That was very effective. To make it totally authentic, you need to have a few slides show up sideways, upside-down, or reversed.

That is totally brilliant. I like the way you think. 8^)

A very slight exaggerated motion blur as one goes out and the new one slides in. Maybe a slight de-focus and quick refocus too?

I like those ideas, thanks.

Using the suggestions given by John and Grazie, here's a second pass at a retro slideshow.

I like the defocus, but maybe a little less and quicker? Somewhere between what you have and a "blink" of an eye? That'll be the SU length of a blink.....

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I was just kidding about the upside down slides ... they were pretty much a guaranteed event and were part of the "fun." However, if you are doing this for actual exhibition, I think you did a really great job in version one capturing the essence of the show without introducing annoyances that most people won't appreciate. I also think the digital transitions (defocus) between slides takes away from the feel that you so expertly created in the first version.

This all goes to prove that, in most cases, you are better listening to your inner voice than the babble you get from others (like me!).

Babble babble babble......

"This all goes to prove that, in most cases, you are better listening to your inner voice than the babble you get from others (like me!)"

< smile > Actually I really did like the upside down slide suggestion. I was one of those suckers that bought into the Bell + Howell Slide Cube projector idea in the early 1970's.. Mine also jammed up regularly and dumped out my slides when I tried to fix the jam. So lots of my slides ended up end-up. In a way, your suggestion lets me re-create an unanticipated side-effect I was used to seeing - aah the good old days.

I also agree the blurring effect was a bit too much. I've gone back to a simple 6 frame fade In and out on the leading and trailing edge of each Event. Finally I've set the Image aspect to match the project aspect to fill up the video frames. I believe this last version is the best.

Gary, very beautiful and not a little haunting too.

Grazie

Almost perfect - I think there needs to be one in there with backwards printing though :-)

You just took me back to my childhood though !!

mikey

Hey ddm that was an amazing show. How did you get that amazing color saturation through out that slide show. Was your source media that good or did you do a lot of color correction in post?

Thanks. No color correction, really. The source material was all my photos from a Nikon D200 with a Sigma 50 150mm 2.8 lens. The color was greatly helped by the lighting. My daughter was in a competitive show choir all thru high school and the high school she went to had (has) one of the best show choirs in the US. Great lighting and costumes set decoration etc, some really talented people. I knew nothing about show choirs when she entered 9th grade. I was pretty much an expert by the time she graduated. I always took along my camera to keep myself occupied and had a great time learning to take decent shots in an extremely difficult enviornment. Very low light to blazing spotlights, kids moving all the time, always being at the end of a long lens etc etc. Challenging but lots of fun. Took thousands of pictures over 4 years. I was asked by some of the other parents to put together a slide show of my photos for the end of the year awards presentation. Had a blast doing that and it was a huge hit with the kids, tried to get them all in there.

The issue with having slides backwards/upside down in a digital slide show is that it wasn't done on purpose when it was a slide in a projector. It was an "oops" moment. Now it's more like buying a car without power steering that was on purpose not put in when it should of been and saying it's nostalgic. It's not, it was a mistake.

A better way to make slideshows where people can talk about the slides might be to do each slide as a new video on a DVD and have a transition video with the fade in/out. It would be more realistic in that you could manually move between the slides.

But if we're going basic, skip Vegas all together, use power point and a digital projector with a desktop. The noise is equivalent to the old projector + fan. :)