{"id":578,"date":"2013-02-09T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=578"},"modified":"2013-02-09T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:45:34","slug":"storyboard-and-gifboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/storyboard-and-gifboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Storyboard and Gifboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a link from somewhere in my RSS reader, probably hacker news, to Storyboard: Read your TV and Movies.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Storyboard creates pdfs from movies with subtitles, one page per subtitle.<\/p>\n

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Storyboard transforms your videos into other types of media.<\/h2>\n

Make a GIF of a favorite joke from a TV show, or make a book out of a movie you love.
\nStarting with subtitles included in the video file or available online, Storyboard<\/em> scans a video for scene changes and is able to put together a PDF that you can put
\nonto your phone or e-reader, letting you read instead of watch.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Gifboard<\/em>, another program included with Storyboard<\/em>, can use those same subtitles to create a GIF based on a line of dialog in the video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

from: Storyboard: Read your TV and Movies.<\/a><\/p>\n

This would seem to be right up DS106’s street.<\/p>\n

Getting started<\/h3>\n

Storyboard is a commandline, ruby, application and the installation and running needs you to use the terminal. I do not spend a lot of time in the terminal but can manage a few things. StoryBoard also need a few other things in place first. Most of these can be installed using Homebrew!<\/a> I mostly followed the instructions on the storyboard<\/a> page. I got a fair number of errors, needed to install other things etc but managed to guess my way through.<\/p>\n

Giffing<\/h3>\n

The bit I was interested in was creating gifs for movies. This is how it works. I did a quick search on my mac and found a Movie, Smultronstallet aka Wild Strawberries, that had a subtitle .srt file.<\/p>\n

In the terminal I went to this folder, and issued the command:<\/p>\n

gifboard -t \"kiss\" Smultronstallet.avi<\/code><\/p>\n

This then presented me with a choice of subtitle tracks, and after I choose one, a list of subtitles with the word kiss in it, I choose one, after a bit of messaging in the terminal window, my gif was created.<\/p>\n

\"Smultronstallet-kiss1\"<\/p>\n

It turns out that some AVI files have the subtitles incorporated in them and gifboard can handle them too.<\/p>\n

The quality of the gifs is not as good as many of the ones I’ve seen produced by ds106ista and the files sizes seem big, I shrunk some by deleting every second frame and increasing the delay, others are improved by simply deletign a frame or two.<\/p>\n

I see occasional errors but mostly repeating the command in the terminal seems to fix this.<\/p>\n

AS to how useful this is I am not sure, the storyboard option produces and interesting alt view of a whole movie. Gifboard is another tool that some ds106 folk might enjoy playing with.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple more gifs, any guesses as to the movies?<\/p>\n

\"grunt\" \"kill_us_all\" \"kill_rich\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Here are my storyboard install notes<\/a>\u00a0which show some of the problems I had (just a txt file).<\/p>\n

\"footsteps\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a link from somewhere in my RSS reader, probably hacker news, to Storyboard: Read your TV and Movies.. Storyboard creates pdfs from movies with subtitles, one page per subtitle. Storyboard transforms your videos into other types of media. Make a GIF of a favorite joke from a TV show, or make a book … Continue reading “Storyboard and Gifboard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animatedgif"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-9k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}