SlideShow - picture transitions

leginnwot wrote on 7/9/2006, 3:50 AM
I only set up my version of 'Platinum studio yesterday, so I'm very green on a lot of this. However, I have been able to very quickly build a great 400 slide plus, menu driven presentation in DVD Architect.

My problem is that I can not work out how to do even the simplest of transitions into, out of or between my pictures. It appears the word 'transition' does not even appead in the online help. All I wanted was a standard 2sec dissolve I could ripple between pictures and a fade to blach at the end. The sister product shipped with DVDA seems packed with zillions of transitions, but my project is now setup in DVDA and will not even open in Movie Studio...

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Chienworks wrote on 7/9/2006, 4:58 AM
DVDA doesn't do transitions. If you want transitions you have to start in Vegas Studio.
leginnwot wrote on 7/9/2006, 6:40 AM
Thanks, although you've only confirmed what I guess I already knew. It does beg the question, "Why put the picture compilation feature in and then not give you any facilities to actually create something worth looking at? - but I guess I'm too new here to even think such a question...

I'm now looking at Movie Studio...
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/9/2006, 7:16 AM
It's jsut for slideshows. Slieshows don't have any transitions, FX, etc.

If you use Vegas, you can go to Tools -> Prefences -> Editing & you cna adjust the default still length & transition length so when you drop/drag all your photos in to Vegas it works perfectly.
Chienworks wrote on 7/9/2006, 7:37 AM
A Picture Compilation is not a video. The images are stored on the DVD as single pictures rather than as a stream of video. The DVD player knows to play them back one at a time and then move on to the next. The only way to get transitions in this situation is if the hardware of the DVD player produced them itself.
leginnwot wrote on 7/9/2006, 11:03 AM
Thanks to the two posters who took the time to respond to a newbie!

I think I dived into a project without really knowing what either of the tools were for - assuming rather too much.

I have now got my first segment into Vegas, rendered it for DVDA and taken it into my original DVDA project - although its lost its sound somewhere along the way - it looks great - tell me I don't have to do the sound separately as well!

Sorry this is probably not a DVDA issue. An mpeg I created the same way is also soundless...

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/9/2006, 3:20 PM
the DVDA mpeg templates don't render audio in the mpeg file. You need to render eigther an AC3 or WAV seperatly.
laura-k wrote on 7/12/2006, 5:57 PM
Hey -
I don't know my software all that great but i do alott of -I believe
the way to refer to it for this post would be photo mantages with vegas-
I put in all the pictures with a 2 and half to 3 second overlap for transitions then i drag in my music and go back and drop in my transitions titles credit roll for poems ect. and then i always make sure i check that i reduce interlace flicker -then i render as mpeg 2
and then take that and use it in DVDA-
Not sure if this is quite the workflow others use but i started and just winged it-and Its been working well
laura
Any corrections or help always welcome