For my Masters degree in Teaching I am required to do a Slowmation project for my ICT in Education subject. The idea is to use this as a way to teach kids but, of course, we have to show we can do it ourselves. Now here's the catch, they recommend we use Windows Movie Maker or some Apple application, the name escapes me at the moment. Because I don't personally use Windows, although I have seen Movie Maker being used a couple of weeks back and it seems to be an ok piece of kit, I was wondering what Linux programs do the same thing basically using the same methods I saw when the kids I worked with were using Windows MovieMaker.

I am asking here because I have never done anything like this before and really don't know the first thing about video editing. I am using Debian, currently Wheezy, with MATE DE although I do switch to Gnome on occasion. Any recomendations greatly appreciated.

ffmpeg and mencoder both will make a 2fps video out of .jpg files, with or without sound and subtitles.

I looked at this example
http://slowmation.uow.edu.au/cgi-bin...0&videoID=1111

The audio is no problem, just make your audio recording (read from script) while watching the video that you made, then put it together with the video.

Subtitles are no problem, a text files indexed to the video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip

The video, make a story board with what you want to happen, make your drawings in a graphics app, label them sequentially, then make a video out of them.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en...nc-images.html
http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/C...0from%20images

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
http://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg

That's one suggestion, there are more image-video editing apps.

http://www.linux.com/news/software/a...-video-editors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...iting_software

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Thanks for that teckk, I am thinking of a jigsaw puzzle or maybe a rubics cube video, take a shot of each change in order. If I had more time I'd do a solar system with each planet rotating to get day and night effect while revolving around the sun. Unfortunately I have other assignments and daily life to also work through so the solar system idea is out. Maybe I'll do that during a holiday break as another teaching tool.