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From: Thomas Tuttle <thinkinginbinary@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:12:18
Message-Id: 20051109000549.GC19861@phoenix.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing by "b.n."
1 On November 08 at 18:49 EST, b.n. hastily scribbled:
2 > Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
3 >> 2005/11/8, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com>:
4 >>
5 >>>> 3. Creation of slideshows from photographs. I would like to be able to
6 >>>> select some or all of the photographs, maybe add some opening or
7 >>>> closing title, extract headers or footers from EXIF information, edit
8 >>>> transition between photos, add music to the slideshow, adjust the
9 >>>> duration of photos and transition to fit the music, and export a video
10 >>>> in a suitable format to be included in VCD, SVCD or DVD.
11 >>>
12 >>> I have no idea... but looks like the most horrible kitschy bad-taste
13 >>> thing I ever heard, so I refuse to give you advices about such an horror
14 >>> :-)
15 >>
16 >> Maybe, but you can make really happy your mother-in-law if you prepare
17 >> a few of those slideshows containing photos of her grandchildren. If
18 >> you finally author an easy to use SVCD menu, burn it on a printable
19 >> surface CD, and print a photo of them in the surface, you become her
20 >> favorite son-in-law... believe me, tested and proven ;o)
21 >
22 > Ahaha, OK, you're forgiven :-P
23 > (Sorry if I looked rude, but I couldn't control myself in front of such
24 > a description...)
25
26 Yeah... it sounded like a description of a bad PowerPoint presentation.
27
28 ;-)
29
30 Good to see you're using it for something tasteful and not to annoy
31 co-workers.
32
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