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CD portfolios with multimedia
Kevin Liles, Photographer
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Griffin | GA | USA | Posted: 11:31 PM on 08.21.06 |
->> Now that multimedia presentations are becoming an essential part of the portfolio, I am hoping to get some suggestions as the best way to structure a CD portfolio that includes multimedia (created with Soundslides).
I know books are the best way to display work, but many job postings specifically ask for CD portfolios.
For singles photos, many photo editors want jpegs numbered and placed in a folder that they can simply drop in PhotoMechanic. But what do you do about multimedia folders? The CD can get thrown in the trash in a hurry if the viewer/editor doesn't know to open the index.html file with a browser.
Is html the only way? |
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Jonathan Palmer, Photographer
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Decatur | AL | United States | Posted: 11:52 PM on 08.21.06 |
->> it might be the only way, because i cannot think of another now but that is ok just make a html page that simplifies your portfolio. just make smaller images within a html page and link them to pages on the disk that have images in galleries (photoshop make a quick and dirty one also try under the automate function and web photo gallery, or for a slicker show http://www.slideshowpro.net/, the browser the editor uses will know that it is looking for files in folders from the CD, (better to drage folder to desktop) and not the internet. Name the html page something like Portfolio.htm or something. the premise will be the same as the internet just you will use the computer's hard drive as the server. Not to say my site is anything but amatuer but if someone wanted me to send them stuff fast i could and i feel like it is easy to navigate. One day my buddy will fix our host server and there will not be a huge address.
http://webpages.charter.net/jonathanpalmer/PalmerPhotos/
after all that blabber the answer to your question is maybe not the only way but it may be the best. |
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David Brooks, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 2:42 AM on 08.22.06 |
->> Kevin,
Adobe Director MX, is an awesome program... very powerful it can do what you are looking for...you can build a soundslides looking presentation, with more control and customization, (it can handle video) and you can still put your images in a seperate file on the CD if your prospective boss isn't into multimedia, that's what I have done, but I also include a simple text file that's named readme.rtf that explains everything in plain english.
http://www.adobe.com/products/director/productinfo/overview/
DVD Studio Pro
simpler than Director kind of like iDVD...
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/
Showit
this program is like soundslides but better... it hasn't received the same publicity, but it's very simple yet produces quality, customizable slide shows with pans and zooms that you control. I know you were looking for something for CD's but it is always nice to refer someone to a mm project live online while they are waiting for your portfolio.
http://www.showitfast.com/products.php?op=web2
I Hope that helps
David |
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Eric Swist, Photographer
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The Woodlands | TX | USA | Posted: 10:22 PM on 08.22.06 |
| ->> Kevin, I also am looking for something similar. Something simple that will just run off the CD, real minimalistic. |
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Jim Leary, Photographer
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Island | NY | USA | Posted: 11:09 PM on 08.22.06 |
->> Its been a while but when I was working with Mac computers there was an autorun script that you would include on a CD. It contained a simple script that automatically opened the html page named in the script when someone inserted the CD in the computer. From there it worked like a website but was all contained on the CD.
I haven't done any research lately but there's probably an autorun for CDs going into a PC or perhaps either the PC or Mac. Do any of the aforementioned programs provide that automatic function opening up the first HTML page on the CD? |
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Grant Blankenship, Photographer
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Macon | GA | USA | Posted: 12:02 PM on 08.23.06 |
->> Eric,
In your using SWiSH Pix, have you found that you can stick the fla produced by Soundslides into one of your galleries? Meaning, are you able to go through some singles then get to a story and have it play on the same stage used by the singles?
Does this make sense? |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Belvidere | IL | USA | Posted: 10:21 AM on 08.31.06 |
->> David, thanks for the link to Showit... it has some cool effects that I wish Soundslides had. I'll have to download the trial version and play around with it when I get home tonight.
Do you recall offhand if it has either:
* the ability to load a pre-made template for the index.html file, or
* a way to "anchor" (for lack of a better term) a specific photo to a specific spot in the audio track so it will stay in place regardless of how other photos are arranged, added, lengthened, shortened, or deleted? |
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