What is it?
It creates videos of a guy presenting your flickr image stream like this:
It reads out the name and the descriptions and points out any notes added to the images.
How to I use it?
- Install and run moviestorm (400Mb download) to check it works. You have to sign up on the website to get it started.
- Upload any pictures you want to flickr (you might have to sign up with flickr)
- Find the Stormr source code here (sorry no binary any more).
- Enter your flickr username, select the set you want, then follow the instructions to start moviestorm, and load the newly created movie.
- At this point you can play with the presentation in moviestorm. To render it to video click on this button

Credits:
- flickrj for a great flickr bridge
- piddles for the audio
- Matthias Pfisterer for some audio concatenation stuff
Source (LGPL'd of course)
Bugs
- Deal with html links/ markup looking funny
- Fix the subtitles so they can't be white on white.
- Fix the compression artefacts on the images
- Large movie's (30+ image sets) will be usable and maybe crash Stormr
- Doesn't work on Java 1.5
Development notes:
I've taken the philosophy that it should work with the base pack and be fairly simple. I might put some fancy camerawork in, but I leave using assets from other addon packs to the user.
It's an example of a bridge application - pulling the printed image into the video age. There's a lot of other content these things could be built for very easily.
Flickr note's are public - anyone can add one, so becareful what ends up in your video... ;) You can turn this feature off in flickr's settings.
Here are some future ideas:
- Add crowds to read out comments, and point to areas of the image they've commented on.
- Add some indicator of how many views each image has
- Add a license (Copyright, Creative commons etc...) license management system. Perhaps stormr should old work on CC derivative works allowed (or laxer) input images?
- Add a text to speach system (although these always sound pants?)
- Port it to the cloud and allow it to download a zipped movie to your computer.
- Find a way to add web links to the video file, even if someone's got a patent on it.
- Figure out a way to get out of that damn volcano that moviestorm land is in...
- Having more content in the base pack to work with - just some background noises that aren't outside would make a difference.
- Shortfuze providing a service to render videos for me
Same video on different sites fyi
More development videos:
lighting now in (will be available ~Friday):