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Slide show with transitions, audio, zoom/pan?
Sorry for yet another request for a slide show program, but I have not
found the right application yet. I want to create slide shows with: - Adjustable timing between slides. - Audio in the background. Ability to easily sync the audio to specific slides. - Transitions between slides. The more choices the better, but at least a few basic things like fade (disolve), slide left and right, etc. - Ability to zoom and pan across a slide (and rotate, as well). This seems to be known as the "Ken Burns" effect. It lets you provide "motion" in the show, pan across a high resolution panorama, etc. - Ability to rotate the picture when shown, without modifying the original file. - I do not want to create video files. I want to see my slides at the full resolution of my monitor (say 1600x1200). The ability to create video would be nice to have, but that should not be the only output option. - Works with a system with dual monitors. It doesn't have to show the slides across both monitors, in fact I don't want it to. But some slide show programs are confused by the dual monitor setup, and show only half the slide on the left monitor. - Good navigation during the show. You should be able to pause, move back and forth between slides, go to a specific slide, show the filename of the slide, turn on and off caption or other descriptive information. Also zoom and pan would be nice. - The ability to import a list of slides from a file (csv, xml, a database, whatever). I want to choose the slides and order them in another program, export the list of filenames, and then import them into the slide show program. I have tried a number of programs, including MyAlbum, ProShowGold, MemoriesToTV, MySlideShow, IMatch, etc. The best seemed to be ProShow Gold, but it can't import a list of slides, and the navigation during the show was poor - mouse only, no keyboard, only forward and back (no jumping to a specific slide), no information about the slide avaialble. I am also unhappy with the ProShow Gold license agreement, which specifically permits them to send information from my computer to them. Any suggestions for applications that can do the above? Thanks, Terry |
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Photo Story 2 which is part of Microsoft Plus will do some of your stuff.
You can make VCDs with it, and I think that it costs about $20. "Terry" wrote in message ... Sorry for yet another request for a slide show program, but I have not found the right application yet. I want to create slide shows with: - Adjustable timing between slides. - Audio in the background. Ability to easily sync the audio to specific slides. - Transitions between slides. The more choices the better, but at least a few basic things like fade (disolve), slide left and right, etc. - Ability to zoom and pan across a slide (and rotate, as well). This seems to be known as the "Ken Burns" effect. It lets you provide "motion" in the show, pan across a high resolution panorama, etc. - Ability to rotate the picture when shown, without modifying the original file. - I do not want to create video files. I want to see my slides at the full resolution of my monitor (say 1600x1200). The ability to create video would be nice to have, but that should not be the only output option. - Works with a system with dual monitors. It doesn't have to show the slides across both monitors, in fact I don't want it to. But some slide show programs are confused by the dual monitor setup, and show only half the slide on the left monitor. - Good navigation during the show. You should be able to pause, move back and forth between slides, go to a specific slide, show the filename of the slide, turn on and off caption or other descriptive information. Also zoom and pan would be nice. - The ability to import a list of slides from a file (csv, xml, a database, whatever). I want to choose the slides and order them in another program, export the list of filenames, and then import them into the slide show program. I have tried a number of programs, including MyAlbum, ProShowGold, MemoriesToTV, MySlideShow, IMatch, etc. The best seemed to be ProShow Gold, but it can't import a list of slides, and the navigation during the show was poor - mouse only, no keyboard, only forward and back (no jumping to a specific slide), no information about the slide avaialble. I am also unhappy with the ProShow Gold license agreement, which specifically permits them to send information from my computer to them. Any suggestions for applications that can do the above? Thanks, Terry |
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ProShow Gold does all of the thing you want & more! Google them & you'll
find their site. |
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jbruceb wrote:
Photo Story 2 which is part of Microsoft Plus will do some of your stuff. You can make VCDs with it, and I think that it costs about $20. This originally looked to me like it only created video files, but now that I look again, it's not clear. I'll download the LE version (demo) and see how it looks. Thanks. Terry |
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Jimmy G wrote:
ProShow Gold does all of the thing you want & more! Google them & you'll find their site. No, it doesn't. As I said in my original post: The best seemed to be ProShow Gold, but it can't import a list of slides, and the navigation during the show was poor - mouse only, no keyboard, only forward and back (no jumping to a specific slide), no information about the slide avaialble. I am also unhappy with the ProShow Gold license agreement, which specifically permits them to send information from my computer to them. If I'm wrong about any of this, please let me know. Terry |
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Slide show with transitions, audio, zoom/pan?
