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Very good program.
I would like the positions / sizes of the boxes to be proportional to the image sizes (not fixed).
For example if I make a movie with 2Mpixels images, then I use the same project with images with the same filename but of 1Mpixels, now everything is "out of phase".
This is why I would like the boxes to be proportional to the input image dimensions.
I don't know if I explained myself, I hope so.

Due to a bugfix in Pillow 3.0.0 (python-pillow/Pillow#1500) PhotoFilmStrip needs to adapt the call to rotate() accordingly.

Because mencoder is outdated videos are now created via gstreamer. This already works for linux. Mencode is still used in PhotoFilmStrip for windows. The dependency to mencoder should be removed entirely.

It would be fine if the Output Filename is the same as the project name.

This is a feature request.

Having moved from the old MemoriesOnTV to this software I miss this feature. The ability to add video clips inside the timeline along with still images.

When rendering the resulting video a video clip is simply added along, no effects, just attached. The background music could be silenced to simplify things.

With version 3.0 of python-pil (pillow) deprecated methods were removed. PhotoFilmStrip uses still the deprecated method tostring() of an image object.

Container formats like mkv or mp4 support to include the subtitles. So no separate srt file is necessary.

I have created a script (photofilmstrip-auto) that generate a Video automatically from command line, you must only specify the directory where the photos are.
What it does is to generate a project file with that information, assigning random transitions to the images and then call photofilmstrip-cli with the new project file, to render the Video.
I am already using this feature to generate Videos in batch from many directories that contains photos.
If you would like this feature I could send a Pull Request to my forked repo.

For this script in particular I will also work on:

• python3 compatibility.
• use more Clases from photofilmstrip's modules. (E.g. ProjectFile) for compatibility.
• improve further the code for maintainability and simplicity.

It would be very nice, to have a command, that packs every used file (photo, video, audio) into one single ZIP or 7z file, so that you can give the Project to another person.

by the way: thanks for this very cool software 👍

Thanks and sorry for my english.

Using version 3.7.2-5a61cd0 from Ubuntu 20.04, plus the #63 fix (I changed it myself).

When creating a new project, there are no buttons for cancelling or confirming.

When rendering subtitles into the video #26 hits again, unsure about where in the code though

Effect is that when image 2 is shown subtitle 9 appears shortly and in image 3 subtitle 10
ONLY when rendering into video!

When I use panoramic images and move along them the video is not very smooth and always stutters. What could be the reason for it and how could I fix it? I'm using OGR/FULL-HD/PAL.

PFS crash hard if you do the following:

• open a project
• make a change (e.g. motion left to right)
• press the upper rigtht X to close PFS
• PFS asks whether changes should be saved, reject with no

because subtitles are processed by pango (GTK) the texts must be formatted in well formed pango markup language. if not it is ignored and the text is not properly set.

It should be possible to use more than one audio file in a project.

It would be great to have an option to mux in the subtitle, so it can be played on dumb devices.

At 4315d07 I can no longer build. Even if I do python setup.py clean and then python setup.py build it comes back with Cannot update image resources! Using images.py from source.

Hmm I need some wx libraries. With python-wxtools it seems to build with python 2.7 (but not install) but not with python3... Any suggestions??

OK, found it. On Ubuntu 18.04 just install python3-wxgtk4.0 and it works again. Well, the build and install don't error out. But it doesn't run. Something is not working...

Now I installed gir1.2-ges-1.0 and the PhotoFilmStrip window comes up..! (With a number of warnings on the terminal...)

So after changing the audio files the project cannot be saved. As a workaround one can modify something else e.g. duration of a slide to make the save button enabled.

Current h264 profile is set to high. But that is not supported by streaming of most browsers. Add some possibilites to change encoder settings, to choose h264 profile.

Product: PFS 3.02 64 bit @ Windows 7 64

I've set HOME environment variable to D:\DaneAplikacji. DaneAplikacji was a symbolic link to directory D:\Dane aplikacji. PFS proposed to save project there, I agreed and then it somehow "converted" symbolic link to directory - in result DaneAplikacji wasn't symbolic link anymore, but empty (precisely only with PFS project) directory, which resulted that all apps using HOME var couldn't access it anymore.

The fix for me was simple, i.e. recreate link, but I'm afraid that if such thing happens, there might be a bigger problem under the hood.

