Raul Suarez: Creating a Photo DVD

• Raul is using FreeMind to organize his presentation, as usual
• goals
  • open source
  • easy to teach
  • burn photos and videos to DVD
• did the work over a weekend
• video came on an SD card in MTS format
• plan to spend time curating and making the photo orientation consistent
• options considered
  • ffmpeg
  • dvd-slideshow
  • slcreator
  • KDEnlive
  • 2manDVD
  • Brasero
• options chosen
  • Imagination - slideshow
  • DeVeDe - DVD writer
• Raul found these were both straight forward and quickly did what he wanted
  • he did not need any tutorials for either tool
• there were 3 different events recorded and he wanted chapter/section for easy navigation
• it was easy to import some photos to play with, and display pretty easily
• background music can be added as well, but this does not play in preview mode
  • using a long piece of music for the menu actually generates a video
  • choosing a short piece of music will make this smaller and faster
• doing the VOB generation is in "go and have dinner" time range
• by generating an ISO image so that his father could download and burn avoiding puttig physical media into the postal service
• creating the ISO can be another "go and have dinner" wait
• mount the ISO to preview
  • Bob mentioned that VLC might also have an option for playing ISO's directly
• Raul's final product for 2 hours was ~40% of the DVD, using SD video

Bob Jonkman: Video Editing with KDEnlive

• Bob is going to try to use video that he recorded from Raul's presentation for the demo
• Cinelara is a more capable than KDEnlive, but also more complicated
• his install tends to crash on transitions so he will avoid them
• using Saw Square Noise music for the sound track, which is licensed CC BY 3.0
• Bob started this while making a nice video of his GNU social presentation
• would like the razor tool to disable itself after use, as he usual want to do one cut at a time
• the edits are stored in XML and the source videos are not changed
• can separate the video & audio good for things like combining and cutting between multiple cameras
• 3 - 4 times as long as the actual video to generate the whole video
• Bob has not gotten into the back-end details
• can also do a slideshow clip option
• can normalize audio
• lots of fancy 3d options
• through this project Bob has gained more appreciation of how hard video/film editing actually is