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Photo slideshows and Flash?
Erik Markov, Photographer
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Kokomo | IN | | Posted: 4:19 PM on 04.02.08 |
->> I've been looking around for a program that does what Soundslides does, but with one extra option, allows more photos than SS. I'll explain what I mean.
SS will take as many photos it seems as you want, but it seems like once you get to about 2 minutes, trying to work with the photos gets impossible because they get so small. As far as I know Joe Weiss hasn't put a scrollbar into SS Plus of the thumnail viewer at the bottom of the program. I understand why he hasn't, its meant to be a program for quick shows. I use it a lot, works great, love it.
Now that I've played around with it tho, done some audio etc, I want to go further. I'd love to play around with some time lapse subjects. I've got some ideas for stuff coming up this spring and summer I would like to do. Problem is good time lapse stuff could take a few hundred images, prob way more than SS can handle.
I've got Adobe Premiere Elements, haven't used it a lot but it seems like it might work, except it doesn't export Flash. Doesn't seem like Imovie does either. And I know what the ideal solution is, Final Cut Pro. Company won't buy it, I don't have that kinda cash lying around.
I would prefer to export as Flash since that seems the easiest for our website. I'd rather spend the time working on the photos than learning Flash. Anyone have any other programs that do photos and audio? |
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Thomas Boydston, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Conroe | Tx | United States | Posted: 4:26 PM on 04.02.08 |
->> If you want to do some time lapse, look into QuickTime Pro. Karl Anderson ( http://www.sportsshooter.com/kanderson ) did quite a few pieces a while back using a D2Hs and QuickTime Pro, and if he reads this he might be kind enough to add more details.
Other than that, I can only tell you what not to use for an end product in Flash: Adobe/Macromedia Flash. Your files will more than likely come out huge, and compression on JPEGs kills it, unless you're willing to donate hours upon hours and learn Flash's scripting language.
Of course, why not avoid Flash and just develop some CSS skills and do a more user friendly, quicker loading website photo gallery? |
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Karl Anderson, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Lubbock | TX | USA | Posted: 5:14 PM on 04.02.08 |
| ->> Contact Joe Weiss through the soundslides message board. Tell him you would like a scroll bar in the time line (I want one too!). I've contacted him before and he was extremely helpful in resolving my issues. He emailed me personally, added the feature i needed AND he did it in about 3 days. |
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Peter Huoppi, Photographer
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Pomfret | CT | USA | Posted: 5:27 PM on 04.02.08 |
| ->> Quicktime Pro will do time lapse for you, so will Final Cut Express. You'll need a separate program to encode the Flash Video files, though. I've done it with FCE and exported through Flash CS3 encoder. |
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Karl Stolleis, Photographer
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Santa Fe | NM | USA | Posted: 6:16 PM on 04.02.08 |
->> final cut express - 180 bucks for time lapse
as for Flash - it is an amazing product but most of the complaints in the world are related to the fact that folks just dont know the power - comments like "it will make your files huge" are uninformed. Problem is that making things work well in Flash will take a lot. Just ask a professional flash developer. |
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David Stephenson, Photographer
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Lexington | Ky | USA | Posted: 7:07 PM on 04.02.08 |
->> Erik,
You can use the software you have, including the good suggestion above to use Quicktime to create an "image sequence". Whatever software you use, if you export it as just about anything (like .mov), it can be coded into an .flv by a good number of inexpensive programs like On2Flix Standard (~$40) and Visual Hub (~$25). Then you'll be able to use the .flv in Flash.
David |
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