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Hi,

I need to do a photo slide show really soon (mid Dec) for a major family party and would like to solicit your help/inputs on this.

Could you recommend me a good a slide show program (preferably free sw or virtually free). I have never done this type of thing before. I may need to add some texts to the slices to spice up the contents. MS powerpoint being a popular one, I am not sure that it is the best/manageable tool (can its enclosed photos be kept at good/high quality? If high resolution files are attached, then the file will be too big to open at once, I guess. I used MS powerpoint mainly for simple project presentation and have never done/tried to include photos. It appears to me that one cannot properly sync music to it either).

I need to add music to good quality photos (at least not the highly compressed ones) as well as being able to add some texts to the slides or between slides.

Please help.

Besides, does anyone of you have a good projector (quality needed so not to distort photo quality) that I can rent from you (hopefully, at a discounted price compared to the rental store :roll: )

Thanks a lot in advance. Any advice/assistance from you will be greatly appreciated.

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Microsoft PowerPoint.

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resize your photos first, then ... powerpoint. :D


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文章發表於 : 週五 12月 05, 2008 12:38 am 
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Thank MongXu and YuHong's suggestion.

Just worry about having to open a PP file too big to handle.

For reasonable photo quality + sound (4-5 min song) + text, do you have an idea how big it will be?
How small should I resize them to without degrading the quality? (1200 pixels? around a normal/typical monitor size)

Thanks a lot again.

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Thank MongXu and YuHong's suggestion.

Just worry about having to open a PP file too big to handle.

For reasonable photo quality + sound (4-5 min song) + text, do you have an idea how big it will be?
How small should I resize them to without degrading the quality? (1200 pixels? around a normal/typical monitor size)

Thanks a lot again.



you don't need high resoluton photos. depending on the resolution of ur projector, you can resize your photos to SVGA ( 800x 600), XGA( 1024x 768), or SXGA( 1280 x 1024). use 'save for web' function in photoshop. Anything higher than the resolution of your projector is a waste. if you are using mp3, 128bit encoding is good enough. by using wma, you can even use 64bit encoding, which will save you half the size. Usually 1 minute 128bit MP3 takes about 1MB space. You can do the math. :D


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YuHong,

Thanks for your valuable advice!! Two more questions: (1) Native size quality (if any) & (2) Aspect ration.

(1) Will it make any difference if you do/don't resize to the exact (or close to) the native sizes (SVGA ( 800x 600), XGA( 1024x 768), or SXGA( 1280 x 1024). For example, say I resize to 900 (not a native 800 or 1024....).

I don't think there is any real difference but just to be sure to avoid any possible art-effect, if any. Of course, it's important to hear from the expert. :notalking:

(2) Seem like I should trim the photos ahead to the VGA 1.3 aspect ration. Is that correct?
When opening a new PP file, one needs to specify the slide size via page setup. E.g. 35 mm slide, on-screen show, 8.5x11, custom, etc. The on-screen show has a preset value of 10inchx7.5inch (i.e. 1.33 ratio), is this the one I should choose?

thanks.

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YuHong,

Thanks for your valuable advice!! Two more questions: (1) Native size quality (if any) & (2) Aspect ration.

(1) Will it make any difference if you do/don't resize to the exact (or close to) the native sizes (SVGA ( 800x 600), XGA( 1024x 768), or SXGA( 1280 x 1024). For example, say I resize to 900 (not a native 800 or 1024....).

I don't think there is any real difference but just to be sure to avoid any possible art-effect, if any. Of course, it's important to hear from the expert. :notalking:


the best way is to try it on the projector. :D

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(2) Seem like I should trim the photos ahead to the VGA 1.3 aspect ration. Is that correct?
When opening a new PP file, one needs to specify the slide size via page setup. E.g. 35 mm slide, on-screen show, 8.5x11, custom, etc. The on-screen show has a preset value of 10inchx7.5inch (i.e. 1.33 ratio), is this the one I should choose?

thanks.


yes, you are right. :D


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Finally, the project was completed and the product chosen was: Proshow.
This is a great tool that can handle many functions: dynamic slides animation, video clip, text animation.

A slide show is a collection of still photos. If each photo can be animated dynamically, then its contents will be more interesting to watch. You can program to have a photo slide anyway you want while rotating it, panning it, zooming it... The same can be done to the texts. the combination of the slide animations and numerous between-slide transition effects will make a slide presentation a lot more powerful and interesting to watch.

I didn't have a chance to insert video clip so I can't comment anything on that.

PRO:
Can easily animate any slide at various speed, rotational angle and speed with a lot of transition effects
User can program the slide movement path with unlimited amount of freedom. This includes changing the speeds at different path segments.
User can animate the text with very little effort.
Has a PC executable format that can preserve high resolution quality.
It's not a power point.
It's not a video editing tool which will confine you to the chosen video format (e.g. 400 vertical resolution).

CON:
* Only 2D animation. That is, no 3D effect
* There ought to be a way to save your animation work from one slide into "template" so you can reuse it on another slide. However, I still can find anything about the template in "help". I found a work-around but that is not efficient at all.
* Tool does not provide some pre-defined animation effect so you can apply them quicker and easier. If that is available, then you will be able to make your own animation to make it unique and original or you can use the pre-defined animation if you just want to get the job done fast. The best would be to mix both of them.
* After a animation frame has been defined, one cannot extend the slide duration without affecting the time/duration of that or those key frames. It would be nice to allow the user to extend the slide animation duration with two options: (1) Extending the time path to the right without affecting the prior key frames. I would call this absolute time stretching. (2) Extending the time path to the right by stretching the all key frames proportionally (this is what the tool is doing now) and I would call this relative time stretching.
* There is no mechanism to allow you to lock a certain interesting musical note to a particular slide animation point. If I were the designer of this tool, I will do so by stretching the duration of the adjacent key frames to accommodate this feature.

OVERALL: I rate this product highly and believe that this is one of the best slide show programs. Note that this is NOT a power point program nor a video editing tool. It works perfectly for slide show that is photo intensive.

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thanks Paul for sharing the experience. We should have more detailed review like this. :)


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