Hi all,
I have a series of photos that I want to combine in a slideshow, with a music track if possible. The resulting file should be in avi, wmv, or mpeg format. I can do this with OpenOffice Show, but it is pretty lame. I saw an MS product, PhotoShow. It allows you to put a series of still photos in a timeline and effect different transitions and add a soundtrack. For example you can start with a photo and move into a particular part of the photo, say a face in a group.

I do have CrossOver Office and I'm trying my best to not purchase Flash. BTW, CoffeeCup's Flash creator doesn't work under CXOffice.

Any thoughts?

TIA,

JIM A. USA

i have been looking for something similar to this also, the best I could find was racoonshow.

I hear racoon show will work, but it has some dependency problems for me in regards to lame.
Cinerella looks very feature=packed, but everything I've read indicates that the learning curve is steep.

i think i may have found what we are looking for.

Its called dvd-slideshow. It creates an mpeg2 video for you which you can then use dvd author to create a dvd from.

It works well. I have just created a short 10 second slide show video with some background music. You can chosoe various formats to output it too.

you put the audio files and images in one directory and then create a text file which defines how long each image lasts background colours, subtitles, image transitions, sound transitions etc. Then you run dvd-slideshow passing it the text file and it encodes the audio file in to wav and encodes the images into video and etc etc then if it works correctly you have created a nie little slide show video.

Learning the way the text file should be setup is going to be a little time consuming, luckaly someone has created a gui tool that will let you create the text file defining the image transitions etc. Then you cna just run the text file through dvd-slideshow and its done. The gui tool is easier in the short term.

dvd-slideshow can be found here
http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net

the gui tool for it can be found here
http://slcreator.sourceforge.net/

hopefully this will help you out, tis just what im looking for. Im not sure about dependencies you may need lame, but the others are gambas files fopr the gui tool, imagemagik for the transitions and some mpeg libraries.

Michael.

Michael,
Thanks I'll give it a look. The gui tool makes this a little more likeable I'm sure.
Jim A.