Slideshows from my travels are easy to make with PhotoFilmStrip
version: 1.0.0 date: 2024-07-19 author: bestia.dev repository: GitHub
Hashtags: #tutorial #slideshow #photofilmstrip
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PhotoFilmStrip has a great simple UI to make slideshows. I use it to make videos of my travels.
First I choose a song as a background. That defines the duration of the video.
Then I add around 40 images. PhotoFilmStrip adds some random animations to every image. That's ok.
The duration of the image is automatically calculated to fill the song duration. Great.
I then add subtitles to every image. Eventually, I can modify the animation and change the order of the images.
The UI is so easy, that even my wife likes to use it.
Finally, PhotoFilmStrip renders the slideshow as a mp4 file and the subtitles as a srt file. That is fine, but...
I prefer to have the subtitles embedded in the video, so every video player will show them exactly how I want it. I encountered a lot of odd problems with separated srt files in different video players online and offline.
I use ffmpeg in Debian to do that.
ffmpeg -i "MexicoCity.mkv" -vf subtitles="MexicoCity.srt:force_style='FontSize=32'" "MexicoCity_srt.mp4"To install ffmpeg:
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