Magic Kingdom Slide Show

[boBQuincy]

I added this to the end of someother threads but didn't hear anything back, so here it is again. :)

ProShow Gold is good for video shows, but the size and quality of the video is not as good as an exe that displays the images at a high resolution.

I use ProShow for it's wide variety of effects, mostly zooms, pans, and fades, which the exe has trouble with.

Here is one I recently completed (about 7 MB):

http://www.mindspring.com/~image-ination/wdw/mk_1b7d_2m.wmv

[wdwmom2]

LOVED :love: watching the slideshow!!!! It makes me realize how much I miss Disney. I haven't been there since '04:sad1: .

[Miller1412]

Cool, how did you do the transitions in the fireworks shots? I've seen lots of slideshow movies, and that's a new one for me! I love that!!

[Dan Murphy]

That was nice, Bob. :thumbsup2

[boBQuincy]

Cool, how did you do the transitions in the fireworks shots? I've seen lots of slideshow movies, and that's a new one for me! I love that!!

It's a new one for me too, I am always learning new ways to use ProShow! ;)

The effect uses two images of the castle, made from the same original image. For the one without fireworks, the sky is painted in over the fireworks. The upwards moving transition makes it look like the fireworks are going off.

I'm think going to use that effect again, for Illuminations!

[Miller1412]

:thumbsup2 Cool! I'm making an MGM slide show today, I'll try it with Fantasmic. Thanks!!

[pixie dust 112]

Thanks for sharing! That was wonderful!

[Master Mason]

Very nice show Bob. I am going to have to invest in some software and start making some of these..... One more thing on my list of things I need to do :)

[EpcotKilterFan]

Bob it is amazing. I use Pro show gold also and will have to try that one out!!

Show us your next one soon!!

Debbie

[jann1033]

nice job Bob!

[Groucho]

Nice job, now you need to get some of the shots posted up somewhere where we can see them better - a 352x288 WMV does lose some of the original photo's detail. ;)

I'm not sure how you guys find the time to do video slideshows, it's taking me a ton of time to go through my photos as is, and that's with me not doing much post-processing (basically zero Photoshop, just Irfanview and the Pentax/Silkypix RAW software)... doesn't anyone have jobs out there? :confused3

[Disneynut322]

Great job, Bob! :thumbsup2 I really liked the fireworks effect!

[Gdad]

Very nice. :)

[Master Mason]

It's a new one for me too, I am always learning new ways to use ProShow! ;)


Bob,

What version do you have?

[fostrmom2mny]

I greatly enjoyed this!! Sure makes the memories come flooding back. Thank you for sharing.
Gerri

[poconoboatniks]

Bob,

Great slide show. I love the Haunted Mansion slides and music.

Pocono

[boBQuincy]

Bob,

What version do you have?

I recently downloaded 3.0 to update my 2.5, but didn't use any of the new features in this show.

[Marc A.]

Great job, a good teaser when I need a reminder that it's only months away.
Thanks

[tadamom]

That was AWESOME!!!!!! I nearly started crying with the castle and fireworks parts. Seeing the castle always gets me weepy!! I am going to have to show this to my hubbie - I want him to do something like this after our trip this spring!!! Again, great job!!!

[MarkBarbieri]

Great slideshow. Very creative use of effects.

This is a great example of what can be done when you use your computer to generate a slideshow rather than having it just display the photos as a "static" slideshow. As Groucho pointed out, however, the drawback is that the resolution is much lower.

[DebºoºS]

Really nice slideshow!!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[boBQuincy]

As Groucho pointed out, however, the drawback is that the resolution is much lower.

Yep, that's the issue with the videos. The online one is really small due to my limited webspace, maybe I need to try SmugMug or ? The DVD version is 720 pixels (still not enough), if HD is good for 1080 that might help a lot.

I tried the exe file but my PC can't run it smoothly, the long pans and zooms hang up. It's a decent PC with a separate video card, separate sound card, and 2 GB of ram. If that can't run a show then not much can I suppose.

We need a better solution! :(

[MarkBarbieri]

The DVD version is 720 pixels (still not enough), if HD is good for 1080 that might help a lot.

Don't confuse your 720s. DVD is 720 lines of horizontal resolution and 480 lines of vertical resolution. HD is either 1280 lines of horizontal resolution and 720 lines of vertical resolution or 1960 lines of horizontal resoultion and 1080 lines of vertical resolution. The 1080 vertical line version of HD is progressive (only 540 lines are shown at a time with the two different sets of lines shown alternately). The new HD DVD and BlueRay disks are 1080 lines vertically, but they are progressive scan - every line is drawn every time.

[Master Mason]

Bob,

I got this program, and threw together a slide show of the kids football games. The family was wowed... and I only spent about 45 minutes on it. Great Program, Looking forward to really learning what it can do.

I set it at the high end of everything I could check.... and it looked great on my 56 widescreen.

[Groucho]

Don't confuse your 720s. DVD is 720 lines of horizontal resolution and 480 lines of vertical resolution. HD is either 1280 lines of horizontal resolution and 720 lines of vertical resolution or 1960 lines of horizontal resoultion and 1080 lines of vertical resolution. The 1080 vertical line version of HD is progressive (only 540 lines are shown at a time with the two different sets of lines shown alternately). The new HD DVD and BlueRay disks are 1080 lines vertically, but they are progressive scan - every line is drawn every time.
I hate to keep nitpicking but it's 1920x1080, not 1960x1080. :thumbsup2

As for Bob's comments about PC power, I have a home theater set up in my basement, all run off an HTPC (aka home theater PC), showing lots of high-definition stuff, so I'm fairly familiar with this stuff. Transport streams, etc. You pretty much need around 3gHz (or equivalent) to display HD content smoothly. I'm using an Athlon XP 3200+ and it was just barely enough, but I recently swapped in a newer video card that does high-def and h264 decoding in hardware and that helped a lot. If you have a modern video card, go into your DVD playback software and make sure that video acceleration is enabled - it's often not by default.

My projector is "only" 1280x720, but boy, you can really tell the difference between HD and DVDs on the big screen. (Don't buy that nonsense about newer DVD players giving you a "near-HD" image - it ain't!) The 1080p projectors are dropping in price quickly so hopefully I'll be able to afford to upgrade one of these days without breaking the bank.

The only problem then is trying to make your photos fit a 16:9 screen - I have the same issue putting pictures on my wife's Sony PSP, just at a much lower resolution.

[Alacrity]

Nice show! Gonna have to look up that software you use! I like the way the tunes go with the pictures...and the effects! Clever!

I've made a few shows using Photoshop Elements but I don't think it has the same abilities.

Here's one from December...http://dbeedle.com/Photos/Dis-Dec2006/DisDec2006.wmv

[boBQuincy]

Don't confuse your 720s. DVD is 720 lines of horizontal resolution and 480 lines of vertical resolution. HD is either 1280 lines of horizontal resolution and 720 lines of vertical resolution or 1960 lines of horizontal resoultion and 1080 lines of vertical resolution.

Oops... :)

My projector is 1280 x 720 native so photos should look pretty good at that size. The latest version of ProShow provides output in HD video format so I am going to try that and see how it looks.

So many fun things to do, why does working for a living have to interfere so much?