DVD slideshow GUI - development thread.

[tin2tin]

They must have taken the old version of Imgburn down.

I've updated the installer and uploaded it under the same name. So please redownload DSG and try again.

[EDIT: Well I gave it a new number since the previous(0.9.2.2) wouldn't work for anyone thanks to the Imgburn bug). This way I hope the mirrors of DSG will be updated]

[tin2tin]

DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.4 is out.
- GFD transitions fix.
- GFD still blacklevel fix.
- Animated background for gfd added.
- Font button fix.
- Menu access for DVD menus added.
- Menu access for background added.
- Mirror post-effect fix.
- Ssa Clear Tags added.

[tin2tin]

If you want voice-over on your slideshows then MULTIQUENCE seems to be very useful and fully functional shareware.

Just render your slideshow in DSG as mpg and in Multiquence Track > Add video sequence... to load that video and record your voiceover as in the following video tutorial. When finished you select File > Save as audio... and save as wav or mp3. Now you load this audio file in DSG and export your slideshow as usual.

Here's the video tutorial:

[tin2tin]

DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.2.5 is out with two new things:

Backup of original media(copies in a 'Source' folder) offered when export to iso/burned dvd:


Move back and forth between slides in the 'Slide Settings' window:


Get it here!

[EDIT: I reuploaded 0.9.2.5 - 4 hours after this post - because I realised that the updates where too slow on my old XP computer and I found some ways to optimize the code so it should be faster now(And also adding of animated keyframes to multiple slides)]

[tin2tin]

Fixed some bugs which made the 'Slide Settings' menu crash and uploaded under the same name on the DSG homepage.

When you open it - it will say '0.9.2.5 A' in the header.

So please redownload it unless you downloaded it after reading this post.

[hoinar]

First of all, thanks for your work, tin2tin. It looks and really is a great piece of software and I'm sure everybody appreciates it... I have some questions re: dsg.

1. I'm using your last version 0.9.2.5A and try to set up a slideshow in 720p format. If I save the show as *.avi everything seems OK, the file has 1280x720 px. However, if I save the show as *.avs and use the avs file in AvsP and try to encode there (with avs2avi) the output file is only 50% resolution, i.e. 640x360 px (as shown in the attached image)... the same if I use the avs file (where everything seems with the correct dimensions i.e. 1280 and 720) in VirtualDub for ex, the output avi is only 640x360 px... do you know why this happens ?



2. Saving as avi you always get the separate file *_180.ac3 as audio output ? I don't mind cause this or the original audio file can be muxed later on... but this is the default with dsg ?

[tin2tin]

If I export 720p in .avs and add info() to the end of the script here's what I get:

In other words: the dimentions seem okay. It's proberly the configuration of your encoding codec(in avs2avi) you'll have to look into to make it render a file with the correct dimentions.

On your 2. question: As far as I remember is the avi export not muxed - because I never forund a command line tool to mux them correctly.

[EDIT: Okay when using an animated background some .reduceby2() are added to one of the last lines(for preview). It's the line starting with "audiodub(overlay(b...". Just remove all the .reduceby2() from that line(until I get time to fix that)]

[hoinar]

... when using an animated background some .reduceby2() are added to one of the last lines(for preview). It's the line starting with "audiodub(overlay(b...". Just remove all the .reduceby2() from that line(until I get time to fix that)]

That seems to work... thanks a lot... it's OK for preview to reduce the size of the output file (it's true, it happens with animated backgrounds) but if exporting as *.avs it would be nice to have the desired dimension.

BTW, the latest additions re: subtitles are very nice

[tin2tin]

A few bugfixes is uploaded under the same old name on the homepage - when running the GUI it will say '0.9.2.5 B'.
- 720p avs export with animated background bugfix.
- 720p 1080p animation tool X value bugfix.

You can also read up on the subtitle tags her: http://aegisub.cellosoft.com/docs/ASS_Tags
If you come up with some interestion tag combinations then let me know and I'll add them to DSG.

[Ruso]

Hi
I have the 0.9.2.2 version, and i'm trying to export an AVI video.

I have a problem when i try to animate some slides (zoom effect), values of Position X and Y changes ¿randomly?

Example: After i put the Position Y value to 100 in 'Pan, Zoom and Rotate' Box (setting keys correctly) and press Okay, when i return to configure this, the value is set to 69, and X position is reset to 180.
(Sorry about my english)

Thanks for the feedback and congratulations for your work!

[tin2tin]

DVD slideshow GUI
Video tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctV1Rt6vmbM
Here's a 10 min. video tutorial showing a lot of the functions of DSG.

See how to:
- Import photos
- Use Shift or Ctrl to select more slides.
- Import Music
- Set format
- PAL(Europe) or NTSC(U.S.)?
- Set background
- Safe Area
- Change order of slides
- Change transitions
- Add subtitles
- Double left click to preview two slides
- Right click to open Slide Settings
- Font
- Use mouse wheel to go frame by frame
- Add animation
- Use negative transition durations to overlap
- Burn DVD

Have fun!!

