I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.
Sounds like you’d be looking for basic video editing software. I’d try something like Openshot, Kdenlive, etc. (like movie maker for windows)
While I have not tried, I know that Tex Studio ( http://www.texstudio.org/ ) has support for basic presentations.
Best,
Tyler
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On Aug 25, 2019, at 1:53 PM, H agents@meddatainc.com wrote:
I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.
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At Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:52:59 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
LaTeX Beamer package will do much of that, I don't believe it will handle either videos or music, but without anysort of point and click or drag and drop GUI -- LaTeX Beamer is strictly CLI-based (well there might be GUI frontends out there for LaTeX, but I doubt anything specific for Beamer, and likely not partitularly like what you seem to be asking for).
What you are describing *IS* what LibreOffice's Impress does. In the mess-windows and MacOSX world, this nitch is covered by PowerPoint (pretty much to the exclusion of any other tools, except maybe some high-end [expensive] tools) and in the Linux world, Impress covers this nitch (again pretty much to the exclusion of any other tools). Quoting from the Highlander: "There Can Be Only One". So if you are excluding Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software, you are pretty much left with no options (as you seem to have already discovered).
Note: *I* have never used any MS-Windows software (including PowerPoint) and personally don't have much use for any of the LibreOffice package (I only use them from their laughable "CLI" interface [eg with the silly --headless option, that only works when the DISPLAY env var is actually bound to a X11 display, which needs to be there, to not use] to convert mess-word and excel files to PDF).
Thank you.
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There's a web / cloud package, Prezi, that does very nice presentations, it has some cool features, like letting you create a non-linear presentation that has branches/forks where you can dive into deeper detail or skip on the fly... Its free to use if you don't mind your presentation being 'public', the paid version lets you make private presentations and also includes an offline player
http://prezi.com ...
jhn.pierce@gmail.com wrote:
There's a web / cloud package, Prezi,
If you want to use cloud services then I would recommend googles presentation tool. I use it daily and find it very useful. It works best in chrome/chromium.
You can also publish your presentation as a video.
Personally, I find Prezi sucks!
On 08/26/2019 11:17 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
jhn.pierce@gmail.com wrote:
There's a web / cloud package, Prezi,
If you want to use cloud services then I would recommend googles presentation tool. I use it daily and find it very useful. It works best in chrome/chromium.
You can also publish your presentation as a video.
Personally, I find Prezi sucks! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
No cloud services.
On 08/25/2019 10:10 PM, John Pierce wrote:
There's a web / cloud package, Prezi, that does very nice presentations, it has some cool features, like letting you create a non-linear presentation that has branches/forks where you can dive into deeper detail or skip on the fly... Its free to use if you don't mind your presentation being 'public', the paid version lets you make private presentations and also includes an offline player
http://prezi.com ...
No cloud services, nor do I want my slideshows to be public.
On 08/25/2019 09:59 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:52:59 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
LaTeX Beamer package will do much of that, I don't believe it will handle either videos or music, but without anysort of point and click or drag and drop GUI -- LaTeX Beamer is strictly CLI-based (well there might be GUI frontends out there for LaTeX, but I doubt anything specific for Beamer, and likely not partitularly like what you seem to be asking for).
What you are describing *IS* what LibreOffice's Impress does. In the mess-windows and MacOSX world, this nitch is covered by PowerPoint (pretty much to the exclusion of any other tools, except maybe some high-end [expensive] tools) and in the Linux world, Impress covers this nitch (again pretty much to the exclusion of any other tools). Quoting from the Highlander: "There Can Be Only One". So if you are excluding Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software, you are pretty much left with no options (as you seem to have already discovered).
Note: *I* have never used any MS-Windows software (including PowerPoint) and personally don't have much use for any of the LibreOffice package (I only use them from their laughable "CLI" interface [eg with the silly --headless option, that only works when the DISPLAY env var is actually bound to a X11 display, which needs to be there, to not use] to convert mess-word and excel files to PDF).
Thank you.
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I am looking for something that is more capable than Impress. Although I use LibreOffice/OpenOffice daily, Impress does not address this need.
-----Original Message----- From: H agents@meddatainc.com Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:15 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slideshow/presentation software for CentOS
On 08/25/2019 09:59 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:52:59 +0200 CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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What you are describing *IS* what LibreOffice's Impress does.
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I am looking for something that is more capable than Impress. Although I use LibreOffice/OpenOffice daily, Impress does not address this need.
<SNIP> [Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS] The only things I can think of that are not 'PowerPoint-like software' and have a chance at doing *all* of the things you list are video/DVD creation programs, though some of those probably 'make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this'. They will probably require you to do a 'render' at the end before giving the presentation, and most folks will need you to render it before you send it, but hey I think they might give you most of what you asked for including not being PowerPoint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_editing_software https://itsfoss.com/open-source-video-editors/
Good luck.
-- Even when this disclaimer is not here: I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract.
On Aug 25, 2019, at 12:52 PM, H agents@meddatainc.com wrote:
I am looking for software to make slideshows/presentations on CentOS, incorporating photos, videos and text (possibly also music) allowing for transition effects etc. I'd like to be able to drag and drop/rearrange photos etc. from different folders into a timeline and eventually end up with something I can show. Ideally without having to make copies of photos and store them in a folder specific for this but drag and drop from whatever folder the photo etc. already exists in.
Impress and similar PowerPoint-like software excluded.
I have found a few packages on the net but nothing that is still being developed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
If I were to do presentation and need to avoid MS PowerPoint, I will use Libre Office component: Presenter is the name if my memory serves me. I have it on My FreeBSD workstation, don’t remember off hand if it is in main CentOS repository… Once created, one can save presentation in PDF format, and it will be ultimately portable.
Valeri
Thank you.
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