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Subject: [OM] Re: Slideshow software
From: "Wayne Harridge" <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:20:30 +1000
Thanks all for the input on this, I downloaded Picasa and I already had Nero
(came with a DVD drive purchase).  Nero seemed a bit more intuitive to me so
I probably use that unless I find some problem with it.  I built a slideshow
with about 60 images as a trial and it seems to do the job.

...Wayne



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> [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Hermanson
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> Subject: [OM] Re: Slideshow software
> 
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> 
> These will play back on home dvd players.
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> 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 ?
> >>>>   
> >>>>       
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