Convert a RealMedia slide show to Quicktime

	Convert a RealMedia slide show to Quicktime by David Taylor on Feb 13, 2009 at 11:27:04 pm I've got a bunch of teaching slide shows that are in RealMedia player format. I've got an mp3 file, all the slides as individual files and a xml like file that has all the timing info, like this: I'd like to turn these into something I can watch on my iPod. I haven't had any luck with conversion programs. Now I understand how to create a Quicktime slide show, but that just makes every slide the same duration, which is not what I want. I have FCP which I could bring the elements into and edit them, but that would be too time consuming. If I could somehow convert the xml file to a EDL that FCP or some other program could understand, that would automate the process and make it a bit less painful. Any ideas? Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Convert a RealMedia slide show to Quicktime by David Taylor on Feb 13, 2009 at 11:35:03 pm Here's the code, did not display correctly in previous post <crossfade start="0:00.0" duration="1.0" target="1" dstx="0" dsty="0" dstw="720" dsth="540" aspect="true" /> <crossfade start="2:30.0" duration="1.0" target="2" dstx="0" dsty="0" dstw="720" dsth="540" aspect="true" /> <crossfade start="2:38.0" duration="1.0" target="3" dstx="0" dsty="0" dstw="720" dsth="540" aspect="true" /> <crossfade start="3:01.0" duration="1.0" target="4" dstx="0" dsty="0" dstw="720" dsth="540" aspect="true" /> <crossfade start="3:25.0" duration="1.0" target="5" dstx="0" dsty="0" dstw="720" dsth="540" aspect="true" /> DT Motion Pictures http://www.davetaylormp.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Convert a RealMedia slide show to Quicktime by David Taylor on Feb 14, 2009 at 2:13:38 am I just spent a few hours fooling around with batch lists in FCP. I was able to take the xml file and extract the time triggers for the slides, I then took it into excel and calculated the duration of each slide. I then put that into an exported batch list of all the stills. I converted the mp3 audio and dropped that into a sequence. I then dropped all the slides into the sequence and they appear to match up perfectly. Of course that was way too much work. I'm thinking maybe the best answer is just using a screen capture program to grab it off realplayer in real time, yuck. DT Motion Pictures http://www.davetaylormp.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Convert a RealMedia slide show to Quicktime by Franklin McMahon on Feb 18, 2009 at 4:43:11 pm What about screen capture? A good capture program that does video will grab high quality because they are just slides along with the sound. After if you want to edit, just strip out the audio and load the video and sound separate into an editing program to fine tune. Other option is Quicktime Pro...it allows cut and paste and editing and would do what you want. Frank ___________________________ Franklin McMahon / Host CreativeCow.net PODCAST Creative Cow Podcast Page / Creative Cow Podcast in iTunes / FranklinMcMahon.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index