Hi all, I did a search for this but most likely didn't put in the right combo of words.
I can't believe I never had the need to find this option before, but I'm having trouble locating it now.
Where can I set slideshow duration to manually change when the user hits the remote?
thanks,
dcp
Slideshow setting for manual image changing
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DiscCoasterPro
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I don't KNOW for sure, below is my opinion and I'd be V-E-R-Y happy to be wrong and learn something positive today.
I don't think you can do that with Ulead programs.
I'm not sure you can do that at all.
The most evident way is to make one chapter per picture and define the display time at 99 seconds. The viewer will probably tire before that and skip to next chapter.
One caveat is I think the software is not really making slide shows DVDs but video movies made by repeating the picture 25/30x per second.
So with 99 secs per picture you will end with a l-o-o-o-n-g movie and a large VOB file.
I do my slide shows with Sonic's soft only because they do make real slide shows.
I don't think you can do that with Ulead programs.
I'm not sure you can do that at all.
The most evident way is to make one chapter per picture and define the display time at 99 seconds. The viewer will probably tire before that and skip to next chapter.
One caveat is I think the software is not really making slide shows DVDs but video movies made by repeating the picture 25/30x per second.
So with 99 secs per picture you will end with a l-o-o-o-n-g movie and a large VOB file.
I do my slide shows with Sonic's soft only because they do make real slide shows.
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DiscCoasterPro
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Hi daniel, thanks for the reply. I think you are correct. I've relented to making each duration long enough for the viewer to react and hit the pause button if any interest is shown in a given still.
Its been kind of a pain as well to link multiple audio tracks to one file in another program before I can use all the music in a single slideshow.
As of late, for some ungodly reason, an even more annoying problem has popped up from nowhere that I have discussed in another thread. That being jittery playback from compilations of dv/avi clips through premiere.
The source of the clips being my Panasonic GS200. Certainly no mystery AVI source. I had to encode to mpeg in premiere to work around this last time and wrote off the experience as a fluke. Not so it seems, since now, another project shows the same symptons when encoded through DWS.
As much as I like DWS, I think I may start looking.
Its been kind of a pain as well to link multiple audio tracks to one file in another program before I can use all the music in a single slideshow.
As of late, for some ungodly reason, an even more annoying problem has popped up from nowhere that I have discussed in another thread. That being jittery playback from compilations of dv/avi clips through premiere.
The source of the clips being my Panasonic GS200. Certainly no mystery AVI source. I had to encode to mpeg in premiere to work around this last time and wrote off the experience as a fluke. Not so it seems, since now, another project shows the same symptons when encoded through DWS.
As much as I like DWS, I think I may start looking.
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StBruno
Very interesting thread ..
Like DiscCoasterPro, I like to create a "music slideshow". The slides (pics) are coincidental - I just want to sit back and listen to the music ... for example, I will rip all the tracks (to MP3) from a favourite audio cd in my collection (using MusicMatch), and use MpegVideoWizard (MVW) to combine the tracks together into a single MP3. In WS2 I then create a s/show using the minimum number of slides (4m 14s = 254s per slide) ... for example, if the audio track is exactly 1hr long, then I need a minimum of 15 slides. And of course I need to check "sync slide duration to audio". WS2 seems to make a good job of converting the MP3 to Dolby stereo. And I find that the resulting VOB size is determined mostly by the audio track - the long slide duration has very little impact.
Of course, what I would LIKE to do (but it doesn't seem possible in WS2), is to be able to vary the duration of individual slides within a s/show, to match the duration of the separate "tunes"/cd-tracks within the combined audio track ..
I've tried (and it's very tedious!) creating individual s/shows for each cd-track, then attempting to "combine" the s/shows in MVW. But this doesn't work .. MVW can't "cope" with these s/shows - I suspect the a/v timing info involved is not part of the VOB, but is in one of the DVD .ifo files.
I was hoping that WS3 (???) would incorporate this facility ... fond hope!
StBruno
I'm not sure this is quite true.daniel wrote:One caveat is I think the software is not really making slide shows DVDs but video movies made by repeating the picture 25/30x per second. So with 99 secs per picture you will end with a l-o-o-o-n-g movie and a large VOB file.
Like DiscCoasterPro, I like to create a "music slideshow". The slides (pics) are coincidental - I just want to sit back and listen to the music ... for example, I will rip all the tracks (to MP3) from a favourite audio cd in my collection (using MusicMatch), and use MpegVideoWizard (MVW) to combine the tracks together into a single MP3. In WS2 I then create a s/show using the minimum number of slides (4m 14s = 254s per slide) ... for example, if the audio track is exactly 1hr long, then I need a minimum of 15 slides. And of course I need to check "sync slide duration to audio". WS2 seems to make a good job of converting the MP3 to Dolby stereo. And I find that the resulting VOB size is determined mostly by the audio track - the long slide duration has very little impact.
Of course, what I would LIKE to do (but it doesn't seem possible in WS2), is to be able to vary the duration of individual slides within a s/show, to match the duration of the separate "tunes"/cd-tracks within the combined audio track ..
I've tried (and it's very tedious!) creating individual s/shows for each cd-track, then attempting to "combine" the s/shows in MVW. But this doesn't work .. MVW can't "cope" with these s/shows - I suspect the a/v timing info involved is not part of the VOB, but is in one of the DVD .ifo files.
I was hoping that WS3 (???) would incorporate this facility ... fond hope!
StBruno