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boanerges · Jan 11, 2002, 11:54 PM

Help!
I'm making a slide show with jpeg pics using QTime 5.0.2. I have the instructions in front of me, and am following them. when I Open Image Sequence from the File menu and select the first file a movie is created, but only with the first pic.
I have tried renaming the pics with numbers only, numbers and a name (the same for all the pics) but nothing gives me all the pics, only one. I have tried to drag and drop to the window, but it will not accept.
Some movie!
Anyway, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
JV

T Allen · Jan 12, 2002, 07:54 PM

Those steps work for me. Are you using QT Pro?

boanerges · Jan 12, 2002, 10:21 PM

yes, QT Pro, 5.0.2
Beats me.
JV

Jan 13, 2002, 04:35 AM

Did you try using the same name but with a number sequence such as the following?
image01, image02, image03.

This worked ok for me.

boanerges · Jan 13, 2002, 11:02 PM

this is really weird.
I have done as you suggested, naming the pics image01, image02, image03, etc. and guess what? Now I get two pics for my movie, but only two, no more.
I have tried trashing the prefs file. Don't know where else to go.
suggestions?
JV

boanerges · Jan 13, 2002, 11:08 PM

this is really weird.
I have done as you suggested, naming the pics image01, image02, image03, etc. and guess what? Now I get two pics for my movie, but only two, no more.
I have tried trashing the prefs file. Don't know where else to go.
suggestions?
JV

boanerges · Jan 14, 2002, 10:27 AM

Got it!
I had been using aliases as I didn't want to lose the titles of the pics. Apparently sometimes this works, sometimes not. Don't know why. That had been recommended to me by another.

This time I made a duplicate and changed the titles as you had suggested. Works great. Thanks.

Now if there were only some way of having a cross fade between pics.
JV

T Allen · Jan 14, 2002, 11:17 AM

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"Now if there were only some way of having a cross fade between pics."

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'MakeEffectMovie' will do the job. It uses the QT Player to generate the transition, so the size of the file remains very small.

There is also 'MakeEffectSlideShow', which I haven't used but from its name sounds like it might take the work out of doing several slide transitions. Both are available at:
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime...meintro/tools/

typoon · Jan 16, 2002, 01:31 PM

Have you tried using iPhoto's Export as slide show option? That might work for you as well.

tgcox · Jan 17, 2002, 10:34 PM

If you don't mind a utilitarian slide show that simply flips from one photo to the next, much like those made with QuickTime Pro Player, then try iPhoto's Export:Slide Show option.

If you want a sound track as well there are two options. Use iPhoto's applescript "Make Audio Slide Show", or open an aiff file with QT Pro, copy it, then add it to the slide show movie you made with iPhoto's export command.

There's a shareware program called iSlideShow that can make QuickTime Slide Shows with transitional effects between frames. I don't know if it includes tracks for audio.

Has anyone noticed that iPhoto's real time slide show and the exportable QuickTime slide show it makes are dramatically different? Aside from the fact that the real time show crossfades artfully between frames and has background audio, it also enlarges the images to fill the monitor with little aliasing. By comparison, the QuickTime slide show is grainy if played at the same size. Does anyone know how iPhoto accomplishes this? Is it converting the images to another format that the Quartz engine favors (i.e. PDF)?

[ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: tgcox ]