(solved) Slide Show In Windows Media

TheRealGV · 24-Dec-2003, 03:54 PM #1

I have about 200 pictures of family that I want to be able to have viewable in Windows Media as a slide show.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a free program that's out there that can do this? Even one that has a free trial that offeres full features? I do plan on maybe paying for it, but I ned to try it first. I've tried a couple, but free trial doesn't offer the features needed. I want to be able to have a 3 to 5 second delay between pictures.

Thanks in advance.

Rhettman5.1 · 24-Dec-2003, 04:28 PM #2

Try THIS called fresh view, It's good fast free and spyware free, it will show thumbs, give you a slideshow full screen and let you determine the length...easy to learn also...check it out...you will have to register it, but it IS free ...Rhett

( one you download it you may want to go to tools/settings/file associations and remove all the ticks so it will let your favorite programs remain the defaults)

TheRealGV · 24-Dec-2003, 05:30 PM #3

Thanks, but that won't play a slide show in Windows Media Player.

buck52 · 24-Dec-2003, 07:07 PM #4

How are you going to store them for viewing? CD

Ifranview will allow you to create a slideshow and burn it to a CD with the viewer so you can give it anyone

buck

TheRealGV · 24-Dec-2003, 07:40 PM #5

The first line of my original post said, "I have about 200 pictures of family that I want to be able to have viewable in Windows Media as a slide show".

This means that I want to use Windows Media Player to view the slide show as a movie.

buck52 · 24-Dec-2003, 09:22 PM #6

Quote:

Originally posted by TheRealGV:
The first line of my original post said, "I have about 200 pictures of family that I want to be able to have viewable in Windows Media as a slide show".

This means that I want to use Windows Media Player to view the slide show as a movie.

Thanks for clearing that up

Was just making a alternative suggestion that is very quick and easy for slideshows...and it's free

buck

MustBNuts · 24-Dec-2003, 10:54 PM #7

Movie Maker on Windows XP will create a .wmv file. My sister just created a movie/slideshow that included about 100 pictures set to the music of her choice...

PS: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays - just remember, yes we can read and everyone here is merely giving you options, opinions, and trying to help, try to check the attitude at the door

TheRealGV · 25-Dec-2003, 01:09 AM #8

Sorry for the attitude. I was pretty frustrated trying to find what I needed.

I did manage to find what I was looking for and it worked better then I was hoping.

Rhettman5.1 · 25-Dec-2003, 01:19 AM #9

Great for you, and we are glad, ..but... how about sharing what you found with the other members... then Mr. Buck (

) can mark this resolved !!...PS... MERRY CHRISTMAS !!... Rhett

TheRealGV · 25-Dec-2003, 01:53 AM **#10**

I first got the pictures set all in one folder. I needed to resize them all to fit a screen resolution of 800X600. I was going to use InfranView, but didn't like that idea as only one can be resized at a time. I managed to find a program called Slide Show found at http://www.digitalphotoslideshow.com/ . It came with a Digital Photo Resizer.

After resizing to fit screen resolution, I used a program called ProShow ( http://www.photodex.com/products/proshow/ ) to take the 200 pictures and turn them into a slide show movie. This program has a feature that allow you to add an MP3 to have sound with the show. If you're using the Trial Version, it will leave a mark across the show saying evaluation version. I paid for it and don't get that marking. This left me with a pretty big .mpg file.

I used Windows Media Encoder ( http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-...ml?tag=lst-2-4 ) to shrink the file down to a sixth of the original (90MB down to 15MB). Most, if not all the quality remained.

I only wanted to create a slide show to show people. The added music was a great bonus. As I said, it was better then I wanted.

Thanks again for the assistamce. Sorry for the frustration. I really wanted to get this done before bed tonight, and didn't think I would be able to.

buck52 · 03:19 AM

TheRealGV

glad you got it worked out...and thanks for sharing how...

I will mark this as solved...howdy Rhett

Quote:

I was going to use InfranView, but didn't like that idea as only one can be resized at a time.

For your info... Irfanview slideshows display fullscreen automatically and/or will batch resize quite nicely...

buck

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