Thanks. As I've already replied I followed Jez's suggestion to see if
my BlueRay player has the smarts to present a simple slide show and it
does. That fully satisfies my immediate requirement but I think I'll
follow up on the Microsoft freebie for more function in the future.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/16/2012 9:19 AM, Daniel Sepke wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> The most flexible program and the one that I personally use is ProShow Gold
> from Photodex. It has just about any output option you can think of from
> Youtube/flash to fully authored Bluray and DVD. Very good text input as
> well as any transition you could possibly want (tip use the simple ones
> rather than the tacky ones). A free alternative on Windows is Microsoft
> Photo Story. Less flexible output but slightly friendlier interface.
>
> Both of these have a video editor like timeline interface that shows the
> music strip and slide strip.
>
> Dan S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt
> Subject: [OM] How'd they do that?
>
> The other day I saw (briefly) a slide show playing off a DVD directly to a
> TV projector with no intervening computer. The show was in the Ken Burns
> style with slowly changing images and zooming in/out and panning back and
> forth on each image during its play time. Somebody here ( don't know who)
> must have made it since the photos were of a local event no more than a
> couple days old.
>
> I'd like to be able to produce slide shows also that run off a DVD with no
> intervening computer required. A number of the elderly folks here either
> don't have a computer or, even if they do, don't know how to use it other
> than for a few limited things.
>
> The Ken Burns style is OK but I'm really just interested in software that
> can get still images into video format and write it to a DVD. Most folks
> here do have a DVD player and know how to use it.
>
> Anyone know what's available?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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