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PPT storyboarding with Photo Story 3
I decided to try the storyboarding approach for DVD creation using WinXP's
Photo Story 3. Here is the procedure I used, and the results for this system: XP Pro sp2 fully patched. Dell Latitude C 800 850 MHz 512 Meg RAM 12 Gb available HD space (1) open PPT presentation, saved all images as jpg. I didn't bother removing the animations or embeded icons for sound etc. This worked nicely. For 22 slides, takes about 4 minutes. (2) Open Photo Story 3 (dnld'd from MS) and import images, add sound clips to slides, adjust time delay on each slide (default is only 5 seconds) to allow sound to play. Adjust so there is no motion (zooming etc..) during slides and do color balance. NOTE: I found that for such a long presentation, with my hardware, previewing near final stage hangs/crashed Photo Story. So, SAVE the Procject frequently, definitely before you preview it :-). I find that if I close PhotoStory and preview separately in WMP 10, it plays fairly smoothly. (3) Since I am targetting DVD, saved the video file as "Profile for creating DVDs" NTSC 640x480 which is WMV Q=98 4:3 aspect ration and 30 ffs. Saving takes about 3 minutes for my config. (4) Opened Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3SE and tried to import that WMV file (which is a video file type supported by MovieFactory). Failed! Unsupported format. Used WinAVI to convert from WMV to DVD format (.vob). Conversion is fairly fast with WinAVI. Tried importing this vob into MovieFactory. FAILED ... audio type (Dolby.. ) not supported in MovieFactory. So looked carefully at WinAVI converter config. The DEFAULT for conversion is audio AC3 (Dolby digital) so disabled that and selected MPG2 audio. Converted again. SUCCESS. Ulead MovieFactory accepts that format. COnverts quickly (as close to target burning DVD format obviously). Created simply DVD setup (chapters etc..). Content length about 12 minutes. Ulead process and burns DVD (on external LG MultiSession DVD burner) in about 7 minutes. (Note ... must select 4:3 aspect ratio explictly in ULead MovieFactory!!) (5) Opened DVD on home DVD player. Results: Images are somewhat blurry. Text, which was good font size in original PPT are reasonably legible. Sound voice-overs on tracks are perfect. Transitions that were in storyboard are very poor in created DVD. Biggest annoyance was chopping around the edges. (Note recommendations in storyboarding articles about allowing sufficient border around images slides! ) So this first time experience in Storyboarding PPT images is reasonably good. It is reasonably labour intensive. Any comments on this: ? How would I use Photo Story 3 to ensure that the images quality in final DVD are better? I noticed that MS Movie Maker, if targetting DVD saves as uncompressed (large file) AVI. I assume that would help in the final DVD conversion? I'd like to get to the stage where my images are only limited by the TV display capabilities and not any intermediate conpression conversion process in intermediate stages from PPT exported images to DVD gen. - Mitch Gallant www.jensign.com |
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Forgot to add link to a typical layout screenshot of Photo Story 3:
http://www.jensign.com/photostory.jpg Nice iconic reminders of slide time, and if images have been modified and if/where sounds are included etc.. - Mitch |
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PPT storyboarding with Photo Story 3
To add some references, a very useful site on Movie Makes and Photo Story
is: http://www.papajohn.org/ - Mitch "Mitch Gallant" wrote in message ... Forgot to add link to a typical layout screenshot of Photo Story 3: http://www.jensign.com/photostory.jpg Nice iconic reminders of slide time, and if images have been modified and if/where sounds are included etc.. - Mitch |
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Mitch;
Thanks for posting this Definitely going to keep the parts that work g I was on that Radar Chain form 1956-1994 Per Ardu Ad Astra -- Please post all follow-up questions/replies to the newsgroup Email unless specifically requested will not be opened Do Provide The Version Of PowerPoint You Are Using Do Not Post Attachments In This Newsgroup Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP] "Mitch Gallant" wrote in message ... |I decided to try the storyboarding approach for DVD creation using WinXP's | Photo Story 3. | Here is the procedure I used, and the results for this system: | XP Pro sp2 fully patched. Dell Latitude C 800 850 MHz 512 Meg RAM 12 | Gb available HD space | | (1) open PPT presentation, saved all images as jpg. I didn't bother removing | the animations or embeded icons for sound etc. This worked nicely. For 22 | slides, takes about 4 minutes. | | (2) Open Photo Story 3 (dnld'd from MS) and import images, add sound clips | to slides, adjust time delay on each slide (default is only 5 seconds) to | allow sound to play. Adjust so there is no motion (zooming etc..) during | slides and do color balance. | NOTE: I found that for such a long presentation, with my hardware, | previewing near final stage hangs/crashed Photo Story. So, SAVE the Procject | frequently, definitely before you preview it :-). I find that if I close | PhotoStory and preview separately in WMP 10, it plays fairly smoothly. | | (3) Since I am targetting DVD, saved the video file as "Profile for | creating DVDs" NTSC 640x480 which is WMV Q=98 4:3 aspect ration and 30 | ffs. Saving takes about 3 minutes for my config. | | (4) Opened Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3SE and tried to import that WMV file | (which is a video file type supported by MovieFactory). Failed! Unsupported | format. | Used WinAVI to convert from WMV to DVD format (.vob). Conversion is | fairly fast with WinAVI. Tried importing this vob into MovieFactory. FAILED | .. audio type (Dolby.. ) not supported in MovieFactory. So looked carefully | at WinAVI converter config. The DEFAULT for conversion is audio AC3 (Dolby | digital) so disabled that and selected MPG2 audio. Converted again. SUCCESS. | Ulead MovieFactory accepts that format. COnverts quickly (as close to target | burning DVD format obviously). Created simply DVD setup (chapters etc..). | Content length about 12 minutes. Ulead process and burns DVD (on external LG | MultiSession DVD burner) in about 7 minutes. (Note ... must select 4:3 | aspect ratio explictly in ULead MovieFactory!!) | | (5) Opened DVD on home DVD player. Results: Images are somewhat blurry. | Text, which was good font size in original PPT are reasonably legible. | Sound voice-overs on tracks are perfect. Transitions that were in storyboard | are very poor in created DVD. Biggest annoyance was chopping around the | edges. (Note recommendations in storyboarding articles about allowing | sufficient border around images slides! ) | | So this first time experience in Storyboarding PPT images is reasonably | good. It is reasonably labour intensive. | Any comments on this: ? | How would I use Photo Story 3 to ensure that the images quality in final DVD | are better? I noticed that MS Movie Maker, if targetting DVD saves as | uncompressed (large file) AVI. I assume that would help in the final DVD | conversion? I'd like to get to the stage where my images are only limited by | the TV display capabilities and not any intermediate conpression conversion | process in intermediate stages from PPT exported images to DVD gen. | | - Mitch Gallant | www.jensign.com | | | | |
