Hello all,
I have a really stupid question. For a small presentation, I need to do a video which basically consists of nothing but still pictures. The pictures shall stay on screen for a few seconds, and then the next picture shall slide in from on side (left/right/up/down) while at the same time the old picture shall slide out to the opposite side, as if one picture pushed the other one out of the frame.

I have experimented with cinelerra, openshot, kdenlive (Ubuntu), and even Windows Movie maker (Win7), but I cannot for the life of me figure this out. Does really no video editor available support this very very simple 2D-operation, or (what my guess is) am I just too plain stupid to use the programs properly?

As this is a kdenlive forum: can the above effect/transition be done in kdenlive, and if it can, how?

If it can't be done, can anyone point me to another program which can? I only have seven days left to complete this, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance
Michael

Yes you probably can do this in Kdenlive. But it is not so simple. It is a video editor but you want a slide show not video right?
Since you want a slide show why don't you try the Linux tool designed for slide shows - LibreOffice Impress. It can do nice slide transitions.

You can save it as a presentation - in different formats - even MS office compatible formats.

And I guess if you really need it as a video you could play the slide show while running a screen recorder.

The simplest effect that would approach the idea is a Wipe transition with linear_x source.
If you really want a slide you then must use a Composite (or Affine) transition on every clip, with keyframed X position from fully hidden to fully visible. As transitions can be copy-pasted you would need to do this boring stuff only once (or twice: the one appearing and the one disappearing)

ttguy wrote:Yes you probably can do this in Kdenlive. But it is not so simple. It is a video editor but you want a slide show not video right?

No, the result should be a video (avi, mkv or something) containing 70 or so still frames which will be pushed to the left, right, up or down for the next picture.

vpinon wrote:The simplest effect that would approach the idea is a Wipe transition with linear_x source.
If you really want a slide you then must use a Composite (or Affine) transition on every clip, with keyframed X position from fully hidden to fully visible. As transitions can be copy-pasted you would need to do this boring stuff only once (or twice: the one appearing and the one disappearing)

Thanks, I will look into this composite transition when I'm back at my home PC tonight. As you talk about two transitions, I assume I have to do the push-out for picture X and the push-in to picture X+1 separately, right?

Best regards
Michael

Hes wrote:

ttguy wrote:Yes you probably can do this in Kdenlive. But it is not so simple. It is a video editor but you want a slide show not video right?

No, the result should be a video (avi, mkv or something) containing 70 or so still frames which will be pushed to the left, right, up or down for the next picture.

Well that is a slide show with transitions between the slides. Something that Libre office does a whole lot easier than kdenlive. And you are in a hurry right? Just sayin'

ttguy wrote:

Hes wrote:

ttguy wrote:Yes you probably can do this in Kdenlive. But it is not so simple. It is a video editor but you want a slide show not video right?

No, the result should be a video (avi, mkv or something) containing 70 or so still frames which will be pushed to the left, right, up or down for the next picture.

Well that is a slide show with transitions between the slides. Something that Libre office does a whole lot easier than kdenlive. And you are in a hurry right? Just sayin'

Well, I have zero experience with creating, let alone recording a 24-frame-per-second, 1920x1080 slide show with smooth transitions; I've just taken a quick look at OpenOffice Impress 4.1.1. (which is installed on my system), but I can't find any way to really control the speed with which new slides are pushed ("slow", "medium" and "fast" are not really hard numbers), plus menu items like "Slide Layout" or "Slide Transistion" do absolutely nothing (not even open a dialog box) no matter how often I select them. Without that, however, I can't even select black background, let alone customize the transistions. The transition itself Impress does okay, but it does not look very smooth.

Thus, so far I don't see Impress as a viable solution to my problem. If I missed something, feel free to let me know.

Thanks so far
Michael