Posted March 09, 2017
I was finally able to do it. I don't know why OpenShot would always croak at 74% (either preview, or exporting to a mp4 video) when using a particular mp3 file, but when I used a captured wav version of that same file, it worked fine. E.g. VLC plays the mp3 file fine. Does OpenShot have problems with mp3 files in general, or was that some freak occurence?
Other than that, I liked OpenShot, it was quite easy to use for a beginner, something that definitely can't be said for lots of other "Movie Maker alternatives" that I tried.
PixelBoy: You can, for instance, use PowerPoint or its free alternatives to create a presentation that features both audio and pictures and even some easy animations.
Put that in fullscreen mode, and use some screen recording software to capture that, and there you have your video. Yeah I read somewhere that the presentation tool in e.g. Open Office actually has the option to export the presentation to a video file. I was hoping Libre Office 5's presentation tool would have the same capability, but apparently it didn't. I was able to make such a simple presentation with it, but not export it to a video file.
I was hoping not having to use video capturing to achieve this, it just somehow feels "wrong" for making such a simple presentation.
Yeah I figured it is such a simple task that any simple software should be able to do it... but when I googled for something like "music video youtube still picture", most instructions suggested using the (discontinued) Windows Movie Maker, or even some oddball net services which want to know your Youtube username and password (ummm, right, as if I am going to give those to some 3rd party web site).
For some reason I didn't find anywhere a suggestion to use VLC, Some site listed VLMC (which is from the same people, a free video editor), but as far as I could tell it is not even released yet, even for beta testing.
Other than that, I liked OpenShot, it was quite easy to use for a beginner, something that definitely can't be said for lots of other "Movie Maker alternatives" that I tried.
Put that in fullscreen mode, and use some screen recording software to capture that, and there you have your video.
I was hoping not having to use video capturing to achieve this, it just somehow feels "wrong" for making such a simple presentation.
Yeah I figured it is such a simple task that any simple software should be able to do it... but when I googled for something like "music video youtube still picture", most instructions suggested using the (discontinued) Windows Movie Maker, or even some oddball net services which want to know your Youtube username and password (ummm, right, as if I am going to give those to some 3rd party web site).
For some reason I didn't find anywhere a suggestion to use VLC, Some site listed VLMC (which is from the same people, a free video editor), but as far as I could tell it is not even released yet, even for beta testing.
Post edited March 09, 2017 by timppu
