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Subject: [OM] Re: Slideshow software
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:29:13 -0400
Looking at the version feature list comparison I don't see anything that 
looks like playback of still photos on DVD video.  Only video formats 
and it's not clear if a computer is required for the play back.
<http://www.nero.com/enu/store-upgrade-center.html>

Chuck Norcutt


Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> Aside of the price issue, would Nero 8 be able to do so ?.
> Found: Nero StartSmart > Create and Edit > Make Photo Slide Show > Nero 
> Vision 5 > Make Slide Shoe, with too much options.
> 
> Being myself quite a newbie in the PC world, and particularly in Nero, I 
> should ask. Perhaps I've discovered something new  _ ;)
> 
> Fernando.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> I recently visited with some folks who had been at a family gathering 
>> where I had taken lots of photos.  I assumed that they probably had a PC 
>> of some sort so took along a data DVD containing two folders of JPEG 
>> images from the gathering.  One contained small images suitable for the 
>> web, the other contained the original, full-size 13 MP images from the 5D.
>>
>> When I mentioned that I had a DVD with photos my host said, "Oh, good, 
>> let's play the DVD on the TV."  I said it wasn't a DVD video, just still 
>> images and the TV and DVD player wouldn't know what to do with it.  But 
>> the host insisted that we try it.  Much to my surprise, the TV/DVD combo 
>> (a Hi-Def, 8 foot projection screen monster) began immediately to 
>> display a slide show.  To everyone's dissatisfaction, the images looked 
>> kind of fuzzy and I finally realized that it had chosen the small size 
>> web images and was up-rezzing them to fit the HD screen.  I then asked 
>> if it was possible to navigate around the disk to look for another 
>> folder.  Sure enough it was quite possible and I discovered that the TV 
>> was also capable of down-rezzing the 13 MP images to fit the HD screen.
>>
>> I'm not sure what was providing all the logic for that but it was 
>> certainly not just a dumb TV.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Moose wrote:
>>   
>>> Wayne Harridge wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I need to produce a "slideshow" of several hundred images (shot on my 
>>>> E-510, so it's on-topic !) and need some advice about how best to do it.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to have the option of randomising the slides then retaining the 
>>>> random order.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to produce the slideshow on DVD so that a PC is not required to 
>>>> play it.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions ?
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> I suspect there are several solutions. I believe that Picassa will do 
>>> the job described. I know it will do a random slide show and it will 
>>> make a DVD movie from slides. Whether the two meet, I don't know.
>>>
>>> Hard to miss for the price - free.
>>>
>>> Moose
>>>     
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