Creating Digital Video From A Still Image

This section details the basic steps of creating a layered image, through saving as a flat raw still image and finally converting the result into a specific frame length of Digital Video.

Prerequisites

This author assumes you are familiar with using GNU Linux and Ubuntu applications and are capable of performing basic tasks without in-depth explanation.

Required Applications

• GIMP - Installed by default as part of an Ubuntu Desktop install.

• encodedv - Part of package libdv-bin.

Creating The Still Image In The GIMP

This is entirely up to you but for this session we will use: attachment:ubuntu_logo_text_strapline_pal.xcf

The example image is a simple two layer image, a background layer that is white and a foreground layer that is the Ubuntu logo. The image is saved in the GIMP XCF format.

Save As A Flat RAW Image In The GIMP

Once we are happy with an image we need to save it in a format ready for conversion. The authors preference is to save as a .ppm file and when prompted by the GIMP selecting the RAW format.

Other file types and formats may be equally suited in this task - Experimenting is learning!

Creating The Digital Video File