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stone-simple slideshow software?
Matt Cashore, Photographer
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South Bend | IN | USA | Posted: 3:02 PM on 05.31.09 |
->> Always after alliteration awards...
Anyway, I have a semi-regular assignment coming up where I have to get candids of every attendee at a conference. The conference folks take my photos and make a slideshow to play at the closing banquet...you know the drill. Only this time around I have been tasked with putting together the slideshow.
Apparently the guy who used to put together this slideshow is not available this time around and no one knows what software he used. I have only done slideshow-type projects in Final Cut Express, and that's very time consuming. I'm looking for something really quick & simple--drag & drop photos without any cropping or re-sizing and have them play back at a set duration with dissolve transitions. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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Bruce Twitchell, Photographer
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Coeur d'Alene | ID | USA | Posted: 3:06 PM on 05.31.09 |
->> iphoto for mac
photostory by microsoft for PC
both very easy to use. not a lot of features, but enough.
If you want something a little fancier, you might look at the online animoto.
http://animoto.com/ |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 3:07 PM on 05.31.09 |
->> Photo Mechanic has this feature built-in. Put the photos you want into a folder, select them all, then Image -> Slide Show. Options include duration, random shuffle and apply crop.
You can also do a "live" slide show which will monitor a folder and add them to the slide show in realtime. Probably only useful if you have a wireless solution or a network drive, but it's there. |
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Matt Cashore, Photographer
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South Bend | IN | USA | Posted: 3:28 PM on 05.31.09 |
->> Thanks, I just realized what I failed to explain fully in my question: The slide show will not be played off my computer. It needs to be in a format that can be burned onto a disc and played on anything. If the slideshow can be exported into a Quicktime file I can burn it using iDVD, so I guess my question should have been: What software will let me drag-n-drop AND export to QT? I use the Photo Mechanic 'live' slideshow all the time--It's great, but I don't see a way to save & export the slide show as its own self-contained thingy.
Sorry, I try to triple-check the questions I post here for thoroughness but it seems like I always end up missing some critical element. |
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Bruce Twitchell, Photographer
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Coeur d'Alene | ID | USA | Posted: 3:57 PM on 05.31.09 |
| ->> iPhoto will export as a .mov which is a Quicktime file. |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington | IL | United States | Posted: 5:59 PM on 05.31.09 |
->> I have an el-cheapo dvd player attached to my TV. I burn the images to a CD or DVD and they play automatically on it.
If I put that same media in my PC, Windows asks me what I want to do when the disc is inserted. One of the options is to play the images as a slideshow.
The only software required was the software to burn the images to the media. |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 6:27 PM on 05.31.09 |
->> iPhoto...I just made one last night
pretty easy |
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Matt Cashore, Photographer
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South Bend | IN | USA | Posted: 7:47 PM on 05.31.09 |
| ->> Much appreciated. Just did a test run in iPhoto and it was every bit as simple as I'd hoped. Export to Quicktime, the whole ball o' wax. Sorta funny that with Photo Mechanic, Photoshop, Lightroom, etc., etc., I've NEVER used iPhoto until just now. Anway, thanks! |
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Lyle Aspinall, Photographer
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Calgary | AB | Canada | Posted: 10:41 PM on 05.31.09 |
| ->> I'm glad you found a solution, but I figured I'd throw in my two cents: SoundSlides has a QT plugin that makes the conversion dead easy. |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 3:25 PM on 06.01.09 |
->> Use iMovie after making an event in iPhoto. Then just drag in the photos.
It's fully automatic, but there's a ton of manual overrides to pick Ken Burns points, crops, fits, transitions, themes, etc, and tons of output options. |
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