--- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III <jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
From: John A. Sullivan III <jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application? To: "Hugo Wau" <wauh...@yahoo.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:35 AM On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 00:46 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: > Hello, > > Running Lenny do I want to create a simple but lengthy (up to three > hours) MP4 video in Youtube resolution which is made of nothing but > text. > The display should show transcript or translation of a speech > (actually MP3), which is being played back. > > Above the scolled text should be a permanent headline showing the > title and the chapter number and probably a timestamp. > Below this headline should the speech-text be scolled up (pixel line > by pixel line). > > I have not been successful in searching through google, maybe you can > give some hint concerning the expressions to seach for. > > I am an absolutely newbie concerning video. > With which applications or scripting tool can I achieve such in Debian > Lenny? > Do you know of examples? > What would you recommend? > <snip> > > There may be simpler ones for what you want to do but I have always used Cinelerra (http://www.cinelerra.org/) - John Thank you John, I have installed Cinelerra and it can apparently load my MP3 audio file. But now is the question, how to make the video part from text, which is in textfiles? Do I need a script, which displays and captures frame by frame? Or could I use a tool, which was designed to create subtitles for to display the transcript in synchronization with the audio? Hugo Wau
