Side-by-side presentation and video
Well, it was a nice idea I believe, to place a video side-by-side with a Powerpoint (or one of it's inferior Open Source clones) presentation. The idea came when my boss showed me Microsoft Producer, which does exactly this (it's nice to have people who at least pay some attention to non-Open Source, especially when he pays you.). Producer is a plugin for Powerpoint, with a simple User Interface, which involves importing a presentation, and a video. Setting the timings for the slides, placing them adjacently in an output it video. It sounds simple enough, and I thought this functionality would be possible in some of the Open Source video editing equipment, but either: I knew for a fact that the software didn't have the capability, or: the software was impossibly difficult to use. So, I had a think, and a play, and another play, and I came up with the plan: Split the presentation into images: 1 slide per file Split the video into frames of png files, and save the sound for ...