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Ingredients: avconv, ImageMagick, some images, a LibreOffice Writer doc, tiMIDIty, some shell scripting, DeVeDe. Result: A video slideshow with neat fades from image to image & background music... zero ©opyright material involved anywhere. ImageMagick scales images to 720x480 (saved as PNG for losslessness). convert -gravity center -font "Sansation-Bold" -pointsize $PS \         -draw "fill white text 0,0 \"$(cat 1.txt)\"" \         transparent.png temporary-image-name .png Make lettering, convert -gravity center -font "Sansation-Bold" -pointsize $PS \         -strokewidth 5 -draw "fill black text 0,0 \"$(cat 1.txt)\"" \         -channel RGBA -blur 9x9 \         transparent.png temporary-image-name .png Make shadows behind lettering (for contrast). Blend all onto background image using composite ImageMagick command. avconv -loop 1 -i image .png -target ntsc-dvd \         -r 30 -b 2048k -crf 30 -t 10 video-