3 # This script will make a text based intro movie of 5 seconds lenght 
   8   # make the source image: 
   9   convert xc
:black 
-resize 640x480
! -antialias -gravity "Center" -fill white 
-font Helvetica 
-pointsize 34 -annotate 0 @
$filename "$filename"000.jpg
 
  11   # link it 125 times for 5 seconds: 
  12   for ((i
=1;i
<125;i
+=1)); do 
  13     ln -s "$filename"000.jpg 
"$filename"`printf "%03d" "$i"`.jpg
 
  17   mencoder mf
://*.jpg 
-mf w
=640:h
=480:fps
=25:type=jpg 
-ovc lavc 
-lavcopts vcodec
=mpeg1video 
-oac copy 
-o "$filename".avi
 
  18 #  mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=640:h=480:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc raw -oac copy -o "$filename".avi 
  20 # clean up after ourselves: 
  21   for ((i
=1;i
<125;i
+=1)); do 
  22     rm "$filename"`printf "%03d" "$i"`.jpg
 
  26   echo "Usage: mkintro.sh textfile" && exit