I put together one presentation with my PAW 2005 gallery images.
If you want to give it a try and give me some feedback, take a
look at
http://www.gdgphoto.com/PAW2005/
It does use Flash, but hopefully you'll find it tasteful.
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From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Doesn't work for me. Sound sputters, screen shows a couple-three
pics than
remains black. Oh well ... maybe it's not dial-up friendly.
Yes, it requires broadband bandwidth. I haven't found anything that
does a decent job of presenting AV with a dialup connection, at least
not without hanging around for a very long time waiting for the data
to download. This is a "small" photo presentation and constitutes
about 7Mbytes of compressed images and sound. It's not a replacement
for a still image web gallery.
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From: Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's beautiful, Godfrey - it really adds a dimention - at least!
I often wnted to thry this myself.
But tell me, how do you handle the Copyright/Coda issue ? Is it you
playing
and singing?
Thanks Jens.
LOL ... That's certainly not *ME* singing and playing.
This test isn't going to up for long. I'm unsure of the details as
yet, but for anything that I'm going to put up as part of my work
I'll have to make the judgement as to whether it constitutes Fair Use
or otherwise requires a contract for permissions.
I've skimmed this and found it reasonably useful as a starting point:
http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/copyright/index.html
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From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Godders - love the idea but the mixes (dissolves) between shots are
far
too fast! ...
You may also find that when putting images (still or otherwise) to
music, there is no formula. ...
I once edited a series of 4 minute news items on a UK picture agency
(Popperfoto) that included many stills images and editing them to
music
was one of the hardest, yet one of the most rewarding things I've
ever done.
I agree completely and thank you for the comments! This particular
presentation was simply a test-demo to see how the generator worked:
I grabbed my entire PAW 2005 image gallery, added leader and trailer
image pages, and integrated it with "Colorblind" with no other
editing ... mostly I was looking to see how it played for others. The
software (SoundSlides) allows varying the timing for each frame to
coordinate with the music or with a custom audio track, which is
really what I plan to do with this idea.
My brother's in music production so we might collaborate on these
things at some point.
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From: Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Seems to work quite well however the track (naturally) has a fairly
obvious
left channel bias (piano) which was a little off-putting initially,
I don't
know if altering the channel balance would be viable but for anyone
who's not
familiar with the track it's a bit strange. Also the musical
attribution should
read "Counting Crows".
Thanks for the correction. I'll likely not bother to correct it as I
don't think I'll have this one up there for more than today. It's
served the purpose of my test. :-)
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From: Don Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Godfrey, it's wonderful!
I agree with Cotty though, just as I begin to "get into" one
of the photos, it quickly disolves to the next.
I feel myself rushing to see the pic before it's gone, which
doesn't quite fit with the lovely Counting Crows tune.
Keep at it, it's a great start.
Thanks Don!
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Thank you all once againfor your comments.
best,
Godfrey
