maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

[Andrew Gould]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> wrote:
> > >     tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into
> > >     slideshow format?  If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM
> > >     page website that will get me going.?
> >
> > For a "real slideshow" in terms of projected presentation,
> > maybe you want to check the foiltex package (port: textproc/foiltex)
> > and create a PDF file with it, using LaTeX. The advantage
> > is that it can be easily turned into plain text if needed
> > (e. g. for speech synthesis). Along with xpdf (also from
> > the ports), you can do:
>
>
>         This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer.
>        I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice;
>        unfortunately, commercial.
> >
> >       % xpdf -fullscreen <presentation>
> >
> > If you want the slides HTML based, an option would be to
> > create a script that reads the "big" HTML source and splits
> > it into "small" slides with less text, according to a template.
> > But I think it's still neccessary to put hands on it to get
> > things like document structure right.
> >
>
>         You're right, and thanks to you, Uli, and Andrew noted.  Looks like
>        the slideshow/ppt/impress method won't be the way to go.  I've
>        checked out the PresentationZen site and have a better idea how
>        this kind of presentation works.
>
>        I need some other means of reaching folks.
>
>        gary
>
> >
> > --
> > Polytropon
> > From Magdeburg, Germany
> > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>

I've never done video editing on FreeBSD; but on a Mac, you can create a
movie using slides and a sound file (wav, mp3, etc).  You would need an
application that could import images and sound, and let you sync the two by
assigning the order and duration of each slide.  It would then have to spit
out a movie file, of course.

Any video editing (on FreeBSD) knowledge out there?

Another option is a python script that uses vnc to create a shockwave flash
file from your actions on your desktop:
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/

The script is able to import a sound file that you record while you create
the demo.

Good luck,

Andrew