[ale] Special effects used while creating a slide show

[Richard Bronosky]

What you are looking for is "The Ken Burns Effect". It is the
signature of iPhoto on a Mac. About a year ago I tried to find
something that used the effect on Linux, but found nothing. I ended up
writing my own tool with PyGame but never finished it. My goal was to
make the best looking digital picture frame you ever saw. I would
still like to finish the project someday.

On 11/28/09, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> My wife received a link to a video that showed a series of still photos
> as a video. A slide show, but with an interesting twist.  The slides had
> motion, in that there was panning and zooming so it wasn't just a static
> display for however many seconds the still was displayed.  The zooming
> looked to be the same for each photo, going from 1:1 to 1.4:1 perhaps.
> The panning was different, sometimes moving left and down, sometimes
> right and up, sometimes just left or right, etc.
>
> So I was wondering if anyone knew of Linux software to accomplish the
> same.  I've produced video slide shows before but they've been static.
> This effect was a nice feature and I'd like do the same if I could.
>
> When panning it panned across the photo on a black background from a
> distance that showed the background on one or more edges.
>
> Any ideas?  I suppose I could write a script to run convert on an image
> and create a series of images to turn into a video.
>
> Jim.
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