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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 05:36 AM
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What are your requirements? How sophisticated a slide show are you making? Do you need features such as effects, synchronized sound and slide changes, variable time changes, or standalone presentations?
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 05:42 AM
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ProShow Gold
You can buy the basic version for ~$70.
I think there is also a free version
Good Luck
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 08:13 AM
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How about the free Microsoft Movie Maker? It is a rather easy tool, but depending on your needs it may be good enough.
It did the job for me when making a slide show for my parents golden anniversary.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 09:05 AM
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I would second the Pro-show software as it has a lot of features and is dedicated to the task while allowing you to publish to places like YouTube, DVD, etc.
Alternatively, besides the options above, PowerPoint can do well if you already have Microsoft Office (not sure how many people do anymore, but it is standard for my office job) and I would assume that any other Office Alternative could do it through its presentation software.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 11:24 AM
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how about PICASA from google; it's free, also allows for quick picture manipulations.
still available here: download picasa free
This can create "movies" at various screen resolutions and controls for transition and duration of slide to be shown.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 04:04 PM
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Hi Maria,
I use a basic Slideshow generator called DVD slideshow GUI, it simple, basic and FREE.
It has transitions, and I've used up 100 images in the slideshow.
Typically I will add the images in that fashion, then output them as a mpeg video, take the video and add in with other videos as I build a DVD
DVD slideshow GUI 0.9.5.4 Free Download - VideoHelp
I've found it a good starter, and haven't bothered to progess to anything else.
hope it helps
Greg
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 04:08 PM
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This is what I was going to suggest. Lots of utilities as well.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-22-2019, 06:20 PM
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Hi Maria,
I'm also a ProShow user and very happy with the offering. It's got a lot of stuff and fairly intuitive to operate. The folks at Photodex have been great to offer support (when needed). I would caution, ProShow is somewhat insidious; as you use it, the siren song becomes the expansion modules and movement from Gold to Producer which can make the product a fairly expensive investment in a piece of software (but I wouldn't be without it). For display of images, several of my colleagues (we teach) use Microsoft PowerPoint (as have I) and I believe it's included in most "Office" packages free of extra charge. Compared to ProShow, PowerPoint is a little less intuitive but there's a lot of feaures there if you have the time to explore and play and in many ways very comparable to ProShow for a relatively simple display of images.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
04-23-2019, 04:09 AM
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Have you checked what is available already installed with Windows?
Sadly MS dropped support for Windows Media Centre some time ago although you can still find it and download.
Have you looked at Microsoft Photos? This is a very simple application that will create a video slideshow from images that you drag and drop.
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