Zoom in and out on Slideshow

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John B
Jun 5, 2006
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I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?

John B
UK

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MyVeryOwnSelf
Jun 5, 2006
I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?

I don’t know about Elements 3, but it’s available in Adobe Elements 4.

Creating a slide show, there are "pan and zoom" settings.
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Bob Somethingorother
Jun 5, 2006
In article <44845b49$0$22895$>,
John B wrote:

I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?

iMovie can do this. It’s called the Ken Burns Effect,


Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Bob
in Carmel, CA
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Fishface
Jun 6, 2006
John B wrote:
I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?

Really, a VCD? I didn’t think a VCD would support a fast enough bitrate to do this well. A DVD burner with bundled burning software is under $50…

The best I have found quality-wise for slideshows is ProShow Gold. They have a free trial. http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/ Everything else I’ve tried unacceptably blurs the photos.
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Ljsunrainy
Jun 7, 2006
And how can i forget my good friend – Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Showcase your slideshows on TV with professional Ken Burns Effect.

http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow-builder.html

Good luck.

Fishface wrote:
John B wrote:
I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?

Really, a VCD? I didn’t think a VCD would support a fast enough bitrate to do this well. A DVD burner with bundled burning software is under $50…

The best I have found quality-wise for slideshows is ProShow Gold. They have a free trial. http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/ Everything else I’ve tried unacceptably blurs the photos.
JB
John B
Jun 8, 2006
I am grateful for everyone’s comments. I have been holding off upgrading to Elements 4 as I didn’t feel the extra features were worth it (I didn’t know about the slide show enhancement and so I’ll rethink). I’ve had a look at "Ken Burns effect" (is this an in-joke I’m missing?) and I’ll probably download the free trial to assess it more closely. I’m currently assessing ProShow Gold by PhotoDex and it seems to do all I want at present but its worth looking at alternatives.
Thanks once again for your interest and suggestions.
John B
Notts
UK

wrote:
And how can i forget my good friend – Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Showcase your slideshows on TV with professional Ken Burns Effect.
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow-builder.html

Good luck.

Fishface wrote:
John B wrote:
I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?
Really, a VCD? I didn’t think a VCD would support a fast enough bitrate to do this well. A DVD burner with bundled burning software is under $50…

The best I have found quality-wise for slideshows is ProShow Gold. They have a free trial. http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/ Everything else I’ve tried unacceptably blurs the photos.
F
Fishface
Jun 8, 2006
wrote:
And how can i forget my good friend – Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Showcase your slideshows on TV with professional Ken Burns Effect.

This recommendation is not genuine.
http://groups.google.com/group/adobe.photoshop.elements/msg/ 79798ff6d3a8cdc0 Judge for yourself…
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MyVeryOwnSelf
Jun 8, 2006
had a look at "Ken Burns effect" (is this an in-joke I’m missing?) …

Ken Burns is a documentary film maker who has used pan-and-zoom effectively.

He made a highly regarded series on the Civil War. There are archival photographs available of that era. Using pan-and-zoom, Burns added "motion" to make the photographs seem more active.

Burns made a series on the history of jazz that was shown on PBS a year or two ago. The same approach was effective there. I thought the series was great.

Google "Ken Burns" for lots of information about him and his work.
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Fishface
Jun 9, 2006
MyVeryOwnSelf wrote:

Ken Burns is a documentary film maker who has used pan-and-zoom effectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_burns_effect

Burns made a series on the history of jazz that was shown on PBS a year or two ago. The same approach was effective there. I thought the series was great.

Hey, that reminds me, I taped it (VHS) and never watched it. As I recall, it took a bunch of tapes!
JB
John B
Jun 9, 2006
Thank you again everyone – I see from looking at various sites that the "Ken Burns" effect is a very real and "technical" term for this type of function, so thanks for the advice. I’ve downloaded a trial of PSE4 to try and so far it seems to do what I want (re Slide Shows). I use the "Album" function and obviously editing functions in PSE3 which I have and can’t really see too much else that PSE4 does in those two areas! Regards to all
John B
Notts UK

Fishface wrote:
MyVeryOwnSelf wrote:

Ken Burns is a documentary film maker who has used pan-and-zoom effectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_burns_effect

Burns made a series on the history of jazz that was shown on PBS a year or two ago. The same approach was effective there. I thought the series was great.

