Uh.. the message that started this thread says nothing about SlideShow Movie Maker, nor did it mention a need to create transitions between slides. It mentions slides and video clips on the same DVD, and it mentions a menu to select either the slideshow or the video: all of which requirements are catered for by standard DVD authoring features.Originally Posted by daamon
Yes, the author mentions Slideshow Movie Maker in a later message, but I believe he has been sent down that track by bad advice.
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Originally Posted by mpack
I would say that AeR0 has chosen SSMM himself and we've followed that with help and suggestions based on what was subsequently posted.
Get your facts right before criticising and not offering anything instead...There is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England: Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 22/11/2003.
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Originally Posted by mpack
Originally Posted by mpack
And you then go on to make a sweeping general statement which encompasses all of the more precise previously suggested tools - repetition, useful...
Admit it - you fired from the hip and you're in an indefensible position. Let it go and let's got on with helping people...There is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England: Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 22/11/2003.
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Originally Posted by daamon
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Actually, shortly after posting that last message it struck me that your comments are still curiously ambiguous. Yes, each slide in the slideshow must ultimately be rendered in MPEG-2 form by the authoring app... but why would you feel the need to highlight just that part of the authoring apps responsibility and not others??
Then it struck me... you do realise that each slide is encoded as an MPEG-2 still don't you, and not as an MPEG-2 movie? In other words, you do understand that a slideshow is a series of stills and hold times, and is not a synthesized movie, right?
Perhaps the recent confusion has been due to my crediting you with more knowledge than you actually have. -
Originally Posted by mpack
Originally Posted by mpack
Originally Posted by mpack
I shall ask again - please leave it now. This is of no use to AeR0 (apart from, perhaps, mild amusement at your vain attempts at jibes). If you want to carry on this "off topic" crusade, start a thread in the Off Topic forum. Don't expect me to join in - I'd rather be helping people than being distracted.There is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England: Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 22/11/2003.
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I, for one, don't have $5K to spend on DVDMaestro, when Slide Show Movie Maker is free and can do the job I need it to do ...
I know which one I'd choose, but that's just meIf in doubt, Google it. -
Originally Posted by jimmalenko
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This IS constructive .. .grain of salt please
Originally Posted by mpack
Originally Posted by mpack
Please get your facts straight
*** Remember, it's better to let people think you are stupid, than opening your mouth and removing all doubtIf in doubt, Google it. -
Hi AeR0,
If you just need to throw down some slides and some video on a dvd(and the menus isn't all that important), I just want to mention, that I've added import/export of avi's to the DVD slideshow GUI now(6.jan). So avi's can be mixed with slides and music, rendered to mpeg2, muxed, authorised as a ready to burn dvd-.iso file. All in the same free proggy.
Have fun,
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Nice one tin2tin!!! I'm sure that'll prove very useful to alot of people.
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Carpe diem.
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jimmalenko wrote:
I seriously doubt that - otherwise DVD-lab would be sold for a similar price instead of $100 (or $200 for the Pro version), no ? ... and given that you know nothing about the alternatives (see below), methinks someone was talking out their assGot my retirement plans all set. Looks like I only have to work another 5 years after I die........ -
Originally Posted by Garibaldi
I tried a test with a Huffyuv compressed file and this "fix" didn't work, neither did using uncompressed. I don't use xvid, or any Divx variants, so haven't tested them. Maybe it only works with DV encoded files!"Just another sheep boy, duck call, swan
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Originally Posted by jimmalenko
Learn to read for gods sake! I did not recommend or attack any specific tool, I questioned the METHOD initially being promoted here of converting a slideshow into a synthesized movie: ie. a method of simulating a slideshow which is enormously wasteful of disk space (in order to get a 10 second pause with a synthesized movie you must provide 10 seconds of at least the minimum bit rate to avoid underflows - and as a side effect giving your slide minimum quality at the same time!) when DVD has a standard built-in slideshow feature which only requires one MPEG still per slide, occupies negligable disk space, gives maximum quality, leaves most of the disk space for a PCM soundtrack or whatever else you want, and can be accomplished with any worthwhile DVD Authoring app: meaning anything other than the "one button and its done" shit. One example not enough, or Maestro not the right example for you? Well fine! Take your pick of the decent authoring apps then you tell me which one you can't do it with! -
Originally Posted by mpack
At this point, are at any time later, you could've stepped in with words like:
"The way you're doing it will get the results you desire, however...
Originally Posted by mpack
Doesn't that make you sound like a much more reasonable and helpful person rather than how you actually came across? As evidenced by the similar replies, from more than one person, to your posts.
I agree with what you say - just not the way you chose to express it. And I'm sure AeR0 would be grateful for the information and any help on how to go about it...There is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England: Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 22/11/2003.
Carpe diem.
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Diplomacy is not one of my skills. However, I apologise for losing my temper. And there was I thinking I had left flame wars behind me a decade ago...
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