Terry wrote:
jbruceb wrote: Photo Story 2 which is part of Microsoft Plus will do some of your stuff. You can make VCDs with it, and I think that it costs about $20. This originally looked to me like it only created video files, but now that I look again, it's not clear. I'll download the LE version (demo) and see how it looks. Thanks. Yep, it's video only. Max 640x480 resolution. Max 150 slides (why would they put such a limit in?!). Those are show-stopping limitations. Besides that, it does not rotate slides. WMV format only. Poor runtime controls, no filename display. The LE (demo) version doesn't let you control transitions, zoom and pan, so I can't tell how good (or bad) that is in the Plus version. Terry |
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Terry wrote in news:ivsde05jsc27964tvvm9hultsk5rl7p6rs@
4ax.com: I have tried a number of programs, including MyAlbum, FYI, the next version of MyAlbum has transitions. I use the beta and it works. -- Onno |
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Onno wrote:
Terry wrote in news:ivsde05jsc27964tvvm9hultsk5rl7p6rs@ 4ax.com: I have tried a number of programs, including MyAlbum, FYI, the next version of MyAlbum has transitions. I use the beta and it works. That's good to know. I had noticed that MyAlbum had a transition in the object model, but it seemed like nothing connected to it. Now I know why! Transitions would make MyAlbum pretty good, and I have to admit the price is right (free). It is still missing some things: - No zoom and pan across the image. - Setting timing for individual slides is not easily done (only with scripts, no user interface to do this). - No import a list of slides - It doesn't work with my two monitor setup (Win XP), it detects it as one monitor, so shows the image spread across the two monitors. There are no controls that affect this. Please correct me if I've missed something. Thanks for the info. Do you have any idea when the next version will be available? Or is the beta open? Terry |
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Hi,
right now the best Slide Show program that we are using in our digital photography club is ProShow Gold. I lets you do transitions, control the time for each slide, syncronizes music and voice over, and has fade in and fade out for sound. It is not very intuitive but if you take some time to experiment you can do some pretty fancy stuff. Also it lets you burn to CD and DVD. Rosita |
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Terry wrote in
: Onno wrote: Terry wrote in news:ivsde05jsc27964tvvm9hultsk5rl7p6rs@ 4ax.com: I have tried a number of programs, including MyAlbum, FYI, the next version of MyAlbum has transitions. I use the beta and it works. [snip] Transitions would make MyAlbum pretty good, and I have to admit the price is right (free). It is still missing some things: - No zoom and pan across the image. Press Z and the left/right/up/down buttons. It can be done with the mouse too. - Setting timing for individual slides is not easily done (only with scripts, no user interface to do this). In the beta this is possible without a script. - No import a list of slides Why do you want to do that? It's rather easy to make an album with MyAlbum. - It doesn't work with my two monitor setup (Win XP), it detects it as one monitor, so shows the image spread across the two monitors. There are no controls that affect this. In settings (File - settings) you can tell MyAlbum which monitor to use. It has a Monitors tab. If it doesn't work, you can contact the author. He is very helpful. Do you have any idea when the next version will be available? No. But I think the beta works fine Or is the beta open? Don't think so. The author, Pierre Meindre, gave me a download link for the beta, because I needed it to make the Dutch translation. The link is not on his site. Even if the link still works, I don't think he would want me to disclose it in a NG. -- Onno |
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