Hey, that reminds me, I taped it (VHS) and never watched it. As I recall, it took a bunch of tapes!

G
Graybeard
Jun 11, 2006
Hi John
I was using Elements 2 and bought Elements 4 to make DVD slide shows of my vacation pictures (about 3 GB of JPEG’s). Unfortunately, I can’t get the program to burn the DVD, and I have two DVD burners in my computer. Adobe doesn’t seem to carre. I suspect that you have to also buy Premier to make it work (another $100).

I wish that I had NOT upgraded. You lose the good browser in Elements 2, and get a mess called an Organizer (don’t most of use do a good job of organizing our files ourselves?). However, you do get some improved enhancing tools in Elements 4.

Good Luck,
Graybeard32

"John B" wrote in message
I am grateful for everyone’s comments. I have been holding off upgrading to Elements 4 as I didn’t feel the extra features were worth it (I didn’t know about the slide show enhancement and so I’ll rethink). I’ve had a look at "Ken Burns effect" (is this an in-joke I’m missing?) and I’ll probably download the free trial to assess it more closely. I’m currently assessing ProShow Gold by PhotoDex and it seems to do all I want at present but its worth looking at alternatives.
Thanks once again for your interest and suggestions.
John B
Notts
UK

wrote:
And how can i forget my good friend – Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Showcase your slideshows on TV with professional Ken Burns Effect.
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow-builder.html

Good luck.

Fishface wrote:
John B wrote:
I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?
Really, a VCD? I didn’t think a VCD would support a fast enough bitrate to do this well. A DVD burner with bundled burning software is under $50…

The best I have found quality-wise for slideshows is ProShow Gold. They have a free trial. http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/ Everything else I’ve tried unacceptably blurs the photos.
JB
John B
Jun 15, 2006
Graybeard wrote:
Hi John
I was using Elements 2 and bought Elements 4 to make DVD slide shows of my vacation pictures (about 3 GB of JPEG’s). Unfortunately, I can’t get the program to burn the DVD, and I have two DVD burners in my computer. Adobe doesn’t seem to carre. I suspect that you have to also buy Premier to make
Thanks, I have used the Organizer quite happily since i had Photoshop Album so the loss of the browser is not a problem. What extra enhancing tools are there?

it work (another $100).

I wish that I had NOT upgraded. You lose the good browser in Elements 2, and get a mess called an Organizer (don’t most of use do a good job of organizing our files ourselves?). However, you do get some improved enhancing tools in Elements 4.

Good Luck,
Graybeard32

"John B" wrote in message
I am grateful for everyone’s comments. I have been holding off upgrading to Elements 4 as I didn’t feel the extra features were worth it (I didn’t know about the slide show enhancement and so I’ll rethink). I’ve had a look at "Ken Burns effect" (is this an in-joke I’m missing?) and I’ll probably download the free trial to assess it more closely. I’m currently assessing ProShow Gold by PhotoDex and it seems to do all I want at present but its worth looking at alternatives.
Thanks once again for your interest and suggestions.
John B
Notts
UK

wrote:
And how can i forget my good friend – Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Showcase your slideshows on TV with professional Ken Burns Effect.
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow-builder.html

Good luck.

Fishface wrote:
John B wrote:
I use the Adobe Elements 3 Slide Show facility to show holiday photos etc and later to burn to VCD to show on TV. Recently I saw a VCD made on Pinnacle Studio Plus and another for the IMac which has the feature of zooming slowly in or out of a picture and/or panning across it in the time allowed. Is this facility available on Elements?
Really, a VCD? I didn’t think a VCD would support a fast enough bitrate to do this well. A DVD burner with bundled burning software is under $50…

The best I have found quality-wise for slideshows is ProShow Gold. They have a free trial. http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/ Everything else I’ve tried unacceptably blurs the photos.

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– in 4 materials (clay versions included)

– 12 scenes

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– 6000 x 4500 px

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