Suggestions Wanted for Slideshow creation w/no limits

[TBoneit]

Hopefully someone will know how to do what I want.

What I want is software that will create a slideshow that will accecpt more than 99 photos, and output as a DVD ready MPEG to be added to an authoring application.

More details: I want to be able to add whatever quantity of images. Set a duration, Soundtrack and output to MPEG2 or AVI for conversion. It should only output a ready to convert or author file not create a DVD Structure or burn.

Does such an animal exist? I tried the ones in the tools section, they mainly failed in the amount of images in one show.

Thanks for amy feedback
Roger T

[yoda313]

Hello,

If your using it as a normal dvd 99 is the vts title limit. NO way around it. Sorry.

Kevin

(unless you made a mpg of the pics but then they wouldn't be selectable.....)

[TBoneit]

Yes I know that however if the slideshow program will output a file that has no chapters thus avoiding the 99 limit per title then I can add to authoring s/w until I run out of space.

IOW if I had 300 pictures from an event and I wanted them to have a duration of 2 secoonds each, the program should let me add them and create a mpeg/avi video that runs 300 times 2 seconds long.

Cheers

[canadateck]

I think the max "Title"Is 99 also.

Any NLE will do what you want.

[mastersmurfie]

Slide Show Movie Maker

Free, can add LOTS of pics (I checked first, and added 248 pictures), can choose transitions between each pic, and add soundtrack.

Outputs to an AVI

[tsantsa]

Slide Show Movie Maker

Free, can add LOTS of pics (I checked first, and added 248 pictures), can choose transitions between each pic, and add soundtrack.

Outputs to an AVI

I just checked out that little proggy. Looks great except that it only outputs to avi. For those of us that want to put it on something standard, you have to encode it to mpeg 1 or 2.

If he starts looking into mpeg output, he may have himself a product that he can make money on.

[yoda313]

Hello,

If he starts looking into mpeg output, he may have himself a product that he can make money on

But don't you have to pay a license for the mpeg2 codec???? I would imagine that's why its avi output - you can use any free avi codec. Otherwise mpg output would be limited to vcd level only. Though if it was a pay software than the creator could allow the mpg2 aspect for dvd creation.

Kevin

[tsantsa]

Though if it was a pay software than the creator could allow the mpg2 aspect for dvd creation.

Kevin

Thats what I meant. If he could output it to mpeg 2 for dvd playback (rather than standard slideshow) then he could make some cash on it. Theres little interaction with the viewer, but maybe they wouldn't want that. Well, maybe you could put chapter points...

[Rookie64]

Vegas does it all and more.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/products/showproduct.asp?PID=914

[northcat_8]

Slide Show Movie Maker

Free, can add LOTS of pics (I checked first, and added 248 pictures), can choose transitions between each pic, and add soundtrack.

Outputs to an AVI

I just checked out that little proggy. Looks great except that it only outputs to avi. For those of us that want to put it on something standard, you have to encode it to mpeg 1 or 2.

If he starts looking into mpeg output, he may have himself a product that he can make money on.

couldn't you just convert the AVI using TMPGenc Plus 2.5 or something?

[tin2tin]

Well with DVD slideshow GUI can you make slideshows with more than 99 slides but it will only create chaperpoints for the first 99 if you choose to export to an authored/ready to burn .iso. Or you can export to any other file format with as many slides as your hardware allows.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Sonic MyDVD 6=up to 1,000 photos,outputs to MPEG or DVD files.

[kisrum]

I didn't realize there was a 99 picture limit. Now I'm depressed.

I guess if I had to work around this problem, I would just do a series of shows in Memories on TV (which is what I own, for better or worse) and then put the resulting .vobs into mpeg video wizard in the sequence that I want. Not particularly elegant but it would work.

[jtoolman2000]

Now wait a minute. Won't just about any of the common non linear editors be able to create a single movie made up of a limitless # of pictures/images? I just loaded 300 small images onto premiere as well as Premiere elements time line and it accepted them without a complain. He is not trying to create 99 TITLES. I think he wants just one title but made up of more than 99 pictures. Just to test it I just did just that, and outputed to MPG 2 with transitions and music, ready to be authored to DVD.

Even Pinnacle studio 9 will do that easily.

[kisrum]

Now wait a minute. Won't just about any of the common non linear editors be able to create a single movie made up of a limitless # of pictures/images? I just loaded 300 small images onto premiere as well as Premiere elements time line and it accepted them without a complain. He is not trying to create 99 TITLES. I think he wants just one title but made up of more than 99 pictures. Just to test it I just did just that, and outputed to MPG 2 with transitions and music, ready to be authored to DVD.

Even Pinnacle studio 9 will do that easily.

Guess I didn't understand the question. I thought he had some specific reason for wanting to use a slide show application. Yes, even Pinnacle 8 (not recommended) will accept multiple jpg (and bmp, I think) stills and let you do transitions and soundtrack.

[jetfan]

Hello, I make slideshows all the time, the biggest one that I made so far has about 2000 - two thousand!- pictures on it. they were pictures of my kids. When I took the pictures and saved them onto my computer, I saved them by month and year. The program that I used to create my project was Pinnacles Studio 9, earlier versions may also work. You select the pictures that you want, you can then add background music if you want. I created chapter points for each month. It will also create a menu which you can select which month you wish to watch. Then I output to DVD and that's it. This particular disc is about 3 1/2 hours long. You can choose how ling each pic stays on screen - 1 sec to minutes probably, I go about 4 or 5 seconds usually.


