Slideshow + video

[Poggle]

I have a lot of pictures and video I took on a digital camera and I was wondering what method would best be used to make a slide show and have video with videos in between the various pictures? By in between I don't mean on the screen at the same time, I mean after the picture is shown.

[daamon]

Hi Poggle,

Something like the following may well do the trick:

Avid Free DV
Zwei-stein
AviTricks

They're all free and are video editors. I've not used them, but their description sounds promising.

Hope that helps. Good luck...

[nomads]

Adobe Premier work well for this.

[okaylu]

Photo2DVD is another solution. It makes photo slide show video CD and can be viewed on TV with a DVD player.

[jdizzy40]

You can't beat Memoriesontv

[kisrum]

Most decent video editors, some free, will let you import your jpgs or bmps as still images in between video segments. If you want special effects on those photos, Ken Burns effect etc., you might have to spend some money. I'm not that familiar. Is there sound to the video? Will you be adding music or voice-over? What format is the digital camera video in? Will it have to be re-encoded to MPG-2? Probably.

I don't know whether there are any slide show producing programs which will also allow you to edit video. I own Memories On TV (a slide show software $53.00, mentioned above) but I've never tried to use it to edit video in between photos. I've taken MOTV slide show vobs and dropped them into Mpeg Video Wizard ($70.00-ish). This is a bit bass-ackwards, I admit, but I'm too lazy to learn which avi editor to use.

If this video is really from a digital camera, I can't believe the quality is high enough to justify spending $500.00 on prosumer software. Most video editors have free trial periods which will let you see what they can do, most slide show creators have trial periods with a big logo stuck in the middle of your pictures, so you might want to try the video editors first.

Good luck