Having just got a particularly complicated parallel debugger correctly installed yesterday it came time to write the documentation for the tedious point and click setup procedure. Rather than write 10 pages of screenshot-heavy web pages ( a horrifying process in itself due to the CMS that time forgot) I decided to try making a screencast.<\/p>\n
So I installed Istanbul<\/a> which did a good job of capturing the screen and voice-over. However I then wanted to trim the clip down and add a title to it. Of the two or three editors I tried Kino<\/a> was the most intuitive. However it only accepts DV so I had to convert the Ogg Theora files that Istanbul produces into DV. Fortunately FFMPG<\/a> is your friend here.<\/p>\n Kino imported that DV file just fine and I was able to trim the file. But now I wanted to add a title screen. After a bit of googling I found a video from Linux Journal explaining some video tricks in FFMPG<\/a>. Using this I worked out how to take a single JPEG I had created in GIMP and loop it into a short section of video to use as a title.<\/p>\n The resulting 5 second DV file can be imported into your Kino project. There are probably lots of better ways to do this but this was the easiest method I could discover in an afternoon’s playing around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having just got a particularly complicated parallel debugger correctly installed yesterday it came time to write the documentation for the tedious point and click setup procedure. Rather than write 10 pages of screenshot-heavy web pages ( a horrifying process in itself due to the CMS that time forgot) I decided to try making a screencast. … Continue reading FFMPEG Tips for Screencasting<\/span> \r\nffmpg -i screencast.ogg -target pal-dv screencast.dv\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nffmpg -loop_source -i title.jpeg -s 5 -target pal-dv title.dv\r\n<\/pre>\n