Community Newsletter: Q&A: 1/14/05 Slide shows on DVD
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Movies and jpeg in the same slide shows
by lou_do - 1/14/05 1:37 PM In reply to: Can mpeg movies be mixed with jpeg in the same slide shows ? by ikim20012Isaac, yes, you can mix video and photos together, with Pinnacle Liquid Edition. I recently did a travel video, and added stills to it. I even used a few stills used as backgrounds in transisions between video scenes, using Hollywood FX plugin. After the video, I did a section of slides made from scanned 35 mm photos. So they mix very well with Liquid Edition. The video ended and it went right into the slide show.
mixing jpg+mpeg with VideoStudio
by gzfraud - 1/16/05 4:21 PM In reply to: Can mpeg movies be mixed with jpeg in the same slide shows ? by ikim20012Issac - It's actually pretty easy to mix stills and video. I use uLead VideoStudio 8, but they all work pretty much the same way. For my in-laws 55th annivesary, I created a dvd with 400 pics from time they are little kids. I had my wife and her brother and sister pics out 5 pics each that were special to them. I then video taped them holding up the picture and telling their memories. Had about 30 minutes of video (I just hung a dark blue bed sheet for background and bought a $25 external mic from Radio Shack). Since I didn't have time to scan all the photos, I just bought a 12"x12" piece of black felt, glued it the a piece of cardboard, set my 4 megapixel Kodak dx6490 on a tripod and set the camera on macro (closeup) and took pics of the prints.
I drug the pics by date in the VideoStudio Timeline. Then I split the video into the segments by picture and inserted it following the pic the memory was related to. 55 minutes total. Everyone was crying by th end. I gave each family a copy of the dvd.
Next up is my 86-year old monthers video memories.
One thing I will advise. If you're going to do video, get a fast, 7200 rpm, hard drive. And don't do anything else while your recording from your camera or burning the disc. You'll get gaps. I'm running a 2.5ghz, 1 gig ram, and 2 hard drives: 80 (programs) and 160 (pics and video and mp3s)
Email if more questions. . . gdz
Kodak 6490 Digital Camera and DVD Editing Software
by wshaulis - 8/15/05 1:30 PM In reply to: mixing jpg+mpeg with VideoStudio by gzfraudI have a Kodak 6490 digital camera that captures video into .mov files. Do I have to convert this to use in DVD editing software or can anyone suggest DVD editing software that will let me burn jpeg and mpeg files together in the same show and convert the .mov files from my camera?
Dvd Slide Shows
by lekzo - 1/14/05 7:36 PM In reply to: Slide shows on DVD by lou_doThere is a progam I know of that you can get the effects you are looking for. Dvd X-show by 321 studious, but I think they are Now out of bussiness using the name of Jambalya brands!!
Making slide-shows for DVD on my Apple G4
by brunwin - 1/17/05 1:12 AM In reply to: Slide shows on DVD by lou_doI am just wondering if anyone has experience with preparing DVD-slideshows on his/her Apple computer. In system OSX we all join the fun of having 'I-Photo', but my (lack of) experience doesn't allow me to burn photographs from there into a suitable format for DVD. With Nero, on my PC, it's no problem, though.
Pinnacle Studios programs
by tallguy53 - 1/17/05 7:12 PM In reply to: Slide shows on DVD by lou_doI haven't heard of the Pinnacle Liquid Edition Pro, but I've seen some very impressive DVD photo with music presentations made with Pinnacle Studio. Anybody else every use any of the Pinnacle products? Thanks, Mike
Pinnacle fanatic
by gbwaga - 2/8/05 3:02 PM In reply to: Pinnacle Studios programs by tallguy53I've been using Pinnacle for both my video and photo projects...the software is quite user-friendly and has great features! Cool! I truly enjoy using Pinnacle, great stuff! Btw, Sonic DVD is also great, but features are limited. Great for novice users. 
pinnacle studio 9
by wkkmschalk - 3/4/06 1:56 PM In reply to: Pinnacle Studios programs by tallguy53I have use this program to create slide show movies for many family members. My daughters prefer mine over the professional videos they had done. Very easy to use and fairly easy to import your own music backgrounds.
What are slides
by RVaughan - 1/21/05 6:11 AM In reply to: Slide shows on DVD by lou_doLou, from the posts I have read, you seem the most likely to answer this question.
1.What is a slide?
In anticipation that I know the answer, I have a followup.
2. What is the best and least expensive method to get 35MM slides to digital photos/slides.
Overview: I have read this thread with growing interest. Several years ago I photographed 500 photos to 35MM slides thinking that, at the time, that would be the best way to preserve them and to later convert to digital as digital advanced. The advancements have not seemed to help me get from film to digital. Once in digital, I now will definitely go the DVD route with the tips as this thread shares.
