ironically load your photos to DVD
bung the DVD into DVD player which reads jpegs
hey presto a slide show with random effects
all for free
no captions though
M
"Colin_D" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Roger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for software that can do this:
>> 1 - create slideshows for DVD
>> 2 - has Ken Burns (pan-zoom) effect for the photo's
>> 3 - has the ability to put a caption above or below (i.e. not on) the
>> picture.
>> 4 - this caption should be automatically genereted from EXIF values and
>> XPdata (like title, comment)
>> 5 - not too expensive (i.e. below 100 dollar)
>>
>> This seems to be a very difficult task. Especially point 3 and 4 seem
>> almost impossible.
>>
>> Can anybody help me out here?
>>
>
> A tall order you want there. A caption not on the picture means that
the
> picture cannot fill the frame, to leave room for the title. This is up
to
> you as to how you size the image.
>
> I don't know of any program that will extract the exif data and use it
as
> a title, or from a datafile. The latter would have to be typed in
anyway,
> so you might as well type it into the slide program.
>
> You might look at PicturesToExe, an inexpensive AV program that produces
> very high quality exe files for showing via a computer and data
projector.
> It will also make DVDs, either 4:3 or 16:9, but the picture quality is
> vastly degraded on a TV compared with the computer version due to TV's
> poor pixel equivalent, about 720 * 576 or so for PAL and even less for
> NTSC.
>
> http://www.wnsoft.com
for the program, about $US 24 for the program, and
> another $20 for the DVD capability.
>
> Have a look at http://www.beechbrook.com
for downloadable shows to get
an
> idea of what it will do.
>
> Colin D.
>
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