Did you know that if your kitchen is too small, forcing you to put the ’fridge in the laundry — right next to the back door — defrosting said ’fridge is not only easy, it’s fun? You can ditch pieces of the nearly-defrosted “frail ice” into the back-yard, then force your tired, bruised and worn arms (from moving hosue) to direct the remaining chunks of ice at it. See how high you can bounce the rubble! And if one of your nephews gets in the way, you can give him a surprise lesson about snow.
I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b
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