On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 16:10 +1300, James Pluck wrote:
Hi all!
I'm in a bit of a bind. I'm trying to create a dvd out of some home movies we've made of our foster son so we can give them to his birth parents and his grandparents as part of their Christmas gift. However, the only software I can find is commercial and I can't afford it - let alone know how to use it.
I could do with some hints, please
I need software that will allow me to create a DVD that is a mix of approximately 10 video clips (in MOV format as that is the only format for video that our digi-cam uses) and a slideshow of approx 50 photos - so it's definitely less than a DVD's worth of footage.
I'd use kino to turn the photos into a video slideshow (you can drop a whole folder in, or you can do them one at a time with fancy transitions and panning .. your call) and put a nice soundtrack behind it.. then devede to turn the slideshow and clips into a DVD iso which you can burn with nautilus. devede will automagically convert them from any format gstreamer can process, so MOV's should be OK. It handles my camera's MJPEG AVI files with no issues. Both programs are available in the ubuntu repositories. You'll also need to install the gstreamer codecs; I suggest the ubuntu-restricted-extras metapackage which gives you basically all the stuff people used to use easyubuntu for..