Magic Kingdom Slide Show

[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.

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?