Christmas Designs for 2017 (GC Christmas Video Project)

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2017 6:18 am **(#21)**

God Jul allihopa (Happy Christmas everybody)

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2628

Just some thoughts about the video format, in particular the aspect ratio. Could be the old 4:3 or a more modern 15:9

Say 15:9 then a pixel size could be 1920x1080 as racerx lead-in or a more modest 1280x720. Whatever is used will not match the card designs which range from about 800x900 to 2400x2400 Scaling and quality is not usually a problem, you can get away with murder in a video providing it moves.

What will be needed is some nice Christmas'y backgrounds to fill in borders

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:50 am **(#23)**

racer-x wrote:

Sure, I'll put the slideshow together out of the images posted in this thread. You can design the tittle text that I will overlay over the video. Save it as a 32-bit png for transparency. Make the tittle template @ 1920x1080.

I'l also need recommendation for free sound track.

As for s/w suggestion. I run Linux, but I use a free and powerful compositing s/w that is Windows only. I run it under wine. It's not easy to use however. It's called Aviutl: https://www.videohelp.com/software/AviUtl

rich2005 wrote:

Wallace wrote:

I was going to use Adobe Spark's free online slideshow maker, but unfortunately they don't recognize your mp4 files as a valid format.
So I'll need to make the video some other way.
Can you make an animated gif image, as an intro for the video, instead of an mp4 file?

A basic video editor is Avidemux, free, versions for all platforms.

looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/Wt3ey86.jpg

But it does not (easily) make slide shows. Several of those around but a nice simple slide show application is

http://www.photofilmstrip.org/en/

Get your slideshow video, append it to the lead-in. Of course never that simple

Thanks for both of your suggestions,
it's much appreciated.
I've actually started to arrange the video,
using a basic video editing program called Shotcut.

@ racer-x,
I'm still interested in an intro and outro clip,
if you are so inclined to create them for the video.
I was able to get a few free,
attribution not required Christmas music clips,
using YouTube's Audio Library.

This project depends on the kind of response this thread generates and the amount of images which are posted.
If there are only a few images contributed to the project,
it may not be worthwhile to make a video.
However,
I'm still going to keep this video project open and see what happens.

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2017 1:48 pm **(#24)**

Erisian wrote:

God Jul allihopa (Happy Christmas everybody)

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Thanks for you contribution Erisian.

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rich2005 wrote:

Just some thoughts about the video format, in particular the aspect ratio. Could be the old 4:3 or a more modern 15:9

Say 15:9 then a pixel size could be 1920x1080 as racerx lead-in or a more modest 1280x720. Whatever is used will not match the card designs which range from about 800x900 to 2400x2400 Scaling and quality is not usually a problem, you can get away with murder in a video providing it moves.

What will be needed is some nice Christmas'y backgrounds to fill in borders

Excellent suggestion!
:bigthup

This was also a concern I had,
but I've been adding backgrounds and scaling what images that have already been posted.
Going with 1920x1080 and 15:9.

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Here are a couple of clips I made in AVC format. That should work in your program. One is the snowy bridge. The other one is a fire place that I made into a loop.

Attachment:

Bridge_Snow.mp4.zip [4.23 MiB]
Downloaded 135 times

Attachment:

FirePlace_loop.mp4.zip [5.35 MiB]
Downloaded 147 times

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2017 5:47 pm **(#26)**

racer-x wrote:

Here are a couple of clips I made in AVC format. That should work in your program. One is the snowy bridge. The other one is a fire place that I made into a loop.

Attachment:

Bridge_Snow.mp4.zip

Attachment:

FirePlace_loop.mp4.zip

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

I'll place both clips within the video's intro and outro.

Thanks again racer-x,
for your time and effort,
it's much appreciated.
:bigthup

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Get to work,
all you Gimp Chat Members,
to help us make this an epic GIMP 2017 Christmas Art video!

2-ton · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:22 pm **(#27)**

If I can get my 'must do' lists done, then I'll see if I can come up with a contribution. Working retail this time of year is pretty brutal on one's time, though!

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:54 pm **(#28)**

2-ton wrote:

If I can get my 'must do' lists done,
then I'll see if I can come up with a contribution.
Working retail this time of year is pretty brutal on one's time, though!

Do the best you can 2-ton.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12854

Though it's only a part time job, I too work for a major retailer (17 hours last week which is above and beyond my 40 hour full time job). I do feel your pain, 2-ton.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:36 am **(#30)**

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:42 am **(#31)**

sallyanne wrote:

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Thanks sallyanne!
Your contribution will be added to the video.

Issabella · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 3:58 am **(#32)**

Thanks to you who are preparing this video project. I'm sure it will be really very nice. I love all of the contributions. :clap

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:15 am **(#33)**

Issabella wrote:

Thanks to you who are preparing this video project.
I'm sure it will be really very nice.
I love all of the contributions. :clap

Thanks again Issabella,
for your generous contribution to the Gimp Chat 2017 Christmas Video Project.

I've done very little to almost no video editing and I'm basically flying by the seat of my pants,
but I'll have a video for us in time for the holiday.
As long as our GC members keep the contributions flowing.

:bigthup

gimper66 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 6:17 am **(#34)**

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 6:21 am **(#35)**

gimper66 wrote:

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Thank you gimper66!
:jumpclap

gimper66 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:14 am **(#36)**

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:39 am **(#37)**

gimper66 wrote:

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Thanks again gimper66!
:bigthup

gimper66 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:52 am **(#38)**

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:03 am **(#39)**

gimper66 wrote:

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2 More images from gimper66!
:wow

Mainah_Ayuh · **Joined:** Oct 12, 2016 **Posts:** 377