Import text associated with an image

[eatc7402]

I am trying to produce a SLIDE SHOW of about 500 photo images. Each image has an associated 'title'.

Is there any way to associate the title with the appropriate image and import them together??
The text would have to an associated 'title' frame.

I am not looking forward to cutting and pasting 500 titles if that needs to be done.

DaveF
eatc7402
here is my example of the images I am going to use with their associated titles included.
http://www.extraalarm.org/stations/Minn ... _Links.htm

[sjj1805]

Having pondered this the only solution I think which might work would involve using DVD Workshop where you would use the text as subtitles.
The Text would have to be placed into a text file in a certain format where the start,end times are included. It may also be a bit hit and miss sort of like the audio/video synch problems we hear about.

Even that method though would no doubt involve copy/paste and would probably involve more work than simply importing all the pictures then copy/paste the text later.

Steve J

[GeorgeBW]

Hi Dave, Steve,

It seems that whichever method that you have available is going to require you to type out a title for each slide... so why not do this directly over the image itself? If you have a photo editor such as Photo Impact or Photoshop... you can title each picture ...place the title anywhere on the canvas, flatten the image, then save. The title then becomes an integral part of the image.. You also have choice over font style size and colour... but of course cannot apply any animation or effect to the fixed text.. If you save the pictures filenamed numerically in the order you want to display them... Windows will arrange them in order and you can subsequently import the images in a batch to UVS9 Library or timeline, Finally add Intro title blocks credit blocks, transitions and sound over etc..
You should be able to get first class presentations that can be burned to DVD... But 500 slides....? Phew.. Won't you need to give it a really rousing soundtrack to keep your audience from nodding off..

Best wishes

George

[GeorgeBW]

Hello again Dave,

Here is another scheme which I have tried with some success.. But it is seriously ponderous for long slideshow movies..

Construct a slideshow in Powerpoint, making sure that the images, titles and effects are not overdone with size and sophistication... because it is important that the finished show plays fluently and without any hesitancy at all. You can actually apply a soundtrack at this stage, but I find it far better to do that in UVS9 ...get a better quality result and keeps the Powerpoint filesize down. Then play the show while running a screen recorder such as BlueBerry Flashback which actually "films" the slideshow in real time. The file it creates is a unique format *.FBR or *.FBZ.. but this can be rendered as an .AVI file using the BBFlashback recorder... For an hour long show, it could take a weekend to convert... It is very, very slow.. To the point of being impractical for anything over 10 minutes.. The AVI file can be then imported into UVS and tidied up ..sound added etc..

This isn't a method that I would recommend for long recordings, but it is fascinating to tinker with..

George

[sjj1805]

.... 500 slides....? Phew.. Won't you need to give it a really rousing soundtrack to keep your audience from nodding off..

There are a few things you can do here to "speed it up"
1. Split the 500 photo's up into smaller groups then have each group as a seperate file which in turn becomes a seperate title on the finished DVD.

2. Use multiscreen (picture in picture) effects. With Video Studio this needs a bit work where you may have to add PIPs bit at a time, render, add a bit more, render again.

It may be worth your while downloading the 30 day free trial of Media Studio Pro where you can have multiple video tracks and achieve the multiscreen effect in one go.

Steve J