However, I don't think DVD slideshow GUI can automate everything, up to
recognizing double entries.
I'm always looking for simple solutions to simple problems, as I'm set to
manually pilot the selection, resizing and (in case) cropping of my pictures
to include in that presentation.
Dario
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From: Dario Bonazza
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 3:26 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: slideshow
Hi Larry, I'm not following PDML closely these days, being short of time,
hence I didn't follow past discussions on this topic.
However, Im trying 'DVD slideshow GUI' right now for the first time, hence
zero experience with it. At first glance, it does not seem bad and I've been
able to put together a 50-slide show from scratch.
It's here:
http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/download.html
Dario
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From: Larry Colen
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:55 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: slideshow
While I got many recommendations, both here and when I asked on facebook,
nobody actually mentioned any program that seemed to meet all of my
requirements. I do appreciate the quick scripts that someone wrote, but I
know how easy it is for me to fall into tweaking scripts, even if they are
theoretically all ready to just load and run. Between that, and my being
very busy getting ready for the party without anyone to help, I just gave up
and used iPhoto.
I pointed iPhoto at the pictures I was interested in, it loaded those, and
it seemed a whole bunch more. I don't think it actually duplicated them, I
tried to make sure that I told it not to make copies. It then turned out
very difficult to point iPhoto at multiple directories to get what I wanted,
but I stumbled across some way of making a new collection. Unfortunately,
since I had multiple copies of the same photos in several sets of jpegs,
there didn't seem to be a way I could find to get iPhoto to recognize that
two different files in different directories were actually the same photo,
and not import it twice.
Once I had the new collection set up and most of the duplicates manually
deleted, I pressed play, and then had to wait for iPhoto to go through and
actually import all 41,000 jpegs. I don't know why there were that many,
but iPhoto found them, and imported them. An hour or so later, it was ready
to run. I pointed it at my new collection, set the slideshow on random and
let it go. after a while I started noticing a lot of repetition. I
eventually gave up, and had it just go through photos sequentially.
iPhoto seems to be the lowest effort way to run a slideshow in some loose
approximation of what I want, but I am now confirmed in my opinion that
iPhoto sucks. Maybe, someday, I'll put in the effort to find something that
sucks less.
I don't tend to spend a lot of time looking at my own photos, particularly
not ones that aren't in whatever book I'm currently using to show off my
work. As such the vast majority of photos in the slideshow were ones that I
hadn't looked at for a while. As such it was interesting to look at a bunch
of my work with a relatively fresh eye and was pleasantly surprising to see
quite a few that I actually liked.
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