LES Posted January 12, 2003 Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 The best option for me at this time is to use video DVD software to record true DVD slideshow movies. DVD media is getting cheaper as more DVD drive recorders and standalone DVD recorders are sold. I have already read where you can get DVD media farely cheap.I currently us a Video software that makes good still image slideshows, with menus. It has a storyboard, timeline and text views. The timeline has tracks for video clips or images, text (titles), background music, and sound-effect voiceover. Transitions are accepted directly on the video/images track. You can output to camera, tape, DVD, VCD or SVCD. In addition, you can save your movie to MPEG, AVI, RealVideo or WindowsMedia. And guess what? The DVD movies are pretty good. What it can't do is create an exe and that's where PTE excels. If PTE does not embrace DVD, I feel they will eventually cater only to those of us who will need a PC to see the best quality of images in a slideshow. The masses will want to view slideshows on TV and DVD is where the masses will be. Just look at the sales of DVD players to VCRs and PCs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okcjack Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 According to the downloaded Ulead user manual, the number of slides is only limited by the available space on the disk. That would translate into a long, long slide show that anyone would ever want to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okcjack Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 I have just download the Ulead v.2 trial version. The limitation per DVD is 99 slideSHOWS, NOT 99 slides. The number of slides per show is unlimited only by the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danabw Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 Thanks - I also downloaded it and found that they have indeed removed the 99 slides per show limit of their previous version. Since my shows are often in the 250 - 350 range, that's good news. I created a short (the demo only allows 10 slides) show and tried it on my DVD player. Image quality was excellent - sharp w/good color. Transitions (I only tried fades) were smooth. Music I selected to include did not play, so some unknown potential problem there. Haven't had time to try it again w/another song file. The interface is one of those slightly (or sometimes very) maddening "wizard" type of interfaces that is good for trying it out the first time, but potentially annoying as you progress. Definitely worth looking into for anyone wanting to make DVD slideshows. (And it can also make VCD and SVCD.) Oh-there is no sync to music feature, so you'd have to do the old count seconds of music, divide by slides and get appropriate slide timing. At least the timing, once set, would never change since it's a movie. So you could play it on any DVD and it would remain consistent, unlike a manually timed PTE show played on different computers. (Lucky we have the sync feature in PTE!) Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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