> > Hi, > > After the multiple video threads I thought I'd have a play. I'd > actually intended getting this finished for the Ubuntu Free Culture > Showcase competition but that wasn't to be. > > The concept was to "Show that Ubuntu can be used by a diverse range of > people for a myriad of tasks". > > A series of screenshots to be shown one after the other, getting > faster and faster, being on the screen for shorter durations, with a > shorter fade between each one. Eventually we split the screen and show > 4 shot then 9, then 12 and so on up to hundreds of screenshots. As we > increase we turn into a photomosaic > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic depicting the Ubuntu > logo (this part of the idea came from a discussion with Dave Murphy). > In the background is a ticking clock from the very start which > accelerates along with the video, and when the logo is finally > displayed we hear an alarm clock going off (or perhaps a bomb) > symbolising the wake up call (or explosion of use) to/of ubuntu. > > I played with blender to make this little video, and have discovered > the following whilst doing it:- > > * Photo Mosaics are patented ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic#Intellectual_property > ) <- annoying > * Virtualbox is great for creating virtual machines. > * Blender is an awesome video editor > * Blender can't export to avi codec in Ubuntu (option not listed) > * Blender can't export via ffmpeg in Ubuntu (crashes) <- also annoying > * Blender _can_ export using avi raw > > The reason I mention this is because the result is that the videos you > get out are enormous due to them being uncompressed, leading to this > problem:- > > * Blender can't output videos greater than 2G size on 32-Bit Ubuntu. > > However, I have managed to get a sample out and compressed it down. > > Here it is in freedom loving ogg format:- > > http://popey.com/~alan/ubuntu-marketing/unfinished_640x360_10.ogv<http://popey.com/%7Ealan/ubuntu-marketing/unfinished_640x360_10.ogv>- > 640x360, 4.9MB > http://popey.com/~alan/ubuntu-marketing/unfinished_1280x720_10.ogv<http://popey.com/%7Ealan/ubuntu-marketing/unfinished_1280x720_10.ogv>- > 1280x720, 14MB > > The original is 1280x720 (HD 720p effectively) so that it looks good > on big screens. It scales down fairly well. > > Comments, questions, positive or negative - I can take it :) > > Cheers, > Al. >
Looks great Al, you've certainly got the start of something there and you've obviously put a lot of hard work into it! Ending the video with an explosion of some kind, perhaps with the smoke clearing to reveal www.ubuntu.com or the Ubuntu logo would seem like a nice way to end the show. On a side note - The Evolution shot about three quarters of the way through at least shows you read my emails! Chris
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