Chienworks,

Yeah, I know no one is going to watch them. This was an afterthought. I am charging a minimal price and adding a CD in the works would start costing me money. I want to keep it simple for those who are DVD challenged (and believe me, they do exist) so I am thinking I will let DVDA make the slideshow for me.


I thought about putting it in an extras folder, but the DVD challenged still won't get it.

Do you know if it allows you to fast forward or go to next before the timer changes it?

Thanks
Dave T2

300 slides at 6 seconds per slide totals 30 minutes. This isn't very long at all if the subject material holds your attention (for example, all those photos you took at the topless beach last week 8^)

This type of a project is exactly what I was doing when I created my Timeline Tools Vegas Add-In. It is perfectly suited for this type of task. With a few simple mouse clicks you can:

1. Set the length of all your slides.
2. Set the Overlap, or Gap between your slides depending on how you want it to look,
3. Add random Transition effects to Overlapped slides.
4. Add Fade In/Out to slides that employ gaps.
5. Set the Slide aspect to Match the Project output aspect. And choose to do this to All photos, or only Wide photos (landscape mode photos).

And after you've performed all of the above, if you decide to re-arrange the Events on the Timeline because you decided to have all the pictures of Grandpa grouped together, this is also easily accomplished with a few mouse clicks.

For my new slideshow projects, this Add-In has saved me hours of tedious manual work.

Gary ...

Gary,

Thanks for the advice. I have looked at your timeline tools, but this is the first time I had done a slideshow this way. Usually it is a theme, but in this case, it is just the collection of as many photos as I could gather from people at the reunion. I used the features of Vegas to lay on the timeline with overlap for dissolves and did break it into three videos so each have about 130 pics or so.

But I do think the feature of moving them around might help. They are grouping alphabeteically which makes the people show up grouped together so I might play with that a bit.

Thanks again.

Dave T2

>(for example, all those photos you took at the topless beach last week 8^) This type of a project is exactly what I was doing when I created my Timeline Tools Vegas Add-In.

Gary, was it really an advantage to spend less time manipulating those topless beach photos ;-) ?

/jerry

OH CRAP !?!?!?!

What Have I done!

For group watching, it is best, I think, to have automatic step on after a certain time, say 5 seconds. Then you could have music as well if you wish. However if I am the only viewer, I would like an indefinite time on each slide, and the ability to manually step on when I am ready, dependent on the slide's content. Something like a Powerpoint presentation.

Leawo make a Powerpoint to DVD converter with this capability. I think it works by turning each slide into a menu page. The disadvantage was that it superimposed the previous/next buttons on the slide. There may be a way to hide them, but if so, I don't know how. Also, can you have 300 menu pages in a DVD?

Then there is the issue of captions for each slide, but maybe for a reunion, these would be unnecessary. I like captions to not obscure the image.

I have yet to find a simple program to create the equivalent of the old photo album, where you can turn pages at your leisure and read comments if you so wish. I tried using Vegas for this, where each slide had a chapter mark, so that you could skip quickly if you wanted, but the skip was so sluggish on my player that I might just as well have let it step on by itself anyway. However, it was a lot of work to create. I used Vegasaur to insert the file name and shooting date automatically. I can't remember now whether it also inserted user comments from the EXIF header as well.

Peter,

Thanks. I just made it 3 videos in Vegas. I added the names using Photoshop.

You can hide the menu buttons by using transparent colors. I have done that before for shorter slide shows. Use Right and Left for next and previous and up for return to menu.

I am not going to put music on, my first slide will tell them to play their favorite music and enjoy the pictures.

Dave T2

I am bumping the content of this thread to forum of DVDArchitect Pro since the topic is really a matter of general interest to DVD production.

Doug