The Giampaoli blog is nice. He begins with a set of RAW files, runs them through darktable, then a perl script to adjust brightness, then uses blender to generate the movie. Darktable and Blender are both available as Fedora packages.
A more recent suggestion is to use ffmpeg as follows:
ffmpeg -i img*.jpg output.mpeg
Tom's Digital Photography Info / tom@mmto.org