DVD Photo montage? in Vegas?

[Bill Grant]

Ok, I got an e-mail from an aunt of a bride asking for a "DVD Photo Album" of all of the photos from the wedding. What would be the best way to do this in Vegas/DVDA I could drag the pics on to the timeline and render. Is this the best way? Whatdya think?
Bill

[ppatton]

you may want to set them up to the beat of the music for transition points and do pan and scans and/or fly in multiple images at once or nearly at once. How upbeat or bland depends on how you set it up and the music bed

and How may images???

paul

[Bill Grant]

Thanks for the response sorry I guess I should give you more info. We're talking about 468 images. Everything from the wedding. She doesn't want music, just the images in a slideshow. I just sold her the DVD of the weddding for $40 and I think she probably would want this at about the same price. I can set up a photo compilation in DVDA that just sets them on a timeline for 5 seconds each, that puts automatic chapter stops after every one. Or I can lay them on the timeline in Vegas and render them, which would give me more control over the images, but no chapter stops. The DVDA solution seems to put them on the timeline in some order that I can't figure how to control. I'm talking no pans, zooms, transitions, Ken Burns anything. what would you do for $40?
Bill

[ppatton]

drop um in dvd-a and go for it and I hope they are digital images, on their own already digitized thats a grand worth of editing to do it any other way.

paul

[Bill Grant]

yep digital, and at least a grand worth of editing to do anything but slap it on and go... thanks paul.
bill

[RatVega]

Ok, I got an e-mail from an aunt of a bride asking for a "DVD Photo Album" of all of the photos from the wedding. What would be the best way to do this in Vegas/DVDA I could drag the pics on to the timeline and render. Is this the best way? Whatdya think?
Bill

Can you just throw them into a timeline with a default Page Turn transition?

I agree that at 400+ images anything more would be crazy, but it'd be in the spirit of "photo album"... I like chapter marks, but in this case the pause button is fine.

[Bill Grant]

is there a way to automate the transitions? We are thinking that this might become a new add-on if we can figure out a way to do it easily...
Bill

[JC/DV]

Hey Bill, she's not asking for much huh??? In vegas bring in all your photos into the media bin. Under options set the default still image time. Set default overlap duration. Set the default transition to whatever you want... crossfade, etc.

Click on ALL the images in the media bin and bring into timeline. Now you're set. Just sit back and render it.

If you import into DVD-A it will add chapter marks after each image, but DVDs only allow 99 chapter markers so you're screwed there, unless you want to do 4+ DVDs for the project.

Another option is to just copy all the images to a CD or DVD and tell her to open in Windows Explorer and choose slideshow to view the folder.

Have fun!

[Bill Grant]

Hey Man,
Well the problem is that I think if I give the actual photos on a CD or whatever, she could just print them at will etc. I don't mind the bride and groom doing this but not the aunt. I think I will just do what you're saying there. Thanks.
Bill

[Edward]

is there a way to automate the transitions? We are thinking that this might become a new add-on if we can figure out a way to do it easily...
Bill

Yes there is. It's called scripting. With scripting you can randomly add selected transitions between images. You can also automatically and pans and zooms to all images (as well as set the "Match Output Aspect" setting). Excalibur and Ultimate S will both do this. I have a sample photo montage video at www.jetdv.com/excalibur (http://www.jetdv.com/excalibur) which shows how this can be done. There's a free script floating around that can change the transitions for you.