closest I can get is 4K slideshow, but not only is that proprietry, it also doesn’t respect the image ratio of my pics.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Do you need to export it as a movie? Do you want to manually advance the slides?

I have used reveal.is, which uses html5. I have used it for the presentation here: Presentations/Intro_to_foss_photography at master · pixlsus/Presentations · GitHub

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Thanks @paperdigits, though my plan was to make a mp4 or maybe high res webm (or such) video then build around it using OpenShot. I could then send it as a promotional, or upload it to Youtube for public viewing.

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Sorted. Imagination3, from the repos seems to do the trick. Thanks!

EDIT: Nope, it’s junk too. Rendering was crap.

I can see I’m going to have to install LM17.3 inside VirtualBox using LM18 as a host. I used to use ffDiaporama, which worked fine in 17.3, but the repos haven’t been updated to Xenial (LM18). I can get a deb for 14.04, but won’t install due to depenency issues.

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https://kdenlive.org/

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Blender and the VSE should do the trick, right? Full-quality rendering of the highest caliber in multiple formats (video w/ multiple codecs - FFV1 for lossless, or image sequences). Titling. Various fade/wipe options. Image aspect ratios maintained as you want, arbitrary output size (4k? No problem!).

  • Respect image AR? Check.
  • Run on Ubuntu? Check.
  • GUI? Check.
  • Fades/transitions? Check.
  • Mile high learning curve? Double-check!
    Ok, only sort of kidding about this.

I’d be happy to help work up a walkthrough/workflow for what you want to do (later this week). We can do it in chunks if needed…

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On that same note, I just spend the weekend at Texas Linux Fest here in Austin, and got to hang out with the creator of OpenShot for a while. He’s gotten that project quite far along - maybe it would be worth looking into also? Might be less frustrating/complex than Blender…

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OpenShot has an AppImage available, so it should be pretty painless to try it out!

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@patdavid I just wanted to post that. It’s absolute überkill but it will do the job. :smile: Just be sure to use the ‘3d view’ for creating the slideshow and not the video sequence editor. At least when I last tried it resulted in a quite jerky transition.

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Thanks Pat, that would be awesome!

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Yup! IMO, Blender is probably the best tool for this, and pretty much any other videoesque job you want to pull off in Linux these days! I love the hell out if it. Check out a YouTube channel by MikeyCal Meyers for some great tutorials on how to do video in Blender: https://m.youtube.com/#/user/MikeycalDOTcom

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Just a heads up @Fotonut that I’ve pushed a writeup over on this post for you. :slight_smile: