Do you know if there's a script or something to create a video loop of Commons featured pictures? I need it to create the background for a video, and it would be very useful for http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Use_eye-catchers_to_attract_attention .
Nemo
Quick hack:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/browser_saver.php?category=Featured%20pictures...
Best viewed in full-screen mode. Tested in Firefox only.
Cheers, Magnus
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know if there's a script or something to create a video loop of Commons featured pictures? I need it to create the background for a video, and it would be very useful for http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Use_eye-catchers_to_attract_attention .
Nemo
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This is neat. Needs randomizing, noscroll, wait until images are fully loaded, opacity/fading, Ken Burnsing(?) But it is not what the uploader asked for, I guess. There are many tools that do what he wants: Gwenview/Digikam, Kdenlive for example.
Daniel Schwen, 22/09/2009 14:45:
This is neat. Needs randomizing, noscroll, wait until images are fully loaded, opacity/fading, Ken Burnsing(?)
But still it's great (and sooo quick). Thank you, Magnus!
But it is not what the uploader asked for, I guess. There are many tools that do what he wants: Gwenview/Digikam, Kdenlive for example.
Actually the most annoying thing is to download all images individually, then Magnus tool is (already) very useful. The problem is how to convert the loop into a (not huge) video to be watched without internet connection or combined with an audio recording. Thanks, Nemo
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel Schwen, 22/09/2009 14:45:
This is neat. Needs randomizing, noscroll, wait until images are fully loaded, opacity/fading, Ken Burnsing(?)
But still it's great (and sooo quick). Thank you, Magnus!
I turned randomization on (was off for testing, I forgot), and now has overflow:hidden (=noscroll). All images except the first one are pre-cached.
Of course, wikimedia servers are down, so no joy :-(
But it is not what the uploader asked for, I guess. There are many tools that do what he wants: Gwenview/Digikam, Kdenlive for example.
Actually the most annoying thing is to download all images individually, then Magnus tool is (already) very useful. The problem is how to convert the loop into a (not huge) video to be watched without internet connection or combined with an audio recording.
So, some tool to (transiently) generate a tar file with all images in a category for downloading? Might be worth a try...
Cheers, Magnus
Magnus Manske, 22/09/2009 16:06:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel Schwen, 22/09/2009 14:45:
This is neat. Needs randomizing, noscroll, wait until images are fully loaded, opacity/fading, Ken Burnsing(?)
But still it's great (and sooo quick). Thank you, Magnus!
I turned randomization on (was off for testing, I forgot), and now has overflow:hidden (=noscroll). All images except the first one are pre-cached.
Of course, wikimedia servers are down, so no joy :-(
Much better. :-)
But it is not what the uploader asked for, I guess. There are many tools that do what he wants: Gwenview/Digikam, Kdenlive for example.
Actually the most annoying thing is to download all images individually, then Magnus tool is (already) very useful. The problem is how to convert the loop into a (not huge) video to be watched without internet connection or combined with an audio recording.
So, some tool to (transiently) generate a tar file with all images in a category for downloading? Might be worth a try...
Yes, it would be useful. But if you need to reuse them you have the perennial problem of metadata (title, author, license) to be downloaded and added. :-/
Nemo
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Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yes, it would be useful. But if you need to reuse them you have the perennial problem of metadata (title, author, license) to be downloaded and added. :-/
You could just pull the parsed body of the file description pages. That would still require you to parse the information yourself, but at least you have it with the images.
Regards,
ChrisiPK
We are working on using the Firefogg extension to "render" browser DOM states to ogg video with attached audio tracks. This is part of an effort to support "flattening" edited sequences that may include javascript effects and css/html/svg/dom overlays into a flat ogg video that any ogg player can view.
If you can modify any of the mentioned javascript slide-show applications you could in add in an export function.
You will need Firefox 3.5.x and the firefogg extension installed. ( firefogg.org )
You can see the Firefogg flattener documentation here: http://firefogg.org/dev/render.html
and example usage here... http://firefogg.org/examples/framerender_example.html ... looks like the example has not been updated for the new api... I have cc'ed jan the firefogg developer perhaps he can plop in a quick fix ...( looks like its calling the addAudioUrl without the duration parameter? )
--michael
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Daniel Schwen, 22/09/2009 14:45:
This is neat. Needs randomizing, noscroll, wait until images are fully loaded, opacity/fading, Ken Burnsing(?)
But still it's great (and sooo quick). Thank you, Magnus!
But it is not what the uploader asked for, I guess. There are many tools that do what he wants: Gwenview/Digikam, Kdenlive for example.
Actually the most annoying thing is to download all images individually, then Magnus tool is (already) very useful. The problem is how to convert the loop into a (not huge) video to be watched without internet connection or combined with an audio recording. Thanks, Nemo
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