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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One walks along the ground (well, top of the Porongurups) to it, from what is the upper right in the satt-image, then walks up about 4m of sloping rock, then climbs up a sharp 3m chunk, then walks south to a 10m-or-so tall ladder which stops at the northen (highest) end of the lighter-brown stripe; then one walks a metre or two uphill from that to the little triangular viewpoint at the south end.
The drop from the south of the viewpoint would be about 50m and not exactly a soft landing.