Create Slide Exhibit From Pictures - Purpose Ii (Gui)

Part 1 of this serial shows how to exercise a video or slide demonstrate from a laid upward of paradigm files using ffmpeg, a command-line tool. This postal service describes Imagination, a GUI-based tool, which offers or then fancy animation features inwards slide demonstrate creation.

To install Imagination on a Debian Linux system:

      $ apt-get install imagination

After installation, opened upward Imagination, together with follow the steps below to exercise a slide show:

Create a novel project.
- Click New inwards the Slideshow menu.
- Select the Video Format. Available video formats are VOB (DVD video), OGV, FLV (Flash video), together with 3GP (for mobile phones). If you lot need something else (e.g., MP4, AVI), you lot tin flaming convert the video to such format afterwards using ffmpeg.
```
 $ ffmpeg -i movie.vob -strict experimental movie.mp4 
```
- Select the Video Size. Various high definition, together with criterion Definition sizes are available.
Import the Pictures.
- Click Import Pictures inwards the Slideshow menu.
  Note that the input painting files should reside inwards the same folder.
- Navigate to the folder containing the painting files.
- Multi-select the painting files.
  To multi-select, click the files spell pressing the Ctrl or the Alt key.
Rearrange (if then desired) the companionship of pictures to seem inwards the slide show.
The thumbnails of the imported pictures are displayed horizontally at the bottom of the screen. The companionship inwards which the thumbnails are displayed is the same companionship they seem inwards the slide show. You tin flaming easily alter the companionship past times dragging together with dropping the private thumbnails.
Select unmarried or all pictures.
You tin flaming configure private slides, or you lot tin flaming apply the same belongings to multiple or fifty-fifty all slides. To select all slides, press the Ctrl-A keys. To select private or to multi-set a subset of slides, click on the corresponding thumbnails.
Modify Slide Settings.

After selecting the slide(s) to locomote on, you lot are cook to brand or then changes. Minimally, you lot should alter the Slide duration inwards sec. I modified the duration from 1 bit (default) to three seconds.
By default, in that place is no transition number betwixt slides (Transition Type is laid upward to None). If you lot experience artistic, you lot tin flaming pick out from a rich laid upward of transition effects to assign to the slides. Click here for a alive sample of all available transition effects.
Add Slide Motion (Optional).
You tin flaming apply the pan together with zoom number to a slide (aka the Ken Burns effect) past times adjusting the Slide Motion properties.
- Drag the Zoom slider to select the desired zoom level.
- Pan the paradigm past times clicking together with dragging the left mouse push clitoris until you lot are satisfied amongst the painting inwards view.
- Set the duration for the slide motion.
- Click Add to add together a terminal point.
- Repeat the steps to add together equally many terminal points equally you lot want.
Add Slide Text (Optional).
You tin flaming add together a subtitle to a slide past times modifying the Slide Text properties.
- Enter the subtitle text.
- Adjust the font, including its size, together with color.
- Select the subtitle position.
Add a well rail (Optional).
Click Import music inwards the Slideshow menu, together with select the music file.

Once imported, the music file is listed inwards the Audio tab amongst its duration inwards clear display. Note: if the well duration is longer than that of the video, the well together with ultimately the slide demonstrate terminal when the video stops. The video does non loop back.
Export slideshow.
- Click Export inwards the Slideshow menu.
- Enter the output file advert including the extension (e.g., fashion.vob).
- Select the aspect ratio: 4:3 versus 16:9.
The slide demonstrate is created inwards the video format specified before when you lot created the projection (e.g., .vob).