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To all of my VJ's out there, I'm looking for some software that will allow me to make a slideshow of pictures for a gig that I have coming up. I plan on using my MacBook for the audio and then was going to use my personal laptop to broadcast a slideshow of the birthday girl to my plasmas. I saw this done at a party I was at last weekend and it looked amazing and very professional. My everyday laptop is a dell with windows vista. Any suggestions?
 
Posted Sun 25 Oct 09 @ 8:08 am
There are several good programs out there that will make professional looking slideshows. I've used, Nero, ProShow Gold, and Roxio Creator. Of these three programs I prefer Roxio Creator, it has a ton of features (including making slideshows.) My version is a couple of years old, I'm sure the updated software is probably even better.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/creator/suite/overview.html

A quick comment about Prohow Gold (Photodex Corporation) I purchased this program for about $80 dollars and shortly afterwards the company updated the software. They sent me a promotional E-mail offering me the newer version with a whopping $10.00 dollars off coupon for the update. (They wanted $70.00 more dollars for the update)

I basically told them to KISS OFF, and NO THANKS. Although it's good software I can't recommend it for this reason. (Compare that with ATOMIX who's been giving all registered users FREE UPDATES for years)

There IS no comparison.

R~
 
why not use the vdj slideshow plug-in along with the random effect video transition? combine that with the text2d or sbdj scrolltext, and you have a slideshow thats customizable on the fly. as long as the picture files arent memory hogs (would make an older system a little balky)all you would have to do is have it running with the delay set to your preference.
 
Country, there's nothing wrong with the VDJ plug-in and the price is certainly right but it doesn't offer the flexibility or professional results as would a stand alone program. With these programs you can create video files using a multitude of formats, everything from high quality Mpeg2 to Mpeg4 and everything else in-between. You could also give the slideshow to the person(s) it was created for or post it on a website etc.

I played around with the VDJ plug-in and had some trouble with it stretching photos out of proportion and it was somewhat time consuming trying to get the photos the correct size for proper display. Again it's a nice plug-in to have but depending on how professional you want to go it doesn't have all the bells and whistles one might want.

I put this example together in about 5 minutes for a demo of the effects available. (Grabbed a bunch of my animal friend photos just to have something to display) You can also add text to the photos with a lot of nice special effects which I didn't do here but the option is available.

http://home.comcast.net/~thirdrock/Test.mp4 (33 meg file)
 
Dj Renee, Thanks for the help. I'm probably going to go with the Roxio software. Thanks again for the help!
 
djrenee wrote :
I played around with the VDJ plug-in and had some trouble with it stretching photos out of proportion and it was somewhat time consuming trying to get the photos the correct size for proper display.


There's a fix for that :)
 
Scott if you can direct me to the "fix" I would appreciate it, I do like having the plug-in as well but it was stretching my head and boobs which are BIG ENOUGH as it is....

Thanks :^)
 
 
Thanks Scott, look forward to seeing the update, I know you have had a LOT on your plate in the past year and I hope next year is a GREAT one for for you. :^)
 
Thanks Renee, I hope so too - although recent events don't point to that being the case :(
 


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