pictures,music,and SVCD

[Brainchild]

How can I create a slideshow that has different music for each set of pictures,and will play in a DVD player?

Like I have a bunch of pics of my dads family,and would like to play music with that part of the presentation,then when it goes into moms family I want the music to change,ect.

What will I need to pull this off?

[sixf00t4]

correct me if i am wrong someone....but i think you can export a powerpoint project into a slide show...i am unsure whether or not you can play that in a dvdplayer or not....

may not be the most simplest way, but you could create a "movie" with say windows movie maker or a program like it, and manually add all the frames.

[Brainchild]

It was another of my hairbrainchild schemes.

My luck I'll have to pay through the nose for a video proggie or something

[VHockey86]

Well you could setup multiple movies, and have each movie be a "chapter" on the DVD player. Windows Movie Maker would prolly work for something as simple as a slideshow kind of movie. I'm sure theres got to be some sort of free movie editing software out there for linux, but I have no idea for sure (they have the gimp for photoshop... so maybe theres a Premiere equivilent).

[jmebonner]

http://www.photodex.com/products/proshow/
It's a free trial, only $30 to buy. Output to VCD/SVCD/XSVCD/DVD/MPEG/MPEG2/EXE


http://www.ulead.com/dps/trial.htm
free tial here too, limited to 10 stills for the trial tho, $45 to buy.

www.vcdeasy.org also has this capability. It used to be free and I donated, but now I see it's around $20. I'm not sure how easy it is to add music on this one.

I've never done the music part, so good luck!

[sixf00t4]

It was another of my hairbrainchild schemes.

My luck I'll have to pay through the nose for a video proggie or something

no, this is definitely do-able. it will just take some work.

[phenious]

Nero can do the slides... never tried music... Ill see if I can find my HP software disk that does EXACTLY what you want and burns to VCD/SVCD if u are still looking... It may have been lost in the move to the US though Will check when I get home.

-: phenious :-

[Scott Tiger]

Not to totally ruin your post here but I've found that most stand-alone DVD players don't play SVCD's so if you're looking for a way to widely distribute these disks that might present a real problem.

[phenious]

ive had mixed results with SVCDs... if its under a year ive had good luck but thats no promise. Ive had the best luck with vcds. But the best is actually burning a DVD. But I wanna get u what you want. VCDs can be played on any computer though so thats a good thing

-: phenious :-

[Ruler2112]

You can use VCDEasy to generate MPEG stills from your pictures, then set each as a chapter. You can set the delay for each one before it goes on to the next. I'm not certain about adding music, but it shouldn't be too difficult. (Just find a way to play an MP2 audio stream while the chapters progress.)

Very cool idea. If I ever find somebody with a slide scanner (stupid instructor wanted us to use slide film), I think I'll try something similar.