[ILUG] slideshow with voice

[Kevin Brennan]

For me the method of recording is important, I want to be able to get a 
person to sit and watch a slideshow, chat about the picture then a 
single button press moves to the following slide and starts a new audio 
recording (associated with the image), it would not do to change image 
then stop/start a program like audacity as the continuity of the person 
talking gets broken up. dvd-slideshow looks like a nice tool to render 
the final version and distribute (thx).

Perhaps the answer is write a script which would tie a key press to 
image change a stop/start of records. Any suggestions for the most 
appropriate scripting language, it would need to list image files in a 
directory launch an image viewer, launch a recording application then, 
on each key press, step through each image file and stop/start recording 
with recordings being made to a filename similar to the image.. is there 
an app which captures key press then executes a script ? What's the most 
suitable image viewer and recording tool ?
/KB

Conor Daly wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:01:37PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Kevin Brennan thought:
>   
>> hmm - but how to associate recording and playback ?
>>
>> Caolan McNamara wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:38 +0100, Kevin Brennan wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I'm looking for an application which ideally works as follows
>>>> The application will play a photo slideshow from a folder full of images 
>>>> stepping through the files every time a key is pressed. 
>>>>    
>>>>         
>
> I recently used dvd-slideshow to generate something like this.  Only
> thing is it makes a movie with no timing control.  You set everything up
> first, associate a sound file and generate your dvd movie.  You have to
> use the config file to specify the timings of each slide to match the
> audio track.  We mastered the audio track in audacity and got the timings
> there.  Then we inserted the timings into the dvd-slideshow input config
> file (one per slideshow).  Rendering of a 10 minute movie took around 40
> mins with simple transitions and around 4-6 hours with more complex ones.
>
> http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net
>
> Conor
>