Bruce, To me, there are two main reasons for using Wings Platinum 2.
1. Cost. It's freeware. 2. An editing environment I really like. At least compared to Proshow Gold and Adobe Premiere. The only fault with the freeware version is of course that I cannot create a presentation suitable for sharing on the Internet, as this little excercise has duly demonstrated. I will not do it again, I can tell you that. :-( I've removed the exe file from the website now. Wings can output MPEG streams and general-purpose DVDs if one buys additional modules, but not in the freeware version. Btw, I downloaded the Adobe Premiere tryout, but I couldn't make it produce any hi-res presentations. Maybe I missed the finer points with the software, but the only thing I could make it produce was standard video resolution, which looked awful. I think it was 320x180 pixels or something like that. Wings suits my main purpose very nicely; which is to run slide shows off a projector from my own laptop. Just as a ballpark figure... -what file size would you typically end up with for a 4 minutes MPEG presentation in 1024x768 pixels resolution with your package? Jostein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:12 PM Subject: Re: PESO - wood structures I am somewhat surprised that you didn't just use one of the video editing packages (Ulead, Adobe) to create a final mpg that can be played safely without taxing the heck out of your software. You have extremely fine control with the apps to create whatever you want. I do DVD slideshows all the time out of still pictures and transitions and music that are timed exactly frame by frame to the music as I desire. The final result is either a burned DVD or mpg that can be played on almost any kind of system. Care to eloborate why this particular software was chosen? -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, June 26, 2006, 12:45:03 PM, you wrote: TØ> I liked it a lot Jostein. The switch to verticals works very well. Music and TØ> pictures suits each other well. As somebody else said, it was worth the TØ> download. TØ> But it did hijack my system too. Esc did not work, but I was able to get the TØ> menu bar up, and close it from there. TØ> But what really bugs me is that I have planned to do something similar for a TØ> long time. Your show will make it a bit like jumping after Virkola (a very TØ> Norwegian reference, does not translate well). TØ> Tim TØ> Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) TØ> Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds TØ> (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of >> Jostein >> Sent: 24. juni 2006 15:14 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: PESO - wood structures >> >> >> I figured I won't be doing this very often, so I stuck with a >> familiar >> acronym. >> >> What I have committed is actually a 3.5 minutes slide show, over >> the >> theme of structures in old woodwork. It's my first attempt at >> assembling something like this, so if someone has the time to >> download, look and comment, I'd be most grateful. >> >> I've tried to maintain a reasonable trade-off between image/sound >> quality and file size, but it's still a huge file; 23 MB! So don't >> try >> it on a dial-up. >> >> URL: http://www.oksne.net/temp/Trestrukturer2-compressed.exe >> >> It will only run on Microsoft platforms, with DirectX v9.0 or >> newer, >> and requires a graphic card with 3D rendering functionality. >> EXE-files >> is the only output option I have from the slide show software, >> which >> is the freeware version of Wings Platinum 2 from www.avstumpfl.com. >> >> Hope this doesn't scare everyone away. >> >> I'm only going to leave this up until Monday night, because there >> are >> copyright issues with the music. If someone is interested in the >> details about the music, I'm happy to fill you in off-list. Just >> give >> me a hint. >> >> thanks, >> Jostein >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