• Add multiple video clips to project
• Add multiple sound tracks to project
• Adjust video orientation for each clip
• Set multiple sound tracks for a video clip (if video clip plays longer than one sound track)
• Set multiple video clips for a sound track (if audio track plays longer than one video clip)
• Reorganize video clips and soundtracks in the project editor

I recently upgraded to v 3.0.0-23ba787, the highest I can do under Ubuntu 14.04, and I find the framerate for NTSC HD and Full-Hd is 8.58fps. This makes for horrible jerkiness in rolls and image movement. What edits can I do to the source to get the standard ~30fps?

Please add support for entering an own aspect ratio - or at least portrait mode resolutions for mobile phone optimized videos.

Thanks.

if a new project is created the new project dialog shown no buttons to complete the project creation.
after pressing escape or the x to close the dialog and create a project again, all buttons are shown correctly.

let the user to specify:

• horizontal position
• vertical position
• shadow
• color

A rectangle that exceeds to the right is not detected correctly

I get this error when running:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/photofilmstrip", line 8, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/GUI.py", line 46, in main
    guiApp.Start()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/AppMixin.py", line 41, in Start
    self.InitI18N()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/AppMixin.py", line 31, in InitI18N
    ActionI18N().Execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/action/ActionI18N.py", line 43, in Execute
    lang.install(True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/gettext.py", line 352, in install
    for name in allowed & set(names):
TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable

If I do python3 ./setup.py build I get Cannot update image resources! Using images.py from source

Not sure how to debug and provide additional info, but I had several times a full crash of the program, while rendering is ongoing.

PhotoFilmStrip 3.7.1
Kubuntu 19.10 64bit

GTK shows a gdk warning message there is no sizing cursor

Hello, if no one can do it, I offer myself to translate the interface of the program into Spanish. Can I? Thank you very much.

after python3 setup.py build; sudo python3 setup.py install I get:

Embedded /home/pp/git/PFS/res/icons/dia_s.png using "DIA_S" into photofilmstrip/res/images.py
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/photofilmstrip/core/renderer/GStreamerRenderer.py", line 503
    caps = Gst.caps_from_string(f"video/x-h264,profile={profile}")
                                                                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please, add a way to set start and end time (or start and end slides) to render process (or photofilmstrip-cli).

This open a lot of interesting enhancements to the gui as:

• Preview the current picture.
• Preview selection (3 or 4 slides)
• Render a long project into several video files using photofilmstrip-cli.

When trying to run this program I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/photofilmstrip", line 8, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/GUI.py", line 45, in main
    guiApp.Start()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/AppMixin.py", line 46, in Start
    self.InitGStreamer()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/AppMixin.py", line 37, in InitGStreamer
    gi.require_version('GES', '1.0')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 129, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace GES not available

OS: ArchLinux
Python version: 3.8.1
python-gobject version: 3.34.0
Latest commit as of posting this: 4cf1dac

First things first: Thanks for this great piece of software! It's mentioned on the Ubuntuusers.de Wiki for creating diashows ("Diashows erstellen"), and I was glad to find some software for that task that's not just ancient. So thanks for your hard work!

Unfortunately, I can't run PhotoFilmStrip. When using python setup.py build, the script returns immediately only with output Cannot update image resources! Using images.py from source. sudo python setup.py install gives me a huge bunch of syntax errors (see the complete error output in this gist).

So how am I supposed to run the software? I couldn't find any instructions on that. Your website says to run photofilmstrip-gui.py from the src-directory, but there is no src directory here, right? I'd be glad if you could give some information 😄

Thanks in advance,
Lukas

Thank you very much for #34! Now the feature would be even better, if you could see the actual pictures while adjusting the audio duration. maybe it's possible to display thumbnails in the timetable?

1. open a configuration dialog to see the numbers of pictures in a list
2. press a play button to play the audio file configured in the project properties
3. listen to the music and press space or a button when the slideshow should switch to the next picture
4. in the list the user can see for each a picture the duration according to the current playing time
5. after confirming the dialog all the durations are applied to the transition length for every picture

the music in the rendered slideshow matches to the picture transitions

only the windows version is affected because the font config is missing

When trying to run this program I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/photofilmstrip", line 8, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/GUI.py", line 45, in main
    guiApp.Start()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/AppMixin.py", line 45, in Start
    self.InitI18N()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/AppMixin.py", line 31, in InitI18N
    ActionI18N().Execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/photofilmstrip/action/ActionI18N.py", line 43, in Execute
    lang.install(True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/gettext.py", line 352, in install
    for name in allowed & set(names):
TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable

OS: ArchLinux
Python version: 3.8.1
Latest commit as of posting this: e7fbf5d