Photo Slideshow with Music

[pele4483]

Hi There:

Does anyone know of any programs for Photo Slide Show making that allows you to make the slides change to the next slide by the beat of a music song???

So what i am asking is:

Are there any Photo Slide Show programs that make one slide change to the next slide by the changing of the beat in a song playing on the program?

Thanks alot guys for the help

cheers

[Pied-Piper]

I think Ulead DVD PictureShow could do this.
Also WinOnCD has a good photoalbum maker!

[pele4483]

Hi :

Thanks for the reply...

I tried Ulead DVD Picture Show and they did not have this feature...

Do you know of any other ones that might work, i do not think WinOnCd does it either...

If anyone could help, that would be very much appreciated...

Thanks again

[pele4483]

Thanks

[sayeesreedhar]

Hi,
You can create photoslide show with lot of features with this tool Slide Show Movie Maker.I think it is the best tool currently available on the web.Above all it is free to download.You can also make PhotoVCDS using TMPGEnc by converting the AVI to VCD compliant MPEG file.Here is the link.http://www.joern-thiemann.de/tools/ssmm/.
I hope this will answer your question.

cheers

[pele4483]

Thanks for the program...

But does it allow my to change from slide to slide from the beat in the music???

I downloaded it and i am looking at all the options right now.

Do you know of this feature?

Thanks again for the help

[vcddude]

While it does not change slides to the beat of the music
and it is not free, I think Vegas Video 3 is THE best way to
go for video slideshows with music.

The freeware SSMM previously referenced is the best free thing
out there (probably the only free thing). Looks very feature-rich
but the interface is a bit clunky and sets too many per-image
defaults that you need to manually change.

vcddude

[susie]

Anyone here knows how to create an interactive PhotoVCD ?

What I mean is : When I press "next" button my DVD remote I should be able to view the next picture and when I press the "back" button I should be able to view the previous picture.

I tried Ulead DVD Pictureshow and Nero5564 but they can't create an interactive PhotoVCD.

I found a website that has the instruction on how to create an interactive PhotoVCD with Nero but I tried and when I play the PhotoVCD on my dvd player...all I see is the background image with the listing of all my jpgs but I can't display the jpgs.


http://www.labdv.com/en/manuals/vcd_photo.php#interactive

[themichael]

For an interactive PhotoVCD you have to use VCDImager. I have created a photo album and slide show combo using xml. Not for the faint of heart!!

The downside is the limit is about 600 pictures. This comes from the fact that VCD limits to 1980 items and you end up using 1800 items in creating the menus and slide show (3n+1 for the math geeks). Basically you can select the picture to veiw from thumbnails (similar to nero) and use next/prev to move back and forth. This is the album part. Pushing play on the first menu runs a slideshow for that album.

This took me a week of lunches and a weekend to figure out. I was unhappy with the number of pictures until a co-worker pointed out that this was over 20 rolls of film and that most people don't come close to shooting this many pictures for years.

I haven't tried music yet because I wanted the hi res pictures and not the 320x240 video. Looks like time to experiment.


Mike

[alucard2050]

hhhmmmmm....i have only made 1 slide show with Nero and it came out great. i didn't create a menu for it but all i had to do was press PLAY and the first JPEG appeared. then i just clicked the next and back buttons and they scrolled to whichever JPEG i wanted. for a menu though you might havre to select the number on your remote like 1 or 2 or 3 and so on but i don't know....only problem i had was my player couldn't read past 99 JPEGS........

[susie]

I will give VCDImager a try. Is the program east to use and do I have to resize all my images ? (most of my jpgs are 1024 x768 )


themichael wrote :

For an interactive PhotoVCD you have to use VCDImager. I have created a photo album and slide show combo using xml. Not for the faint of heart!!

[susie]

alucard2050 wrote :
>hhhmmmmm....i have only made 1 slide show with Nero and it came >out great. i didn't create a menu for it but all i had to do was press >PLAY and the first JPEG appeared. then i just clicked the next and back >buttons and they scrolled to whichever JPEG i wanted.

You can scroll to whatever image you want ? Did you use the instruction on this website to create the slideshow ? And did you select the time interval to "infinite" ?


>for a menu though you might havre to select the number on your >remote like 1 or 2 or 3 and so on but i don't know....only problem i had >was my player couldn't read past 99 JPEGS........

I never thought about pressing the number keys on the remote and that might be the problem. I am going to try it out.

Thanks.

[themichael]

don'tVCDImager isn't easy to use at first. Once the learning curve over (and you have some xml code to cut and paste) the VCDs you can authur can beat anything the commercial stuff can do.

As for images, there has been discusion here about the pixels on tv versus monitors.

Basically I take my collection of pictures and run them thru Irfanveiw (http://www.irfanveiw.com - free) and resize them to 707 wide by 485 high. Make sure to keep the aspect ratio!!

Next I batch process the images through either The GIMP for windows (free) or PhotoShop. Resize the canvas to 768 x 523, add a background gradient or image, filter for ntsc safe colors, and save.

For Nero just drag and drop. The pixel problem solved and you have more intersting screens than nero does.

For VCDImager or TSCV use Irfanveiw to resize to 704 x 480. Make sure you DON"T keep the aspect ratio!! Use either VCD ToolKit or the mjpeg tools to encode to complient mpeg stills.


I think I have found a way to add background music to a slide show but FF/REW doesn't work (at least on my Mintek 2180). It is a bit ungainly and clumsy to encode more than a handful of pictures.

As to making them change to the beat of the music, it is possible.

Yes there is a but..... it will take a lot of work and some precision time keeping. Haven't verified this but its just an extension of the music/SFX idea.


Mike

[alucard2050]

i didn't mean actual scrolling. i meant simply clicking the next button one after the other to go to the image i wanted. and yes, settings are infinate...

[alucard2050]

i tried out the slide show in the far above post that creates an AVI slideshow. it works very well. only problem i have is if i create them uncompressed or with the Huffuv codec, i reach my 2gig file limit. thus meaning for 100 jpegs i have to do them in sections. when the limit goes beyond 2gig the file won't play. but its no problem cause the audio can be added during compression useing TMPGE.........

[susie]

themichael wrote :
>VCDImager isn't easy to use at first. Once the learning curve over (and you have some xml code to cut and paste) the VCDs you can authur can beat anything the commercial stuff can do.

Hmm...may I should forget about trying VCDImager.


>I think I have found a way to add background music to a slide show >but FF/REW doesn't work (at least on my Mintek 2180). It is a bit >ungainly and clumsy to encode more than a handful of pictures.

Yes I just found out that not all DVD players can handle PhotoVCD.


Mike
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[susie]

i didn't mean actual scrolling. i meant simply clicking the next button one after the other to go to the image i wanted. and yes, settings are infinate...

So only the "next" button worked for you ? On my dvd player , no matter if I press "next" or "back" button the next image will be displayed but I poped the photovcd in my DVD-Rom and everything works fine. If I press "next" the next image will be displayed and if I press "back" the previous image will be displayed.

Conclusion : my apex ad-700 dvd player can't handle interactive photovcd.

[vcddude]

Hi, the SSMM app is pretty cool actually and easy to use. I was
wrong in my previous post about too many defaults. I have a question
about adding audio to an SSMM slideshow. Suppose the slideshow
is 10 minutes long. Is there a way to add two 5 minute audio files
to the SSMM project so that the second audio starts playing once
the first has completed? Seems to me that you need to guess which
picture the first audio file ends on and insert the second audio file
at that point. Looking for a way to automatically do this.

Thanks,
Kevin