Automatic transitions for slideshows

briggins wrote on 10/24/2003, 10:44 AM
Does anyone know of a way to automatically insert transitions when dragging multiple jpg images from the media pool to the video track? For example, if I have 500 images that I would like to turn into a movie, how do I tell Screenblast to automatically insert a 2 second crossfade transition between images? As it is, I have to select every image and drag it to the left to overlay the previous image to get the desire crossfade. For a few images this isn't an issue. For 500 images this is unacceptable.

Thanks.

Bruce

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Pick wrote on 10/26/2003, 1:45 AM
I'd like to know the answer to this question as well.

And add another question: When dropping in a bunch of images, like briggins is asking, how do you tell VF of Screenblast to make all images 2 seconds or 5 seconds long???
Pick
IanG wrote on 10/26/2003, 9:40 AM
The answer to the first question is you can't. The second one's here.

Ian G.
briggins wrote on 11/3/2003, 12:49 PM
IanG, thanks. I was afraid that was the case. This seems like such an obvious oversight that it's almost as if the engineers never used (or really intended for) the application to create slide shows. For a large number of images with transitions, I would call Screenblast unusable. Which is too bad since it's so great with video.

Bruce
djcc wrote on 11/3/2003, 8:31 PM
For pure slide shows, there are a number of utilities out there that will more than meet your expectations. Proshow Gold, Memories on TV, Pix2EXE, and MySlideShow come to mind as possible suggestions (there are at least another dozen competent applications).

Hit DP Review and check out the forum entitled "PC Tools" for excellent information regarding still slide shows.

MS is an outstanding application from what I have seen of it - but you have to keep in mind "fit for purpose".... an application with 3 video and 3 audio tracks is not likely to have still image slide shows as a major feature, although it does them quite nicely IMHO.
briggins wrote on 11/5/2003, 9:17 PM
Thanks for the tip. The reason I'd like to get MS to do it is precisely for the reason you state: it is an outstanding application and I don't want to have to use anything else. If it just had this one little thing...

Arcsoft ShowBiz will do it quite nicely but I haven't had a chance to check the quality of the output compared to what MS might do.

Thanks again. -- Bruce