mj_hixx Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Hey all.....Does anyone know of free software to use in studio for slideshow presentation of images? I want to be able to show images side-by-side for comparison. I have seen a few that are very expensive, and also tried some demo's. Just wondering if I could get one without paying $200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anner Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 I have seen some amazingly creative slideshows that were simply done with plain-ol' Powerpoint. If you're a mac user, you have iMovie that will produce great results as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smittyatthebeach Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Hav you tried Picassa? It's free and made by google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmi Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_baker8 Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Photo Story 3 for windows! I love it. It is a free download from microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Also like photodesk proshow gold: incredibly fast to create a veru professionnal slide show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj_hixx Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 Thanks everyone for your input on slideshows......I am checking into these......Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason_t Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 I also highly recomment photodex photoshow. Its not way too expensive, one client and its paid for. Jason T Blue Mountain Photo Works www.bluemtnphoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey mcallister Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Sonic MyDVD Slide shows play on TV & Computer. Tiff/JPG's are also copied. Quick too produce. Render is slow. Best 'Burn' there is cause sonic wrote the book on DVD mastering...so it'll run on any DVD player. It not a MPEG 4 render like photodex stuff. MyDVD is much higher quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_ridout1 Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 There is only one program and that would be ProShow Gold Here is a slideshow using the latest version. You decide if you have seen anything better in regards to performance slideshow software. Mark Ridout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_ridout1 Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 I forgot to give you the link to my slideshow. Here you go. http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.html?fl=2203691&alb=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel.rincon Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 For a long time I have being using Powerpoint, very powerful but tedious in importing pictures. Some weeks ago I moved to Picasa, but it has IMHO a serious problem in saving the show. Several times I lost everything and needed to start from scratch. Last week I tried Proshow Gold. It is powerful in reorganizing slides and fast to create good DVDs and VCDs. But it has a main drawback: the quality of the pictures is extremely bad to show in a computer screen. Let me share with you my workflow, since I may have been doing something very wrong. I changed the size of the original pictures to 1572 x 1024, a bit more than the screen to allow movement of some of them with picture quality and detail. I started the show (Show Options) as 1572 x 1024. Finally I created an executable of 1280 x 768, which is the actual pixel size of my monitor. Horrible blurred images is the result. I am desperately seeking for any mistake I might have done. If I do not find an answer, I will have to move to Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 or to Adobe Premiere. And of course will make as bad publicity as I can about this so popular slideshow software. I cannot believe that this software is only designed for slideshows in TVS (low resolution) but offers no solution for slideshow in computer monitor and proyector. Thank you very much, Manuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_ridout1 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 f I do not find an answer, I will have to move to Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 or to Adobe Premiere. And of course will make as bad publicity as I can about this so popular slideshow software. I cannot believe that this software is only designed for slideshows in TVS (low resolution) but offers no solution for slideshow in computer monitor and proyector. Thank you very much, Manuel. Manuel,It's time to move forward with Photodex and not backwards with the other programs you have mentioned. Why is ProShow so popular? Because it works and works great. I am not sure what you are doing wrong? You are sizing similar to what I am doing and I can see hairs sticking out of the brides arm it's so sharp. Perhaps it is your computer.Good luck.Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergey_egorov Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Proshow Gold is absolutely unusable software. Who do not agree - please run it, add 1000-1500 photos (5 mpix for example) and... come back here after 2-3-4 days depending on your PC... Insane perfomance :) I use MemoriesOnTv which is far better and faster. Also you can use external MPEG2 encoder with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_ridout1 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Proshow Gold is absolutely unusable software. Who do not agree - please run it, add 1000-1500 photos (5 mpix for example) and... come back here after 2-3-4 days depending on your PC... Insane perfomance :) I use MemoriesOnTv which is far better and faster. Also you can use external MPEG2 encoder with it. You must be kidding? Who are you trying to kill with a 1500 image slideshow? At approx. 4 seconds per slide minimum(thats a 2 second view with a 2 second transition)your show would be 1 hour long! YAWN... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergey_egorov Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 You must be kidding? Who are you trying to kill with a 1500 image slideshow? At approx. 4 seconds per slide minimum(thats a 2 second view with a 2 second transition)your show would be 1 hour long! YAWN... No, I'm serious. So you agree that you cannot do such a long slideshow with this "product"? Great that you just confirmed this :) No, it would be 1 - 1,5 hours long and it will be my family photo album or whatever. Whats the problem? Why this product is not able to do this, while its competitors has no problems? So its just a toy for a kid, no more. And at the moment the only who it can kill as you said is me who tried to put 1000 photos into it and ended with uninstalling this "great fast program". I wrote to their support asking why it is so slow and what I'm doing wrong - no reply, nice support. I searched the web and found that a lot of people confirmed this and some lucky ones got reply from support that "this is how our new version works". Great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel.rincon Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 My experience is that a decent slideshow is 15 minutes long, 30 minutes if you are really talented and more than one hour only if your name is Francis Ford Coppola. That means a maximum of 200 pictures, 400 or 800. More than that creates enemies for a lifetime. Manuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogoflash Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 I agree with Manuel. I don't think 1k picture slide show is practical for most of the slide show presentations. In my expreience Proshow Gold is easy to use and yields a good result when viewed on tv. I usually create a smaller jpeg files so that it processes a little faster since I can't really tell the difference between the high quality jpeg and down grade ones on the tv. I have 1.3ghz amd processor with an average graphic card but it seems like the process time is reasonable - watch some tv, play with my son.. and it is done including DVD burning. I paid $65 and it's living up to its price in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_ridout1 Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Ok....so let me get it right. Over 1 hour long? and ProShow dosn't work. Thank god if thats the case....you may save a friendship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenda_logan Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 I just got through watching mark ridouts slide show and i have to say it was AWESOME. i watched the whole thing. it was very clear and so creative. very beautiful photography also. it's 8 minutes long and i was not bored in the least. fly-text and creative transitions. i'm so impressed. i have the demo version and just tried burning a dvd and it burned but my dvd player on tv said invalid disk. it could be the burner (or the operator)cuz i just hooked up the burner for the first time today..i know nothing about this media. any suggestions? oh and u guys really need to go see his slide show to look at his photos if nothing else. thanks brenda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl_schlanger Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 First, Mark Ridout's slide presentation at Photodex.com is about the best program of its type I've ever seen, and I've been doing a lot of such shows since the 1970s. Everything about the approach -- the music selection (is it custom, Mark?), the exquisite lighting, the color transformations within slides, the transitions between slides, the tasteful and appropriate use of captioning, the model selection, the perfect expressions on most models -- what more can I say? I liked the thing a lot. Watched it 3 or 4 times in the past couple days, trying to figure out how I'd make it better, but I couldn't. And yes, I just bought the software he used. Question: has anyone used Articulate, the slideshow program that lets you stream Powerpoint presentations and retain most of its animations? A client wants me to buy it, but at $500 a copy, I'm hesitant. I'm hoping ProShow can do the job as well or better for under $100. I'd appreciate anyone's input on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_diehl Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I've tried every product I can find that has a trial version (about 20 products). PhotoDex has produced the best quality show of all the products I've evaluated. The big PhotoDex drawback for me is in using web shows. Viewers who come to the web via proxy servers generally cannot see the show. Photodex confirmed this limitation to me. I did not test production to a DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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