Re: How to capture text rtf or pdf to movie

[Király]

In comp.sys.mac.apps waterfall <wate...@livingwater.net> wrote:
> Is there a way to "capture" or record a text file, an rtf file, an HTML
> file, a pdf file, a tiff file or any other format that text can be
> converted to as a movie and then transfer it to a CD or DVD using Quick
> Time, iMovie, iDVD, Keynote or some other Mac software?

You could open your text in your favorite editor, and then take a screen
shot of it. Repeat until you have captured all of your text in screen
shots. Import the images into iPhoto. Then use iMovie/iDVD to make a
slide show of them.

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K.

Lang may your lum reek.

[JF Mezei]

Kir�ly wrote:

> You could open your text in your favorite editor, and then take a screen
> shot of it. Repeat until you have captured all of your text in screen
> shots. Import the images into iPhoto. Then use iMovie/iDVD to make a
> slide show of them.

Yeah, that would simple. But doesn't iMovie/iDVD have the ability to
import text for titles ? I know that the Adobe product (Ipresent I
think) has the ability to import text files with titles (think about end
credits in a movie).

[sbt]

In article <008ae5e8$0$18380$c3e...@news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei...@vaxination.ca> wrote:

That functionality isn't in iMovie/iDVD, but is (somewhat clumsily)
available via QuickTime Pro. Just use the File>Open File command to
open the files and start copying and pasting them all into one movie.

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Spenser

[Tim Murray]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:28:33 -0400, waterfall wrote:
> Is there a way to "capture" or record a text file, an rtf file, an HTML
> file, a pdf file, a tiff file or any other format that text can be
> converted to as a movie and then transfer it to a CD or DVD using Quick
> Time, iMovie, iDVD, Keynote or some other Mac software?
>

> Basically what I'd like to do is record a long "short-story" to disc so
> that it can be played back on any home DVD player and automatically stop
> at each page - then the reader can press the arrow key on the remote to
> move to the next page. I'd rather not have it in a constant scroll so
> that they have to pause. And I don't want to go out and have to buy new
> software - so mainly, I'm asking if Apple has included that feature in
> OS X, iLife or iWork. It would be nice to be able to choose the font
> size and color, the background, include main and chapter menus, etc.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.

I'm thinking it's a bunch of one-item menus chained together. I'm going to
ponder this.

[Tim Murray]

Both iDVD and iMovie have a slideshow feature. For example, take a bunch of
Keynote slides and save to images. Then import the images into an iDVD
slideshow with manual control, and you have a DVD slideshow. Problem maybe
that text might be so hot, but...