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Thu, 08/30/2007 - 21:47
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jmpoure
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Create movie from images

Dear Friends,

I shot the image of a garden during a day, resulting in 300 images.
Now, I would like to make a short movie.

Two remarks:
:arrow: kdenlive takes a long time to load the images.
Is the dialog creating the movie "on-the-fly"?
Is it an MLT issue?
My images are very large, shot with a Nikon, 5000x3000 approx.

:arrow: In my case, I would like to display 12 images per second, to display clouds moving fast in the sky.
Kdenlive dialog does not reflect this feature, as you need to divide 100/12, which is tedious.
I would prefer a more simple dialog, where I simply say 'display 12 images from my camera per second of movie'.

Otherwize, I like this feature ... because it exists and works well.

Kind regards,
Jean-Michel

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Thu, 08/30/2007 - 22:11
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Re: Create movie from images

I think you are talking about the "Slideshow clip" feature. I did a quick check, and yes, the dialog takes a while to appear, I think it is because it creates a small preview for each image. Creating 300 previews of very large images does indeed take a while. I could change the dialog so that it only displays the image names, and show a small preview for the selected image only. That would probably make the dialog appear almost immediatly.

I don't really see how you will display 12 images per second if you are working on a pal project which is 25 frames per second :?

The dialog asks you for the duration for each image in the format hh:mm:ss:ff
That means hours:minutes:seconds:frames

So if you want about 12 images per second on a pal project, each image should be displayed during 2 frames, so you need to enter 00:00:00:02.

Having an option saying: display x images per second would not be very accurate... and what if the user wants each image to stay for 2 seconds?

regards

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Thu, 08/30/2007 - 22:19
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Re: Create movie from images

Dear JB,

I only read your message now, I played with the feature until now.

Well, it is now clear that format is hh:mm:ss:ff
This is exactly the feature needed ...
It would be better if displaying "hh:mm:ss:ff" to clarify.

Otherwise, in term of speed, displaying the dialog is really too slow.
I plan to shoot cities (skyline) during a day for a documentary, I can hardly wait 20 minutes in front of kdenlive for the dialog to appear. ;)

Except speed, this feature is really *** neat ***
Have a good sleep and thank you for your hard work and help!

Kind regards,
Jean-Michel

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Thu, 08/30/2007 - 22:37
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Re: Create movie from images

Speed issue fixed. I added a tooltip to explain timecode format.

regards

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Thu, 08/30/2007 - 22:48
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Re: Create movie from images

I checked SVN before going to bed ... and magic, you added the feature.
Thank you so much. Good night.

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