[ale] Slide Show Software[OT]

[Jeff Hubbs]

But that is going to *so* 5ux0r, trying to put slides on video.  If
they've already got a film scanner (and if the Nikon Coolscans ever get
supported in Linux, it'll be hard for me to resist), they've solved the
slide-to-digital conversion part.  It just seemed to me that the
ImageMagick suite ought to be able to get from there to an MPEG. 
There's still the matter of the cues in the audio track, and were it me,
I would try to isolate the timing of those cues in Audacity and write
the times down, and write up a script that told the ImageMagick tools
what to do when.  If you could get that to MPEG, audio included, you
could go straight to DVD without an intermediate analog step, couldn't
you?

Jeff

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 22:57, aaron wrote:
> As a tremendous time saver and to make distribution less dependent on 
> proprietary computers or software,  you might consider recording the slide 
> shows via digital video camera or composing your slide shows in a computer  
> editing program like iMovie and then simply publish them on VHS or DVD.  
> There may also be options through DVD authoring programs, like the iDVD 
> program that ships with OSeX Macs. Most have some level of slide show with 
> sound track capabilities, though you probably need to step up to a full 
> authoring suite like DVD Studio Pro to set individual slide timings and fully 
> control transition selections.
> 
> There may be some other, similar avenues as well. I do contract video work 
> like this for a living, so feel free to get in touch private if the DVD route 
> is appealing and you want to put my tools and expertise to use.
> 
> peace
> (because the only sane nation is a nation at peace)
> aaron
> Image Architects
> 404.315-0406
>  
> On Saturday 20 November 2004 22:10, David Corbin wrote:
> > I'm looking for a recommendation for slide show software.  I don't mean JUST 
> a 
> > program that takes a bunch of jpegs and shows them one after another.  My 
> > mother (and her friend) has a whole bunch (I'd guess 50) of slide shows (the 
> > traditiional type, with color positive films in little cardboard frames) 
> that 
> > are set to music.  The audio recording has some type (inaudiable) of signal 
> > on it that drives the two slide projectors to "change".
> > 
> > My mother and her partner have finally decided to "digitize" the shows.  She 
> > has the slide-scanner, and I'm sure I can hook up the audio and record that.  
> > But I'd like to find a piece of software that has the necessary features for 
> > her.  
> > 
> > Necessary Features:
> > 1) Support Audio w/show
> > 2) Many transition choices
> > 3) Windows compatible for creation
> > 4) Freely distribituable player or really pervasive format
> > 5) Really easy to use (my mother gets by on the computer, but a geek she's 
> > not).
> > 
> > Nice to have Features:
> > 1) Open Source
> > 2) Automatically detects existing audio "change" signal (not sure what it 
> is)
> > 
> > 
> > Anybody have any experience with such?
> > 
> > David
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