Create Movie from folder of JPEGS.

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Rodney Scott

Is there a way to create a project with random transistions from a folder of
JPEGS. I take about 500 pics a month and want to create a VCD or DVD of
these pictures with sound and such. What I have to do now is add the
pictures to the project, then add transistions between each picture
manually. What I want to do is to script with vbscript or jscript the
creation of the project that automatically puts a random transistion between
the pics so I can just point to a folder and say create movie. I know this
can be done with other products like Vegas, but that's rather expensive and
there's a rather large learning curve for me.
 
Yes, being able to script WMM2 would be absolutely WONDERFUL! (Please Microsoft...give us *SOMETHING*...even documenting the MSWMM format would be a start). As one possible alternative, you might try the free Producer add-in to PowerPoint (although I can't get it to work from C# :-( )

Since it sounds like all you're concerned about is images (no video), you might find that something other than WMM2 will work better for you (especially given VCD/DVD as the finished product). One Microsoft product that you might look at is PhotoStory, part of the Plus! package (around $20, it only creates VCDs). Other third-party packages I've used to do similar things are MyDVD (Sonic) and Easy CD Creator 7 (Roxio); both import WMV/WMA, create both VCD and DVDs, can insert random transitions between photos, and have a "fit slideshow to music" option

There are several other third-party packages out there; some of them do more "Auto Movie" like things - making it easy to create a "music video" from a collection of photos. They analyze the photos and then put them together in a style you select. I tend to want most of my photos to be sequential (don't want Tuesday's vacation pictures before Monday's), so such products don't work very well for me

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Is there a way to create a project with random transistions from a folder o
JPEGS. I take about 500 pics a month and want to create a VCD or DVD o
these pictures with sound and such. What I have to do now is add th
pictures to the project, then add transistions between each pictur
manually. What I want to do is to script with vbscript or jscript th
creation of the project that automatically puts a random transistion betwee
the pics so I can just point to a folder and say create movie. I know thi
can be done with other products like Vegas, but that's rather expensive an
there's a rather large learning curve for me
 
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