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Help on double checking all Mac OS9 Slideshow progams to buy
Tom Braid, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Edmonton | AB | Canada | Posted: 12:43 AM on 04.14.04 |
->> I need to double check on the available Mac OS9 slideshow programs and what is available. There are very few but they are out there!!
I started a thread back in Dec 2003 that went really well with tons of responses on the different programs for all the platforms. But I need help on the OS9 programs.
I am heading into the 2004 WCNPA Conference and I will be doing a presentation where I will go down a list of programs that you can get and use to create EASY to make slideshows. Of course easy for some is hard for others and it really can come down to what you have used before.
I need to double check
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There is iMovie for Mac OS9 and OSX but finding a place to download an OS9 copy of iMovie is really hard to fine these days. I can not find one in fact, so if you know the address of any place please let me know.
* Bert uses iMovie then exports it back into a camcorder to play at a better projection quality to an audience. Why this works better is a mystery to me but it does work better than leaving it in the computer as just an IMovie
Other Sports Shooter members listed some programs;
* Conor O'Healy has used iPhoto and exporting a series of photos to a QuickTime movie. It can only be made in a Mac, but played in PC's with QuickTime
* Sarah Phipps listed Live Slideshow www.liveslideshow.com and it is a duel platform program Mac/PC program that some like. It does list OS9 and OSX as well as Windows 98 and XP. There is not another program out there that I know of that lists so many platform uses.
*Michael J. Treola, listed iView MediaPro www.iview-multimedia.com it is pricey but the slideshow making is an extra program inside a much bigger and multi use program.
* Roger Hornback mentioned Kai's Power SHOW by ScanSoft but it has not been sold or updated that I can find for a couple of years now. If anyone knows if it is still available anywhere please let me know.
Thanks for the help!!! :-)
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Alan Stewart, Photographer
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Corydon | IN | USA | Posted: 1:00 AM on 04.14.04 |
->> Photomechanic 3 (not sure of the exact 3.???) has a slide show option. No music or anything like that, but you didn't mention whether or not that was important.
Graphic Converter's slide show is pretty much the same as PM3's... |
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Tom Braid, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Edmonton | AB | Canada | Posted: 12:46 PM on 04.14.04 |
| ->> Thanks Alan. There is Nikon View as well, it is a little slow but it does work. |
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Michael J. Treola, Photographer
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Neptune | NJ | USA | Posted: 2:02 PM on 04.14.04 |
->> Tom,
When I used OS 9.0 I used Kai's powershow religiously for year for a number of reasons. Mainly because it was really easy to use through their interface and their transitions were so S M O O T H ... that is was sick putting everything else for OS 9 to shame. I easily built very complex slide shows easily that ran on it's own, mouse click to advance or I'd output directly to VHS tape. I had done a tone of family, bride/groom and special event slide shows for people who just wowed over the results. The work I was doing on the shows was growing out of control to the point of where I could have started a side business but time didn't allow. I've since stopped doing them except for my family and personal needs.
Now being an OS X user I use Iview Media Pro as you already know. Since you've seen my post you know how much I like the program and will just say this. The 90 bucks you spend on the program isn't 90 bucks spent on just a slide show. Iview for me is a slide viewer, an image cataloger, and HTML gallery maker all of which is customizable to a degree. It reads every kind of image or movie file I've thrown at it and for me is one of the most valuable programs on my computer aside from my image editing and communications tools. I promise you an investment here will go a long long way in your workflow.
Scansoft stopped making Kai's years ago. It is still available from their website http://www.scansoft.com/powershow/ however and is a steal at 19.99.
If I had to choose between Iview and Kai's I'd easily choose Iview without hesitation today. In all actuality there are hundreds of slide shows on the market today its just finding one that fits your needs and budget.
I'd take a look over at www.versiontracker.com and search there too. Sometimes you can find nice, cheap or free programs for the occasional user.
Hope this helps
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Tom Braid, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Edmonton | AB | Canada | Posted: 2:40 PM on 04.14.04 |
->> iView's webpage photo gallery building abilities are really nice and clean. Our last placement student (and now our summer intern) SS member Sean Kilpatrick uses it and the pages are easy to make and nice to look at.
The bottom line is if you want a slideshow making program that gives you music,timing and all the bells and whistles you need to be running either OSX or Windows XP. If you want great controls from OS9 programs you are not going to get them. Unless you do the iMovie thing.
Just knowing for once and for all it is good to know!!! So many shooters are banging there heads against it trying to make things work.
I have talked to many shooters and spending 12 to 40 (or way more) hours on a slideshow for a conference is not unusual and then it can bomb when you get there. That happened to me in front of 375 people a year ago. After that I have had a bee in my bonnet so to speak about this subject!!! I went PC running XP and with a $59US program my problems were solved. My slideshows rock now and they only take 4 to 8 hours for a very high-end one with tons of bells and whistles and precise timing too. You can make one in minutes if you want too as well but the high production ones are addictive!! :-)
Michael if you make the Luau maybe we can have a "Slideshow Off" in the lounge one night? That could be fun. On your mark, get set...... crash!! :-) |
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