Creating full-screen photo slide shows with music

"Jan Bøgh" spamhater@nowhere wrote in message
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Mark B. wrote:
I like ProShow:

http://www.photodex.com/

You can download a trial version.

IMHO it makes terrible bad quality when used on a PC.

You've either got a SLOW PC, or...
....You're doing something terribly wrong.

The stuff you can produce with ProShow is stunningly
professional-looking...if you have even a tiny bit of creativity and
style/technique.

"Mark B." wrote in message
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"Jan Bøgh" spamhater@nowhere wrote in message
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Mark B. wrote:
I like ProShow:

http://www.photodex.com/

You can download a trial version.

IMHO it makes terrible bad quality when used on a PC.


Works fine for me, I've even used it on a laptop run through a digital
projector and it looked fine.

Mark


I tried several programs before settling on ProShowGold. It has so many
options for saving slideshows -- Executables for PCs, VCDs, DVDs, the list
goes on.

I used a long list of great MP3 tracks to play concurrently with the slides.
You can change the duration of how long the slides are shown so they match
up with key points in your music. I managed to time it perfectly so that the
last slide was shown just as the music ended.

I made one copy as an executable for a friend to run on his PC. My copy was
a VCD to run on my TV's DVD player. Both look great. I sometimes pull out
this VCD when I want to play some great music at my parties, which in that
case, the slideshow is just a bonus. Nobody's forcing any guests to watch.
They do, though. And I haven't heard any complaints about it. Kind of like
have your own personalized MTV station playing your own music videos.

As you can see, this is the best program I've found so far for creating
music slideshows.

On 3 Jan 2005 09:31:06 -0800, wrote:

I'm looking for software package for Windows XP that will allow me to
create a photo-show with music. Recommendations?

I've tried a couple of different image programs (Microsoft, HP) but
none creates what I want. I really like the way my images look with
Micosoft's Windows Picture and Fax Viewer because it shows images in
full-screen mode at the best image density possible, but doesn't offer
anything in the way of helping you tell a story. I'd like to be able to
create a high-resoultion full-screen photo-show that also coordinates
subsets of slides with tracks of music, that lets you build a story by
setting the order in which images display and by showing captions and
text balloon overlays.

The programs that create VCDs seem to only want to use a lower
resolution image of the original photo, probably for purpose of
displaying on the TV screen. I don't care about creating a VCD, but I
do care about sharing with other Windows users, and maybe Mac users.
Thanks,
Tom Doster

Try Pictures to Exe from www.wnsoft.com

I like it better than Proshow Gold becasue you can add a song(s) and
have the program automatically time each slide to last the exact
length of the music.

It is for viweing only on a computer monitor, not for a home DVD
player.

robert Strom

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Try Pictures to Exe from www.wnsoft.com

I like it better than Proshow Gold becasue you can add a song(s) and
have the program automatically time each slide to last the exact
length of the music.

It is for viweing only on a computer monitor, not for a home DVD
player.

robert Strom

The latest version of Pictures to Exe does allow the show to be output on
DVD, but not very elegantly, and you do need additional DVD burning
software.

However, the package is only $24, and you get free upgrades. I would not
be surprised to see later versions supporting DVD shows directly.

I have had P2E for a year or so, and am very happy with it, as are several
members of our camera club who have also bought a copy.

Dennis

secheese wrote:

On 3 Jan 2005 09:31:06 -0800, wrote:

I'm looking for software package for Windows XP that will allow me to
create a photo-show with music. Recommendations?

Windows Movie Maker... comes with XP.

Produces video only, so resolution is limited, which the OP
specifically asked about. Also, transitions are limited to disolve,
and there are no zoom and pan effects.

Terry

secheese wrote:

On 3 Jan 2005 09:31:06 -0800, wrote:

I'm looking for software package for Windows XP that will allow me to
create a photo-show with music. Recommendations?

Windows Movie Maker... comes with XP.

Produces video only, so resolution is limited, which the OP
specifically asked about. Also, transitions are limited to disolve,
and there are no zoom and pan effects.

Terry

Robert Strom wrote:


Try Pictures to Exe from www.wnsoft.com

I like it better than Proshow Gold becasue you can add a song(s) and
have the program automatically time each slide to last the exact
length of the music.

FWIW, you can do this in Pro Show Gold, as well.

Terry

"Mark²" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote:

Far and away:

Pro Show Gold (the difference between Pro Show, and Pro Show Gold is direct
DVD burning).

And only Gold has the panning, zooming, rotating (known as Ken Burns
effects).

I agree ProShow is the best for a self running slide show.

It is not well suited for a show where you are giving an annotated
presentation, where you want to be able to pause, skip back 5 slides,
etc. I have not found a good solution for this task -- power point is
probably the best, but as another poster mentioned, it has problems
when the show gets large, and with large image files.

Terry

"Mark²" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote:

Far and away:

Pro Show Gold (the difference between Pro Show, and Pro Show Gold is direct
DVD burning).

And only Gold has the panning, zooming, rotating (known as Ken Burns
effects).

I agree ProShow is the best for a self running slide show.

It is not well suited for a show where you are giving an annotated
presentation, where you want to be able to pause, skip back 5 slides,
etc. I have not found a good solution for this task -- power point is
probably the best, but as another poster mentioned, it has problems
when the show gets large, and with large image files.

Terry

Robert Strom wrote:


Try Pictures to Exe from www.wnsoft.com

I like it better than Proshow Gold becasue you can add a song(s) and
have the program automatically time each slide to last the exact
length of the music.

FWIW, you can do this in Pro Show Gold, as well.

Terry