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Martin Hope
popoolmica
Asked: 2020-07-22 01:28:07 +0800 CST
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I recently noticed that Evince started showing the following unusual behavior when in Presentation mode (after F5 is pressed) on my laptop: instead of making the slide occupy most of the screen, it keeps it to a pretty low dimension, and fills the rest in black, as in screenshot below.

Zooming seems disabled in Presentation mode, despite working outside Presentation mode, and I couldn't find any other related options to adjust, so I can't find a way to enlarge the slide back.

This makes it quite unusable for seminars and for screen sharing. Does anybody have any suggestion? Many thanks!

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Martin Hope
BRMBU
Asked: 2019-07-18 02:29:12 +0800 CST
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I do presentations for educational courses (university, college, schools). With many slides, lots of videos and pictures.I had been using WPS presentation software (kingsoft) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS; since it allowed me to insert videos. As of now whenever I insert a video or a picture it hangs. I need to reboot the software. This issue persists despite updating the software or reinstalling the software with the latest update

Is there any other software which can

  • Be installed on the Linux laptop (free version or open source)
  • Has inbuilt slide transitions
  • Can insert videos (2 min - 7 min)
  • Can handle large pictures
  • Has some learning tools or videos for initial hang of the software.

P.S. I have tried using Latex Beamer but I am not sure if videos can be inserted and slide transitions are available. TIA

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Martin Hope
stragu
Asked: 2012-04-10 16:59:21 +0800 CST
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I was wondering what could be a good app (with a GUI ;) ) for making a video from a bunch of photos or images, to create a time-lapse video, or a stop-motion animation, or even a video like this one.

The idea is to set a really small time between each photo, but also to be able to change this time every so often, or add some effects, to make the succession smoother in particular.

What would be perfect is a function that allows automatic cropping of the photos as well as exposure adjustment so they all have the same background and so the time-lapse video looks smoother.

I know about the slide show app "Imagination" but the interval can not go under one second.

Edit: here is my progress, also thanks to the first answer:

  • I tried Luciole, it is really simple and promising, but pretty buggy, and I only could export an average video in .dv format (mpg2 and avi don't work). Apparently, it has difficulties when changing the fps.
  • I also tried StopMotion: also pretty buggy, I had to go into preferences and modify the encoding commands to get a result, but it's the best result I got so far. But none of those has effects to make transitions smoother...

I tried several diaporama apps:

  • Imagination doesn't handle more than 1 image per second;

  • PhotoFilmStrip (repo version and latest version from website): same problem even though you can go down to 0.1 second per image, it still behaves wierdly (going back to 1 second automatically);

  • Videoporama: doesn't start at all on 12.04.

Any other suggestions?

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