Scanners to DVDs

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Mike Fox

As those who follow this group know, I'm trying to turn 1000s of 35 mm
slides into a DVD slide with sound show on TV for my kids of their
childhoods (they're in there 30s). After hundreds of hours of scanning
and editing image files and gettings my kid's comments on the slides
into digital sound files, I still have to turn all this into a slide
show with commentary that will show on a DVD/CD on a TV.

I've got Nero 7 which is supposed to be real good. I've looked for
Nero in the discussion groups for how to do this, and to my amazement,
came up with nothing. Can anyone direct me to where I can get info on
how to used Nero to get where I'm going?

Thanks

Mike
 
Mike said:
As those who follow this group know, I'm trying to turn 1000s of 35 mm
slides into a DVD slide with sound show on TV for my kids of their
childhoods (they're in there 30s). After hundreds of hours of scanning
and editing image files and gettings my kid's comments on the slides
into digital sound files, I still have to turn all this into a slide
show with commentary that will show on a DVD/CD on a TV.

I've got Nero 7 which is supposed to be real good. I've looked for
Nero in the discussion groups for how to do this, and to my amazement,
came up with nothing. Can anyone direct me to where I can get info on
how to used Nero to get where I'm going?

Thanks

Mike
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Hi Mike...

Doing the same thing, but my kids seem to be a bit older :)

Before you get too deeply into Nero, make sure you take a look
at ProShow Gold. Best I've seen.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with proshow, other than being
a user.

Take care.

Ken
 
I know zilch about composing a multi-media slide show presentation. I run a
digital print centre. What I do know is all my Wedding Photographer clients
and the lady who makes my slide shows for me, all use Pro Show Gold. There
must be a reason for this. Nero is only a CD/DVD recording program. The fact
it does a few other things is only to add features at the point of sale.
 
D-Mac said:
I know zilch about composing a multi-media slide show presentation. I run a
digital print centre. What I do know is all my Wedding Photographer clients
and the lady who makes my slide shows for me, all use Pro Show Gold. There
must be a reason for this. Nero is only a CD/DVD recording program. The fact
it does a few other things is only to add features at the point of sale.
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Hi D-Mac

I should have included a link to the free trial download for the
OP, so here it is :)

http://www.photodex.com/downloads/trials.html

Take care.

Ken
 
Mike said:
As those who follow this group know, I'm trying to turn 1000s of 35 mm
slides into a DVD slide with sound show on TV for my kids of their
childhoods (they're in there 30s). After hundreds of hours of scanning
and editing image files and gettings my kid's comments on the slides
into digital sound files, I still have to turn all this into a slide
show with commentary that will show on a DVD/CD on a TV.

I've got Nero 7 which is supposed to be real good. I've looked for
Nero in the discussion groups for how to do this, and to my amazement,
came up with nothing. Can anyone direct me to where I can get info on
how to used Nero to get where I'm going?

Thanks

Mike
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Nerovision

make slide show (an option at the very first)


should be somewhat wizard"y" after that. (what pictures, what music etc)

Never done one, but do have Nero 7

and you haven't heard ME saying how good it is. <wink>
 
Given the amount of time you put into scanning and the time the
commentary will take, don't shortchange yourself on the slideshow
program. ProShow has got lots of mentions, also look in the forums at
dpreview.com for reviews and comments of other programs. One important
thing to know, with slideshows you can have an option to have
transitions between slides (fades, wipes, dissolves, etc.) However if
you use these, the resolution of your images will be degraded to VCD
quality, while if you just to straight cuts from slide to slide you
will retain the DVD quality. Do some test burns to check it out,
whichever program you end up with.
 
Mike Fox said:
As those who follow this group know, I'm trying to turn 1000s of 35 mm
slides into a DVD slide with sound show on TV for my kids of their
childhoods (they're in there 30s). After hundreds of hours of scanning
and editing image files and gettings my kid's comments on the slides
into digital sound files, I still have to turn all this into a slide
show with commentary that will show on a DVD/CD on a TV.

I've got Nero 7 which is supposed to be real good. I've looked for
Nero in the discussion groups for how to do this, and to my amazement,
came up with nothing. Can anyone direct me to where I can get info on
how to used Nero to get where I'm going?

Thanks

Mike
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I've tried several software packages for this purpose, and I've found that
to create a really good slide show with sound and commentary, you need to
think of the project as a movie, not a slide show. You can create
professional looking DVD movie titles and menus, and the resulting movie
will play on any DVD player and TV combination.

I've used Pinnacle Studio with great success. Each slide image is imported
into the movie timeline. You can have a default display duration for all
slides, and also adjust the duration of any slide individually, choose from
dozens of different transitions, and create a sound track which can be
edited precisely to match the slide transitions. You can insert title
screens to separate "chapters", choosing from a huge variety of fonts,
colors and special effects.If you want to get really creative, the latest
versions of Pinnacle also allow picture-in-picture, multiple images (think
of the TV series "24"), as well as pan and zoom effects to animate still
images.
 
I've tried several software packages for this purpose, and I've found that
to create a really good slide show with sound and commentary, you need to
think of the project as a movie, not a slide show. You can create
professional looking DVD movie titles and menus, and the resulting movie
will play on any DVD player and TV combination.

I've used Pinnacle Studio with great success. Each slide image is imported
into the movie timeline. You can have a default display duration for all
slides, and also adjust the duration of any slide individually, choose from
dozens of different transitions, and create a sound track which can be
edited precisely to match the slide transitions. You can insert title
screens to separate "chapters", choosing from a huge variety of fonts,
colors and special effects.If you want to get really creative, the latest
versions of Pinnacle also allow picture-in-picture, multiple images (think
of the TV series "24"), as well as pan and zoom effects to animate still
images.
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Based on several recommendations, I got the ProShow Gold. Initially,
I liked it a lot, and it had many of the features you mentioned above.
It's very intuitive and easy to use. BUT, I'm very disappointed in
its image resolution. Apparently, it resamples all images into its
own size and format. A 4000 ppi image of a hand-written document that
is crisp and readable on the monitor becomes illegible on a HDTV.

How does Pinnacle do on this? Easy to use? Cost?

Thanks

Mike
 
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