@ Ruso - If you're working in 720P there was an Animation tool bug where the Y values moved up each time the tool was opened - this bug is fixed in '0.9.2.5 B' mentioned above. If you add animation to more slides in one go, then all these slides are linked and changing the animation of one of then will change them all.

[tin2tin]

0.9.2.6
- Paint App & AvsP access from 'Slide Settings' window.
- Add Ssa tags to all selected slides.
- Unlimited number of animation keyframes.
- Paint app path bug.

Here are the "new" buttons in the Slide Settings menu:

[hoinar]

Hi tin2tin, thanks for going on with your work...

Re: last dsg version posted (don't know if these observations could have been valid for previous versions 'cause I didn't try... )

1. saving subtitles as *.srt the line breaks are lost i.e. a subtitle like "there should be a line break\Nhere" is output as "there should be a line breakhere"... don't know if is really important, just let you know...

2. saving subtitles as *.ssa does not produce any file, it seems it doesn't save it in this format (except saving as *.all but in this way the whole show is processed and takes time... ).

3. colors in the dvd format film output seem to be very different (either on pc monitor or tv) from those in the avi format for ex.

4. can we suppose that if an image used in slideshow is cropped to correct dimensions for the output film i.e. 1280x720 px for a 720p film or 720x576 px for a PAL film... and no pre-process neither post-process is used... these images are not processed in any way by dsg (except, of course, the action of the video codec used for the output file)... ? because the quality seem to be bit different: the actual image and a screen capture from the movie when displaying an image for long time...

Thanks for your time.

[hoinar]

Sorry... the same post went the second time... maybe ad admin can delete the duplicate...Hi tin2tin, thanks for going on with your work...

Re: last dsg version posted (don't know if these observations could have been valid for previous versions 'cause I didn't try... )

1. saving subtitles as *.srt the line breaks are lost i.e. a subtitle like "there should be a line break\Nhere" is output as "there should be a line breakhere"... don't know if is really important, just let you know...

2. saving subtitles as *.ssa does not produce any file, it seems it doesn't save it in this format (except saving as *.all but in this way the whole show is processed and takes time... ).

3. colors in the dvd format film output seem to be very different (either on pc monitor or tv) from those in the avi format for ex.

4. can we suppose that if an image used in slideshow is cropped to correct dimensions for the output film i.e. 1280x720 px for a 720p film or 720x576 px for a PAL film... and no pre-process neither post-process is used... these images are not processed in any way by dsg (except, of course, the action of the video codec used for the output file)... ? because the quality seem to be bit different: the actual image and a screen capture from the movie when displaying an image for long time...

Thanks for your time.

[tin2tin]

1. saving subtitles as *.srt the line breaks are lost i.e. a subtitle like "there should be a line break\Nhere" is output as "there should be a line breakhere"... don't know if is really important, just let you know...

The tags are only for ssa subtitles - and completely removed from srt.

2. saving subtitles as *.ssa does not produce any file, it seems it doesn't save it in this format (except saving as *.all but in this way the whole show is processed and takes time... ).

Yes, that's a bug. Fix one thing and break some other thing...

3. colors in the dvd format film output seem to be very different (either on pc monitor or tv) from those in the avi format for ex.

Everything exported from DSG is in yv12(HCenc needs this) colorspace which has a limited range compared to ex. RGB32.

4. can we suppose that if an image used in slideshow is cropped to correct dimensions for the output film i.e. 1280x720 px for a 720p film or 720x576 px for a PAL film... and no pre-process neither post-process is used... these images are not processed in any way by dsg (except, of course, the action of the video codec used for the output file)... ? because the quality seem to be bit different: the actual image and a screen capture from the movie when displaying an image for long time...

The images are scaled, temporary saved as ebmp(lossless I hope) and converted to yv12 before rendered to whatever codec(compressed).

If you are using an animated background the blacklevel of the images is pushed up(by 16) during processing, because yv12 doesn't support alpha channel and then the background is keyed/masked out and the blacklevel of the images is pulled back to the correct level.

NB. when previewing slideshows with an animated background it's in reduced by 2 in size.

[tin2tin]

0.9.2.7
- New: Convert slides to Avisynth script and edit in AvsP.
- SSA export bugfix.

If you click the Avisynth button and you selected slide is an image or an avi then DSG can convert(make an avs script) open that file in AvsP for editing.

[Eeo]

Sorry if I am on the but I am new to the forum so if I am on the wrong thred i apologise, the problem I am having is but i cannot seem to export to gdf as it is not an option

[tin2tin]

GFD(GUI for DVDauthor) is DVD only and therefore 720p and 1080p is not supported(in Project Settings).