Another option would be to save all your jpegs onto a DVD directly. I have a Sony DVD player that will allow me to zoom, pause, rotate, etc all of my pictures or choose the length of each picture.

[tsantsa]

Slide Show Movie Maker

Free, can add LOTS of pics (I checked first, and added 248 pictures), can choose transitions between each pic, and add soundtrack.

Outputs to an AVI

I just checked out that little proggy. Looks great except that it only outputs to avi. For those of us that want to put it on something standard, you have to encode it to mpeg 1 or 2.

If he starts looking into mpeg output, he may have himself a product that he can make money on.

couldn't you just convert the AVI using TMPGenc Plus 2.5 or something?

Sure you could, but then you yet more work to do.

[Ward River]

couldn't you just convert the AVI using TMPGenc Plus 2.5 or something?

Sure you could, but then you yet more work to do.

Nothing wrong with putting forth a little effort.

[tsantsa]

This is true however, if you want it to go to dvd then why not find a prog that will do it. A couple people mentioned products that apparently do this...

[jany]

See if Photo2DVD Studio will do what you want. It may help you make very nice slideshows with more than 99 photos, complete with background music, transition effects and many menu templates, etc...

[TBoneit]

Now wait a minute. Won't just about any of the common non linear editors be able to create a single movie made up of a limitless # of pictures/images? I just loaded 300 small images onto premiere as well as Premiere elements time line and it accepted them without a complain. He is not trying to create 99 TITLES. I think he wants just one title but made up of more than 99 pictures. Just to test it I just did just that, and outputed to MPG 2 with transitions and music, ready to be authored to DVD.

Even Pinnacle studio 9 will do that easily.

Guess I didn't understand the question. I thought he had some specific reason for wanting to use a slide show application. Yes, even Pinnacle 8 (not recommended) will accept multiple jpg (and bmp, I think) stills and let you do transitions and soundtrack.

I wasn't thinking outside the box!

I was thinking slideshow = slideshow maker application.

I'm not sure I have a NLE application. I use Videoredo to edit Mpegs, and VDub to edit AVIs.

CCE Basic or TMPGenc Plus or TMPGenc 3.0 Express for Video Conversion.

And I use TMPGenc DVD Author w/AC3 plug-in to author.

I tried Slide Show Maker as suggested, before I asked this question. At least on my system it ran once to completion. After that it always froze.

I think what happens is that most slideshow creator programs want to output a a DVD and make a 99 by 99 limit because they make each piture a chapter.

99 time 99 is a decent amount of pictures but some slideshow titles I want/need more than 99 pictures.

Thanks for the Help
Roger T

Edit: DVD slideshow GUI worked once but ignored the NTSC frame rate and created a 720 by 480 by 25fps mpeg and then wouldn't run again.
Photo2DVD trial won't run it complains about a missing DLL
Photo2VCD seems to run but then after a eriod of time creating the output it just disappears with no error message.
Next I'll be looking at SLideShow maker as suggested above.

Cheers

$50 is th max budget I have for this project.

[tin2tin]

@ TBoneit

Check your PM - I think I've solved that bug....

Tin2tin

(Edit: If anyone else wanna give it a try, I've oploaded the "possibly" fixed version on the homepage. CET: 21:00)

[Nelson9937955]

Hopefully someone will know how to do what I want.

What I want is software that will create a slideshow that will accecpt more than 99 photos, and output as a DVD ready MPEG to be added to an authoring application.

More details: I want to be able to add whatever quantity of images. Set a duration, Soundtrack and output to MPEG2 or AVI for conversion. It should only output a ready to convert or author file not create a DVD Structure or burn.

Does such an animal exist? I tried the ones in the tools section, they mainly failed in the amount of images in one show.

Thanks for amy feedback
Roger T

It absolutley exists. Pro Show Gold

If you want to make a professional slideshow presentation to burn to DVD, this is the best there is. I make wedding presentations, funeral presentations, church presentations. Trust me, whatever you are wanting to do, you can do with this. It can output directly mpeg-2 video

[Nelson37]

After messing with this many times, I found there is a MAJOR problem with true "slideshows". FF and RW do not work!!! So I went to creating an AVI in several different NLE progs.

Issues - Some progs make it easy to arrange and re-order your slides. Some progs automatically resize while maintaining aspect ratio. I have found none which do both AND output to AVI. This is such a major pain at one point I used DVD Picture Show to create an on-disk show and then captured it.

Many NLE progs have excellent editing features, but really crappy encoders. Recommend using an Editor to Edit, and an Encoder to Encode.

Progs tried -
Ulead Video Studio - library feature a royal pain.
DVD Picture show - Excellent arrangement features and resizing. No avi
Media Studio Pro - similar to Video Studio but improper resizing, better transitions
SSMM - could not get this to function
Avisynth and Vdub - no arrangement feature
VCDEASY - good resizing, poor arrangement, no avi
There were some others which got thrown out very quickly. In all cases, created AVI with Prog (except as noted) and encoded with TMPGenc or CCE.