How to make slideshow from jpegs (for MS PowerPoint)

[StephanJohn]

Hi,

I have a series of jpeg images (I could make them another format if that helps) and an audio file (wav) that I would like to convert to a movie. The movie is supposed to be embedded in a MS PowerPoint presentation. Each image must last exactly 250ms in order to sync to the audio data.

I've tried dozens of freeware programs the whole day long, but none seem to give satisfying results. The Windows Movie Maker got me quite far, but then the quality of the images is crap compared to the original jpegs.

Anyone know of a way? I just can't believe that this is so hard to do...

I appreciate any help!
Stephan.

[Safesurfer]

Have you trie Microsoft's free Photo Story 3?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

[dwightgenius]

I have a recommendation for you,you can first make a PowerPoint with the images and insert the audios into it,and then convert the PowerPoint to videos with the professional tool
Moyea PowerPoint to Video Converter
http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-video/

[partake06]

Hi,

I have a series of jpeg images (I could make them another format if that helps) and an audio file (wav) that I would like to convert to a movie. The movie is supposed to be embedded in a MS PowerPoint presentation. Each image must last exactly 250ms in order to sync to the audio data.

I've tried dozens of freeware programs the whole day long, but none seem to give satisfying results. The Windows Movie Maker got me quite far, but then the quality of the images is crap compared to the original jpegs.

Anyone know of a way? I just can't believe that this is so hard to do...

I appreciate any help!
Stephan.

Well, try http://www.my-video-converter.com/, and it can easily solve your problem...

[hech54]

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[StephanJohn]

Hi all,

thanks for the many recommendations!

1. I hadn't tried MS PhotoStory. I have now, but unfortunately I can only specify the duration of a slide/photo in tenths of seconds there. I.e., 0.25 seconds is rounded to 0.2 seconds.

2. I have the same problem when testing the PowerPoint to Video Converter: slide duration cannot be specified under a second; neither in PowerPoint nor in the Moyea Software.

3. I visited the my-video-converter site and read through the descriptions of all their software, but couldn't find one that would convert images to a video. Probably I'm blind. Could you point me to the one you were thining of, partake06? Thanks!

Still grateful for any solution!
Stephan.

[hech54]

Probably I'm blind. Could you point me to the one you were thining of, partake06? Thanks!

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[tin2tin]

A bit more spam: No seriously

If you can live with each frame is showing 0.24 ms then maybe you can do it in DVD slideshow GUI. It works in frames.

Since you're from Germany I suspect that you want it in PAL(25 frames pr. sec). Set it in Presets. If every image is shown 0.24 ms - it is shown in 6 frames(6/25=0.24).

Or if you want to render it in 16:9 720p and 1080p runs at 23.976 frames pr. sec (6/23.976=0.25025025)

Then after importing all your slides you must set the duration of the slide to 6(frames) and all transitions to cut.avs(0 frames long all other transitions are at least 3 frames).

I don't know what kind of video PowerPoint takes?
When exporting if you want you video in a different size - I would recommend you to export it to .avs and render that file to a video file with ex. Super because it let you change the size of the resulting video. (If you want to export to flv(flash) then DVD slideshow GUI can do that for you).

[rallymax]

Google Picasa does a great job at taking images and turning them into a movie. 1/4second per image might be hard though.

[Cornucopia]

QT Pro. Rename the files to have a sequential batch extension (*.001.png, *.002.png, *.003.png ...*.999.png) like 1-For-All Renamer, and Import the sequence (by selecting the 1st file) and then specify the framerate (in your case, 250ms = 4fps). It'll load all of them up with the right duration. You could then add in the prepared audio track, Save as Movie, and you're done!

Scott

[StephanJohn]

Thanks for the answers!

tin2tin, unfortunately, I really need exactly 250ms per slide because of my audio data

The smallest rate Picasa offers is 1 slide per second...

Quicktime seems promising. However, the drop-down menu for selecting the framerate doesn't offer 4fps, only 6fps or 2fps. Does your version offer 4fps, Cornucopia? Maybe they changed that in a recent version?
Secondly, Quicktime doesn't find any image files in the folder where I have my images stored... Very strange. But that's probably an installation problem. I could try a different computer for that, if I have the chance of a correct frame rate.

Stephan.

[tin2tin]

How many images are we talking about here? How long is your final video? Maybe 0.000025025 ms difference isn't visible at all(HD version)? Or 0.01 ms difference.

The problem is that an image can't be shown in half frames. So you gotta first deside what on what framerate you need for Power Point?

Actually I think your needs are that speciffic that you should check out Avisynth.