[Eeo]

GFD(GUI for DVDauthor) is DVD only and therefore 720p and 1080p is not supported(in Project Settings).

thanks worked it out now , thanks for the quick reply

[tin2tin]

For the next version of DVD slideshow GUI I could use some help with updating the translations in Dutch and French. It is easily done by downloading poEdit and either the Dutch or French .po file which then can be opened in poEdit. When you're finished translating the missing and yellow lines save as .po and and send me that file(use the PM function at videohelp to get in contact with me).

There are 38 strings missing translations and 84 fuzzy ones(which needs to be checked).

If you want to start up a new translation in a new language(ex. Russian, Italian or Spanish...) open this file here template.pot in poEdit(or Gorm - which can use google translate to suggest translations) and start translating.

I'm in the process of setting up translation files in Launchpad, but apparently it takes a long time for them to approve of the files, but eventually Launchpad will make translating DSG much easier(no poEdit).

[tin2tin]

Need help for translating DVD slideshow GUI to your language!

Now the template is up on Launchpad: https://translations.launchpad.net/dvdslideshowgui/trunk
The easy way now to update/make new translations for DSG is by registering at http://launchpad.net
Under you new profile you need to set 'Your preferred languages' and then hit Translation.
Now your language should be among the languages available for translation.

Here's a tutorial on translating in Launchpad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBnJzAdk-g

[dinh]

need help, i found dvd slideshow gui with big font, color subttile is very exciting, can you show me how to do that? i madea text file .srt and used avisynth but it gives me black and white text only.

i got problem with dvd slideshow gui:
1. i clicked on paint icon, it asked me where or which paint pgram, i clicked the close box (x icon on top right corner) it then pop up again and again constantly, it have to use alt+ctrl+del to terminate the program

[tin2tin]

Subtitle tags are only for ssa subtitles not srt. I'll check up on the other thing later, but I can't right now.

[dinh]

i used a program, srt to ssa converter to convert .srt into .ssa, i opened with media player classic and it pop up message "vsfilter error line 6" and media classic shown "Textsub: can't open textsub.ssa"

how to do it please?
i just want to insert some unicode texts with different colour and font size into my clip. black and white subtitle is ok but i like it better since i saw dvd slideshow gui, and another problem is srt to ssa convert can't handle unicode

[tin2tin]

i used a program, srt to ssa converter to convert .srt into .ssa, i opened with media player classic and it pop up message "vsfilter error line 6" and media classic shown "Textsub: can't open textsub.ssa"

how to do it please?
i just want to insert some unicode texts with different colour and font size into my clip. black and white subtitle is ok but i like it better since i saw dvd slideshow gui, and another problem is srt to ssa convert can't handle unicode sad.gif

I'm not really sure how I can help you. If you used some other program to convert srt to ssa, then it's properly those people behind that program you should ask your questions.

However if you ask how to add colors to your subtitles and change fonts and their sizes and such in DSG you should take a look at the tutorial video(4 min. mark) a few posts above this one(https://forum.videohelp.com/topic245071-870.html#2004298). Most of the ass tags are useable: http://aegisub.cellosoft.com/docs/ASS_Tags

Alternatively you can export to .all and get a m2v and a ssa etc. which I believe can be loaded into some subtitle editing program like Aegisub to get much more control subtitle styling.

[Edit: The tutorial is now up on Blip.tv in a higher quality here!]

[tin2tin]

Thanks to Onno the Dutch translation has been fully updated and thanks to Centauri39 the German translation has been fully updated. French still needs 124 strings.
https://translations.launchpad.net/dvdslideshowgui/trunk/+pots/dvdslideshowgui
All other languages have 360 strings yet to be translated.

[tin2tin]

While I'm waiting/hoping for some more translations to be completed, here's a preview of improved zoom quality in the upcoming version of DSG. Texts are done in DSG too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE-XejlByWU
The stuttering is thanks to YouTube.

[hoinar]

Hi tin2tin... tried to insert a simple avs script

AVISource("c:\1.avi")
h1=crop(0,0,1280,360)
h2=h1.FlipVertical
StackVertical(h1,h2)

after a couple of image slides... some questions:

1. could not edit the script from dsg: right-click on "test.avs" slide -> slide settings -> use avs icon... the result was a new blank window in Avsp with the following messages (after I closed it):



dsg could not realise that the script path is C:\test.avs ?



Neither the avs button from menu bar didn't work.

2. would it be possible to add subtitle to an avs / avi slide ?

[tin2tin]

Are you using 0.9.2.7? I can't remember, if I fixed that in that version or it's in the upcoming version.

It's is not possible add subtitles from DSG to avi/avs, but you can do that in avisynth - check the Subtitle avisynth command.

[hoinar]

Are you using 0.9.2.7? I can't remember, if I fixed that in that version or it's in the upcoming version.

Yes, I'm using the latest version so, probably, this need to be fixed...