I need help. I've been looking for a quality slide show I can transfer to a DVD for a graduation/wedding/etc.. I've down loaded a bunch of trial versions and the best I've seen so far is Windows Movie Maker and/or Photostory 10. I can't believe that these are the best slideshows out there. Does anyone have any suggestions. I'm looking for more than the standard Music to pictures.
pro show works very well, a bit overkill for most. adobe has a nice slideshow with its 4.o. kill two birds for the price of one.
Have used pro show gold, I like it as well. If you just want a slideshow software may also want to try ulead's Ulead® CD & DVD PictureShow @ http://www.ulead.com/products/runme.htm#dvd have used this software as well, its not bad. A little cheaper then proshow gold but I think its not as good. But thats just me. Its amazing what you can do with a slideshow
You might want to purchase PicturesToExe while it's still inexpensive. This very excellent and extremely powerful slideshow software is due any day for a public beta release of version 5.0 which is going to be something "very" special. If you purchase it now for about $24 you will be able to upgrade to version 5.0 for no additional cost. All upgrades of PicturesToExe (P2E) are free for life (you won't find that with many other software programs).... http://www.wnsoft.com Lin
The PhotoToExe is good and all but I think that Dave is asking for more of a professional type software, not just an Exe. file.
You guys are probobly going to make fun of me for this but i kind of like Picasa2. http://picasa.google.com/ its got a decent slideshow maker and it works great for organizing photos. CG
I'm not certain what you mean by "more profession" - by the way it not "photoToexe" it's "PicturesToExe" PicturesToExe (P2E) has been around over five years and is used by a huge number of professional photographers, myself included. You can do things with PicturesToexe that can't currently be done with "any" other slideshow software including software costing well over $1000.00 such as Sony's (Formerly Sound Forge) Vegas Video and PhotoDex's ProShow Producer. I've used Vegas Video (Sony), ProShow Gold PhotoDex), PicturesToExe (Wnsoft), and Media@Show (Cyberlink) each since early pre-release beta versions were available. I'm assuming that you are thinking because of the name that this product only creates executable files which is quite incorrect. To a professional photographer the "most" important issue about displaying one's images is "quality" of image. Though you "can" place your images on a DVD (low resolution), most of us prefer to create high resolution image displays. On a Windows based PC that means an executable file for either display on the monitor or for projection via one or more technologies including but not limited to an LCD projector. To do this justice takes a high resolution output. Though products such as ProShow (Gold and Producer) and Vegas Video can create executable files, they and virtually every other presentation slideshow program which has Ken Burns Effects (with the exception of P2E) render internally at a resolution of 720x576 pixels. When a larger display size is requested for creating an executable, the 720x576 resolution video is interpolated to whichever output is chosen by the person creating the show. P2E has the ability to render at high resolutions thus creating far superior image quality for output on other than DVD or web. For DVD it really doesn't matter that the rendering was at 720x576 because the limitation is the television receiver. In the US this is a 525 line interlaced standard. Take a ProShow or Vegas Video output and play it on your high definition display then do likewise with a P2E output and the differences are immediately apparent. There is a reason that P2E is the overwhelming choice of the winner's of European and UK slideshow contests. P2E outputs an AVI video and gives the user a choice of any codec present as well as their own proprietary codec which is compatible with a number of burning engines. The competition which has their own internal DVD burning engines do not allow this but limit the user to a choice of older mpeg1 or mpeg2 output. P2E allows the user low level access and the ability to internally call objects including foreign executable code so that you can seamlessly run other programs from within a P2E slideshow. No other presentation slideshow program can do this. Believe me when I tell you that P2E is VERY professional. Don't let the $24 price tag and free lifetime upgrades fool you - this is some dynamite code. Wnsoft has just released beta 2 for testers and for anyone who wants to learn this program. It has some features which will knock your socks off. Here's a little sample I've done in P2E beta 1 showing some of the myriad possibilities. Suggest a decent 3D video card for this. Download is zipped executable - about 12 megabytes.... http://www.lin-evans.net/p2e/hidebehind.zip Best regards, Lin
Nowhere in your thread did you mention that it can be put on DVD in order to played through a Television I think this is what dave is looking for. Sorry if this sounds rude but the amount of time you spent on your resopnse sounds like you may be a spammer trying to push your product.
Sorry, but you apparently didn't read my response. I said very plainly that the program outputs an AVI file using "any" codec available to the user. If you really understood how DVD's were created you would know that this means you can make DVD's from "any" AVI file. As far as your veiled insinuation and refering to me as a "spammer" I think you really need to get a clue. PicturesToExe is written by a development team in Russia. I'm a photographer in Colorado and have nothing to do with the product except as I plainly stated. Let me refresh your memory. I have "used" the software since early pre-release beta over five years. I have used ProShow Gold since pre-release beta. I have used Vegas Video since pre release beta and I have used Media@Show since first release version. It seems to me that you are looking for an argument and you will simply have to go somewhere else. You're the one who responded to my simple suggstion that the OP take a look at PicturesToExe as an alternative to other suggestions with your comment implying that it wasn't a "professional product" when it was clear that you knew nothing about it because you didn't even remember the name of the program...... It you don't know then ask - but you appear to have an agenda dude - take it somewhere else. Lin
Sorry Lin I did not mean for you to go all psycho in the forum. :0 But if you read the link you provided for AVI files it clearly states you need a codec to play them. They "WILL NOT" Play on a standalone DVD Player (unless it has the codec built in). They have to be made up of VOB files and VTS files. If your knowledge of DVD structure is anything like your knowledge of photography then man you need some help. Peace out. P.S your slide show is a little dry and cheezy looking.