A script consisting of
'a=Imagesource(...)' to load an imagesequence with a 6 frames duration for each frame and fps(frames pr. sec) = 24.
'b=wavsource(...)' to load your audio
'Audiodub(a,b)'
(check the avisynth docs for those commands)

And use Super to render the .avs script to what ever format you need.

[Gavino]

tin2tin, unfortunately, I really need exactly 250ms per slide because of my audio data

You ought to be able to take the .avs produced by DVD Slideshow GUI and edit it to change the frame rate. If you're not making a DVD, you're not limited to standard rates.

Make the slides 5 frames long at 20fps.
Add AssumeFPS(20) at the end of the script.

EDIT: or 6 frames at 24fps, of course.

[StephanJohn]

OK, I'm getting there...

I used AviSynth with the following .avs file

v = ImageSource("D:\talks & poster\finess-film\Bildmaterial\Einzelbilder\%03d.jpg", 1, 23, 24)
v = AssumeFPS(v,4)
a = WAVSource("D:\talks & poster\finess-film\Beispiel-Daten\M1of2_16bit-mono.wav")
AudioDub(v,a)

I'm not quite sure why I need to specify a framerate of 24 first and then have it assume 4 later, but it wouldn't work with 4fps directly.

I'm now trying SUPER to convert the .avs to something PowerPoint will read. So far, I only succeeded with the .asf format. But the image quality is quite crappy I'll have to fiddle around with that for a while... At the worst I just won't embed it in PowerPoint but play it in MediaPlayerClassic during the presentation. The synchronization between audio and video is much more important.

Anyway, thanks a lot for all the help!

Stephan.

[Gavino]

v = ImageSource("D:\talks & poster\finess-film\Bildmaterial\Einzelbilder\%03d.jpg", 1, 23, 24)
v = AssumeFPS(v,4)
...

I'm not quite sure why I need to specify a framerate of 24 first and then have it assume 4 later, but it wouldn't work with 4fps directly.

In what way didn't it work with ImageSource("...", 1, 23, 4)?
It works for me.

[tin2tin]

In this case:

At the worst I just won't embed it in PowerPoint but play it in MediaPlayerClassic during the presentation.

I would recommend you to export from DSG to either 720p or 1080p (as .mpg) - I'm pretty certain the small difference between 23.975 fps and 24 fps won't be noticeable at all unless we're talkin hours of video...

But 720p or 1080p needs a somewhat powerful computer to play back realtime...

If you want it exact 24 fps. You can also export the .avs script from DSG with 6 frames pr. image and the use you script from above by adding this to the end of that script:

v = last
v = AssumeFPS(v,24)
a = WAVSource("D:\talks & poster\finess-film\Beispiel-Daten\M1of2_16bit-mono.wav")
AudioDub(v,a)

[greymalkin]

Is this a time lapse video or something? if each picture is of a different subject then .25 seconds will give everyone a headache!

ProShow will automatically sync your pictures to the audio track but it isn't free.

[StephanJohn]

Don't worry - it's only a graph that is drawn point by point

Stephan.

[rallymax]

sounds like at 4fps you are doing stop motion or a time lapse.
either way you may be better off looking at this from a stop motion animation perspective. I googled stop motion for ya and this site seems promising...

http://www.stopmotioncentral.com/downloads.html

[Cornucopia]

Thanks for the answers!

tin2tin, unfortunately, I really need exactly 250ms per slide because of my audio data

The smallest rate Picasa offers is 1 slide per second...

Quicktime seems promising. However, the drop-down menu for selecting the framerate doesn't offer 4fps, only 6fps or 2fps. Does your version offer 4fps, Cornucopia? Maybe they changed that in a recent version?
Secondly, Quicktime doesn't find any image files in the folder where I have my images stored... Very strange. But that's probably an installation problem. I could try a different computer for that, if I have the chance of a correct frame rate.

Stephan.

Stephan, I apologize. An older (possibly hacked) version of QTPro could give you whatever fps you wanted, but the latest versions (6x-7x) only give you certain steps. And 4fps isn't one of them.

I'd suggest making them all 1fps, save as Uncompressed AVI, and then decimate (by skipping) the framerate in Vdub, but that's a good deal more extra steps than I originally gave. At that point, it might make more sense to go with AVISynth or similar. Or one of those stop-motion apps.

Scott

[rallymax]

I happened to do a timelapse of a sunset on the weekend using continuous shooting of 5 second exposures on a DSLR. I dropped it into Premiere Pro and set the default still-frame duration to 10fps. (thus a 50x times up). It worked great.

You could download the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 trial and do that. I'm pretty sure it'll let you render that to video without a watermark etc.