Thanks for suggestions. Cost is a factor and once I convert the 500, I have no further need for the equipment.
resolution limited by video editor
by doug210 - 1/31/05 12:39 AM In reply to: Slide shows on DVD by lou_doYour slide shows sound wonderful. I believe however that the video editing program has limited resolution on your slides. You start by entering your stills at 720X 480 pixels which means that sooming in on a slide immedeiatly starts degrading the resolution so that a 200% zoom reduces the available pixels to a much smaller amount. Your video editing software then has to interpolate back up to the 720 x 480 screen size in order to fill the screen.So you are stuck with either not zooming on slides or face image degadation when you do zoom.
I have switched to Memories on TV slide show because I enter my pictures at full resolution (usually 2500X1900 pixels}. Now I can do dramatically long zooms and pans and the image is never compromized in resolution. It is amazing to see. There are still lots of reasons to use the video editor to mix sound tracks etc. but for beatiiful and dramatic slide show portions Memories on TV far outshines the video editor
Considering the many hours we spend puting together these DVDs It seems worth your while to check out Memories on TV for your still image portions { and maybe even the video portions}
Doug
DVD Movie
by bigbusiness3692 - 1/14/05 7:12 AM In reply to: Recommendations from our members by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The newest Technology in DVD movie formats will allow you to send in 100 Photos and have them assembled to a theme of your choice, your pick of music, and the ability to have your photos enhanced and scanned all for one price. you will also have the choice of having them placed on a Photo CD like most of the already available software has available.
If you want them done professionally and experience lasting memories in digital format without spending the time it takes to produce a professionally DVD movie not just a slide show it is now available.
www.bigbusiness.mybigplanet.com CLICK on COUNTRY
Follow links to Digital Memories.
VSO PhototoDVD
by chaosmaker - 1/14/05 7:46 AM In reply to: Recommendations from our members by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Great little application that does most of the work for you, you just choose the music and photo's, it does what alot of other application's won't, it puts them in standard dvd format, that way you get a dvd that is compatible with most if not all dvd players. It's not a vcd or even svcd, it is a true dvd format. give it a try.
http://www.vso-software.fr/photodvd.htm
Photo Slide Shows- Music synchronization
by amielp - 1/14/05 8:30 AM In reply to: Recommendations from our members by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Synching the music to the slide shows is the hard part. Most programs are lousy at this. For the novice here's my take on the original question
1. Load photos onto your pc (either take them with a digital camera or get a cd with the photos burned onto them when you get your film developed).
2. Use any photo editing program available to make whatever edits to the photos you want. red eye elimination, crop etc. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements.
3. Decide which photos you want in the slide show and put them together in a number of themes. Some sort of logical progression telling the story. Eventually what you will end up doing is putting several slide shows together and burning them all onto a dvd.
4. Then open the slide show program you will use to burn the dvd. You will "create" a new slide show and select the photos from your hard drive you want in the show.
5. You will normally have options on duration of each slide and type of transition
6. One of the options is to have background music. Some programs will give you the option of having the slideshow start and stop with the music file you choose. Depending on the number of slides and the length of the song, the slides will last 2-10 seconds. You just have to experiment.
7. After you decide to put the slides to music and synch it you will "browse" to the music file on your pc and select it. You'll then probably be told the duration of each slide. eg. 25 slides 125 seconds of music, 5 seconds/slide.
8. final step is to burn the dvd. push a button, walk away and when it pops out, your done. YOu will normally create several slide shows for one dvd and select a photo from each to be the icon for the opening dvd menu. When your recipient pops the dvd into the player the menu will appear with each of the slide shows. At least thats how its supposed to work I've been using a program that came with my Dell call MyDVD with moderate success.
sounds complicated but actually fairly intuitive if you know how to browse to files on your pc. Enjoy
Curious to know if the synching of music to photos works well with any of the programs described.
synch music to slides
by gzfraud - 1/16/05 4:28 PM In reply to: Photo Slide Shows- Music synchronization by amielpI use uLead VideoStudio to create dvds with pics and video. It has 2 sound tracks separate from the pics/video. All you have to so is drag the music track from you pc (think mp3 or other compressed format) or from a music cd to one of the tracks. Of course the music and slide show never end at the same time so you just grab a little yellow slider on the music track to the end of your show. You can even have the music fade away, just like real movies.
I'm just beginning to learn video editing and it's not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. And I'm a CPA. So if I can do it anyone can.
re: Photo Slide Shows- Music synchronization
by dbackus - 1/17/05 10:55 AM In reply to: Photo Slide Shows- Music synchronization by amielpI use Roxio Easy Media Creator 7, and it works great at sync'g music to slide show length - 1 button. Also handles video pretty well. I bought the program specifically because it allowed controlled pans (Ken Burns effect - most appls seem to do his now) in my slide shows. Works pretty well, accept that controlling the speed of the pan across the image isnt always perfect. Otherwize highly recomend
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