Simple good looking slideshow
October 29, 2008 4:56 PM Subscribe
Need software to make a good looking slideshow with effort and time approaching zero.
I need to slap together about 200 photographs into a slideshow presentation. This is a dumb job I'm stuck doing. It has to look professional but I don't want to spend more than say 60 minutes doing it.
I need:
- Simple but nice transitions, hopefully pan-and-zoom.
- To be able to see the names of the files while I'm editing this so I can insert white-on-black text slides at the appropriate places.
- To have a logo visible at all times in a corner.
- To output to a video file or something dead simple for the client to run in a loop
I'm on Vista. Thanks in advance for taking some of the annoying out of a dumb task.
I need to slap together about 200 photographs into a slideshow presentation. This is a dumb job I'm stuck doing. It has to look professional but I don't want to spend more than say 60 minutes doing it.
I need:
- Simple but nice transitions, hopefully pan-and-zoom.
- To be able to see the names of the files while I'm editing this so I can insert white-on-black text slides at the appropriate places.
- To have a logo visible at all times in a corner.
- To output to a video file or something dead simple for the client to run in a loop
I'm on Vista. Thanks in advance for taking some of the annoying out of a dumb task.
Response by poster: PowerPoint doesn't show me the names of the files, I think.
posted by signal at 5:17 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by signal at 5:17 PM on October 29, 2008
www.animoto.com is great for flashy slideshows, but it won't address items 2 and 3.
ACDSee would cover 1, 2 and 4, but not the logo... perhaps ACDSee if you can find a macro to batch insert the logo in the corner via photoshop?
posted by perpetualstroll at 5:49 PM on October 29, 2008
ACDSee would cover 1, 2 and 4, but not the logo... perhaps ACDSee if you can find a macro to batch insert the logo in the corner via photoshop?
posted by perpetualstroll at 5:49 PM on October 29, 2008
Best answer: Google Picassa will do slideshows with transitions and export to avi movie or other options.
posted by acro at 6:01 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by acro at 6:01 PM on October 29, 2008
Microsoft Photo Story 3
Free, quick, easy. You can slap all of the photos in, make a title and add music. You can also change the panning and transitions but you don't have to.
Easier than Powerpoint by a longshot, at least in my experience.
posted by sisflit at 6:53 PM on October 29, 2008
Free, quick, easy. You can slap all of the photos in, make a title and add music. You can also change the panning and transitions but you don't have to.
Easier than Powerpoint by a longshot, at least in my experience.
posted by sisflit at 6:53 PM on October 29, 2008
Looks like you need to run Photo Story in compatibility mode, since it was developed for XP.
posted by lukemeister at 8:44 PM on October 29, 2008
posted by lukemeister at 8:44 PM on October 29, 2008
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posted by maxg94 at 5:00 PM on October 29, 2008