AIR QUOTES: The film!
Turn Your Photos into Movies — This is a fascinating concept that would work well in Asia where people take far too many photos. This assumes that if you have 50 pictures of grandma you have enough data to create a character that you can walk around. Fascinating.
Researchers from the lab in Beijing have developed a system that can take your still photographs and automatically convert them into motion clips.
“A single photograph contains extremely rich content,” said Xian-Sheng Hua, the lead researcher on the project. “We wanted to use this content to build entertaining videos from still photos.”
In the Photo2Video project, the researchers used three key steps to automatically convert photos into video, taking their cues from traditional filmmaking techniques. The steps are story generation, framing scheme, and video composition.
Before completing these steps, the system selects a set of photos to include in the video, by browsing your archive of photos and clustering the images. It identifies photos that belong together, such as photos from the same event or trip, by analyzing semantic features.
This appears to follow the old multimedia gimmicks here when Win 95 appeared. They have this MSN Found search gimmick now. You can create a search opera along with fake Microsoft characters on the MSN Found site. Life in the search box. I have software now that can make a movie from stills. Think outside the box or get boxed in I guess.
In Mark Christensen’s “Boxhead Revolution”, the first impression of a completely hallucinatory experience gives way to a more familiar-though persistently cockeyed-version of that old sci-fi standby of the rebel vs. dictatorial future society…Opening graphic notes the 1973 launch of the Voyager satellite, containing an audio recording of various sounds and music from around the world.
I was thinking HP here. Here’s the link for the review.
http://www.findartfilms.com/review2.html
Taking still pictures and auto aranging them for motion huu. I wonder whats the difference between this and creating a GIF!!!!!
From the article, it sounds like an artificial Ken Burns: zooms and pans on individual photos to create the illusion of animation.
X-BOXHEAD ZOMBIES
A handheld camera roams through a strange future world where Carly Fiorina, encased in a bulbous container, gives birth in public arenas and all citizens are forced to sear masks. Those who have bees in a grimy XBox factory, bossed around by a nasty foreman-dictator Bill Gates, whose realm of control appears to extend behind the factory’s confines. Across America X-Boxheads are killing themselves and becoming zombies on orders from HAL, the central computer in Redmond sending signals to networked HiPods. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Carly Fiorina, co-founders of MusicMatrix make billions of dollars while X-Boxheads are dropping like flies wearing earbuds playing world music composed by outsource drones from India, Taiwan and China.
BOXHEAD REVOLUTION
“The premise is simple enough. On a planet much like Earth, but less advanced, an evil scumbag called The Controller has taken hold of society. Identity has been wiped out, and everyone walks around wearing masks on their faces. Those deemed to be unsociable, for a variety of reasons, find themselves in a sort of free prison, their heads enclosed in a small box with mesh covering, so the prisoners can still be productive members of the workforce.” Review.
This movie appears to be the social model for http://msnfound.com/
MSN changed the look, the old look is here http://compactURL.com/srip
Gee, sounds a lot like what I’ve been doing for some time now.
As a serious amateur photographer, I often photograph weddings for people then produce the stills into a movie. I burn them onto a DVD then give it to the couple as a wedding gift.
One of the first things I learned in photography was to take a lot of shots. That increases the probability of getting something good. Having several similar shots, it became easy to fit them together into a slide show. Using zooms and pans the effect becomes very moving (pun intended). Themes and mini stories can be made. The finished product becomes much more fun to watch then flipping through a bunch of still pictures.
If this can be another tool to add to my hobby, I will look forward to it.
Doing some quick searching though, it appears that Photo2Video is a common name for both software and commercially converting stills to DVD.
I have done this in Premiere. It’s not magic or anything.
Why do we need it when PhotoStory is available ?