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I don’t think Adobe make a slideshow software. I use "Pictures to exe" which is easy to use and can do pan and zoom. You can make a simple slideshow in a few minutes or you can spend hours making an artistic presentation. You can download a trail from www.wnsoft.com and also see plenty of shows that people have made. Geoff
You don’t mention which frickin suite and which version.
Photoshop is primarily an image editor not presentation software, but one of the other apps in the frickin suite may do it. I presume you asked in their forums.
Kat, from post #5 I can see that No Frikin Name wants something to create a video file. He/she notes that they can figure out the DVD piece of it. There are plenty of free options to take a video file from Photo Story and encode it to MPG2/VOB.
While I have not tried it yet, there are apparently built in options in Vista. Photo Story 3 was designed for XP.
As has been mentioned, with the Master Collection you could probably produce the seventh installment of Star Wars if you wanted to.
If you are going to be doing a lot of these slide shows, however, and want something simple, you might want to consider ProShow Gold. It is pretty popular for slide shows and "Ken Burns" effects. It costs $70 but that seems like peanuts compared to what you have already invested. People spend 5 times that for Photoshop plug-ins to do simulated HDR. 🙂
I forgot to add that if you do use the Encore only route, make sure to create assets that are optimized for DVD authoring. You can do this before importing the images using Photoshop.
I do optimize them for video as a batch in PhotoShop with a script I created.
Currently I am using Premier Elements (Version 2 I think) because that seems to be the quickest thing to make a slide show of a few hundred pics. Grab a bunch of photos, a few clicks, done. But that is just with a boring transition.
Last time I looked, Encore had a 99 picture limit on slide shows.
I need to burn a new DVD (or create a new avi) of 150-200 pics each week.
I was hoping something in my Master Collection would help me do that quickly and with some pizazz.
Perhaps I’ll go check out Premier Elements 7 to see if they added any Ken Burns automation to their slide shows.
Probably a dumb question but I want to make a slideshow with music which I will then FTP to the recipient. I’m using XP and have PS CS4 and Lightroom 2. The people I’m sending to are on a Mac. Is there anything I need to do to make sure my material is readable on their system?
It may be a shock to you, but transitions are themselves a bore—just like the word "frikin". To a lot of us, fade-ins and fade-outs and all the other needless transition gimmicks are teeth-grinding tedious. Your presentations would be simpler and cleaner and just maybe more effective without them.
And what is even more of a bore is when the creator selected random transitions. Rather than enjoying the pictures you are wondering what’s coming next.
And what is even more of a bore is when the others offer opinions on what they think is the right thing to do for an audience that they know nothing about. Sort of like the advice you get from a grumpy old man.
Absolutely it depends on the audience. I tend to agree with the sentiments posted by the other esteemed members but as designers/producers we must always be aware of our audience wishes/desires.
There is quite a large section of users that admire the bells/whistles and/or clients that what the latest cool Flashy features.
"…And what is even more of a bore is when the others offer opinions on what they think is the right thing to do for an audience that they know nothing about…"
Sorry Frik, didn’t even occur to me that you might not be addressing your everyday type of audience. For all I know, you might very well be an animal psychologist entertaining a troop of chimpanzees.
Re: ‘No Frikin Name, I have CS4 Master Collection’
If all you wanted are simple trans, then why did you buy the whole thing? It is a waste of money on someone like you. I think you should have bought PS/Premiere Elements Collection instead. As I pointed out, if you had bothered to fire up Premiere or AE and even took some basic time with (eg the amount of time you’ve been wasting between posts), you could have quite easily done it in either of those apps.
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