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"Mitch Gallant" wrote in message
... To add some references, a very useful site on Movie Makes and Photo Story is: http://www.papajohn.org/ Yeah, PapaJohn's a good guy. I don't think there's a PhotoStory group, but you might want to try news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...sxp.moviemaker and news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...indowsxp.video -- I know he posts quite frequently in those groups. As far as I'm concerned, you can crosspost to this group and those if you want, as I suspect many reading here would be interested in the answers to your Movie Maker and Photo Story questions also. They're a bit off-topic, but I think they're still very relevant. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com |
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As far as I'm concerned, you can crosspost to this group Amen to that. This is good stuff, Mitch, and there should be plenty of people here interested in reading it. Now. Later. Thanks for the post and keep 'em coming. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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"Echo S" wrote in message
... "Mitch Gallant" wrote in message ... To add some references, a very useful site on Movie Makes and Photo Story is: http://www.papajohn.org/ Yeah, PapaJohn's a good guy. I don't think there's a PhotoStory group, but you might want to try news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...sxp.moviemaker and news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...indowsxp.video -- I know he posts quite frequently in those groups. As far as I'm concerned, you can crosspost to this group and those if you want, as I suspect many reading here would be interested in the answers to your Movie Maker and Photo Story questions also. They're a bit off-topic, but I think they're still very relevant. Thanks for that infor. I fwd'd the link of this discussion to PapaJohn. I noticed in my DVD authoring software (Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3SE) that there is capability to storyboard directly within that app (didn't notice that until I had already storyboarded using Photo Story :-) I didn't see any "preview what this will roughly look likeon your TV" in MovieFactory before committing to burn to DVD. That might have showed the edge problems. I also have CyberLink PowerProducer DVD Gold authoring tool, but for some reason it will not open .. as I posted he http://www.cyberlink.com/english/cs/...=CS000 334921 I have expended about as much time as I can on solving that problem. For anyone who can REALLY provide the silver bullet to help solve my PowerProducer Gold hang for me, there is a gratis complete JavaScience web site content CD ready to be shipped as a reward I think sometimes when people user PowerPoint for too long, it tends to blind people as to the only way to go as the source slide authoring approach. But as I said, I am working with power-PowerPoint lovers so I must conform :-) - Mitch |
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"Mitch Gallant" wrote in message
... I didn't see any "preview what this will roughly look likeon your TV" in MovieFactory before committing to burn to DVD. That might have showed the edge problems. When you create stuff for TV display, you want to put nonimportant parts of the pictures in the margins because, while that area may show on some TVs, it may not show on others. And, as far as I know, there's really no way to tell ahead of time. So some products (Adobe products being some of them) have what's called a "safe area" indicator you can turn on. One's for titles, one's for margins. Anything inside the margin area will show on most (all?) TVs, and anything inside the "title safe area" is where you want any text to be if you want to be sure it will show on most (all?) TVs. I don't know the ULead products, but you might look for something like a "safe area" option in them. I think sometimes when people user PowerPoint for too long, it tends to blind people as to the only way to go as the source slide authoring approach. Totally agree. (I might say "source screen authoring," though.) -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com |
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PPT storyboarding with Photo Story 3
I think sometimes when people user PowerPoint for too long, it tends to blind people as to the only way to go as the source slide authoring approach. Hey buddy, you come into The Hammer Store, you get Hammer Advice. You wanna know about screwdrivers, ya go to Screwdrivers 'R Us. What can I say? Guilty as charged. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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PPT storyboarding with Photo Story 3
When you create stuff for TV display, you want to put nonimportant parts of the pictures in the margins because, while that area may show on some TVs, it may not show on others. And, as far as I know, there's really no way to tell ahead of time. So some products (Adobe products being some of them) have what's called a "safe area" indicator you can turn on. One's for titles, one's for margins. Anything inside the margin area will show on most (all?) TVs, and anything inside the "title safe area" is where you want any text to be if you want to be sure it will show on most (all?) TVs. I used to have all that info for 35mm slides, but if somebody can supply the safe title and safe margin areas for 4:3 pages, I can prolly whip up a little macro that toggles safe area indicators on/off. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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