Video/Slideshow

[auntisocial]

My son got married a few months back. They have no video from the reception (and you can't shoot video in LDS Temples), but my brother-in-law took lots of beautiful photos.

One aspect of VS that I've always enjoyed is turning a video or photo into art with their filters. This is a portion of the slideshow that I created for my son and his wife where I turn their photos into portraits.

http://media.putfile.com/Portraits-80

Regards,

Aunti

P.S. I tried putting it up on VEOH but I was unhappy with the quality and it just couldn't seem to handle the transitions.

[sjj1805]

Very nice and something that your son and daughter in law now have to treasure and show your grandchildren.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

[MrA]

My son got married a few months back. They have no video from the reception (and you can't shoot video in LDS Temples), but my brother-in-law took lots of beautiful photos. Regards,

Aunti

Absolutely cool post. Basically, I built a business around this. I rarely shoot a "formal" wedding, as most of my clients prefer a "personal" video. I am working on making available a demo of my wedding work. Very small percentage of my clients are willing to go "online", so, it's been slow and meticulous on what I can add to it.

[auntisocial]

Thanks for taking time to watch. Your comments are appreciated. I realize this was nothing fancy, but in this case I thought simple worked.

Of course, people on this site just turned me on to Digital Juice (and I'll also be looking into Smart Tracks ... I think that's what you called them), so now the REAL fun begins. I've just ordered some of their products.

I've hit my family up for all the video and pictures of trips, anniversaries, weddings, graduations and scrapbooks of old family photos they can find. I hope to use these new tools to create examples that can be put up on my website and go from there.

I'll be sure to let them know it's you're fault they are being harrassed. *chuckle*

Aunti

P.S. I will make my husband write down my pc specs (since he built it) so I can fill in my profile.

[MrA]

I've hit my family up for all the video and pictures of trips, anniversaries, weddings, graduations and scrapbooks of old family photos they can find.

P.S. I will make my husband write down my pc specs (since he built it) so I can fill in my profile.

I recently regretted doing the same thing.. I weighed it out, about 4 boxes and close to 700 lbs of pics, total. Probably 4 years continuous scanning, not to mention how many drives it will take.

[sjj1805]

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I've hit my family up for all the video and pictures of trips, anniversaries, weddings, graduations and scrapbooks of old family photos they can find. I hope to use these new tools to create examples that can be put up on my website and go from there......

First time round it took me well over 3 months of scanning to get all my photographs onto a hard drive. On the plus side it was a good excuse to visit a few long lost relatives to borrow some of their photographs to add to my collection.

Hard drives were quite small then and at the time I had this whopping big 750 Megabyte Hard drive and all my friends said "You will never fill that".
Anyway I had to reduce the file sizes using JPG compression and resizing the photographs to then then standard screen size 800 x 600.

End Result.... Last year I spent another couple of months scanning then all again but this time using a lot less compression - in fact initially I save them in the PhotoImpact UFO format (no loss of quality) so that I can touch them up where necessary. I only convert to JPG when satisfied with the final image. Even then I tend the keep copies in the UFO format because storage space (such as DVD discs) is now so cheap.

Having all these pictures on the hard drive is great, you can use copies of photographs in family tree programs, in your email address book, create online photo albums and even store them on SD cards and put them into Digital Photo Frames.

Good luck, have fun and don't make the mistake I made and skimp on quality because like me you will end up doing it all again at a later date.