I need to make a life photoshow celebrating my wife's 80th birthday smoothly set to her fave music excerpts. Best program in today's world to organize such incl. music/picture synch, queuing, integrating slide changes & doing titles? Then keep the result for possible future showing? Tips especially appreciated for 1)copying/resurrecting old photos to project? 2)Integrated projector with quality hifi sound? My experience with prior similar is that appropriate music choices and hifi presentation are really key. Sample shows for ideas?
I'd also like to gather Happy Birthday messages from remote friends/family & incorporate as part of this with pic of the friend or possibly integrate a movie clip. Best fail safe ways to do all this?
petego4it wrote:
I need to make a life photoshow celebrating my wife's 80th birthday smoothly set to her fave music excerpts. Best program in today's world to organize such incl. music/picture synch, queuing, integrating slide changes & doing titles? Then keep the result for possible future showing? Tips especially appreciated for 1)copying/resurrecting old photos to project? 2)Integrated projector with quality hifi sound? My experience with prior similar is that appropriate music choices and hifi presentation are really key. Sample shows for ideas?
I'd also like to gather Happy Birthday messages from remote friends/family & incorporate as part of this with pic of the friend or possibly integrate a movie clip. Best fail safe ways to do all this?
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That is quite an undertaking. Way over my skill level. I once made a 32 minute ish 230 image ish video slide show of my own best and favorite images. I just ran once long John Coltrane piece of music through it. I burned it to DVD discs. And even that was a complex mess that was a headache. The software I used no longer works.
I have done many. Be prepared for dozens and dozens of hours of work.
Take a look at Photopia Director by Photodex. It’s subscription based. I used its predecessor, Proshow Gold, a stand alone program and it was great. Fairly easy learning curve with lots of help videos on their site. You can use their music or your own MP3 files. Plus adding in your own video clips.
1) "copying/resurrecting old photos to project?"
---> The newer addition of "Neural Filters" to Adobe's Photoshop is getting good reviews for restoring old scanned photos.
2) "Best program in today's world to organize such incl. music/picture synch, queuing, integrating slide changes & doing titles?"
---> There is no best. Lightroom Classic does all that. The more versatile mixed media programs include "video editors". All computers systems have at least one built in. Adobe provides several. A newer one, Adobe Express, is aimed at beginners, has a free version and is full of graphics tools. DaVinci Resolve is loaded with features and controls and has a free version.
Good luck! That's a big project.
CamB
Loc: Juneau, Alaska
I use Photomagico by Boinx. It’s not free but does everything you asked for. Photos and video clips can be dragged and dropped from Lightroom library view (if you’ve made them jpegs) Titles using any font on your computer are easy to do in any color and drop shadow or whatever. Any involved show with moves and audio and graphics takes takes many hours of work. From organizing and tuning up photos, to keeping things organized and then putting a show together is a huge job. I do one major show a year and I figure for every minute on screen is about ninety minutes of work.
Good luck. The first ten minutes of the show is the hardest until you get into the flow.
…Cam
I did my very lazy method for the photo show at my father's after funeral reception.
I resized all of the photos to 16x9 and put them on a memory stick.
Then I plugged this memory stick into a smart TV, went into the menu and selected "slideshow", then hit play.
I ran the music on a separate system to play a "mix tape" CD.
I know it is a cheesy shortcut but, it was my father's funeral. I was lucky to get it done.
Your birthday party event sounds like a lot more fun to me.
I use Wondershare/Filmora for those kinds of projects. Takes some time and learning but it’s not very difficult.
LibreOffice includes Impress, their Powerpoint alternative. It should have all the features of MS Office, maybe more.
Davinci Resolve does all those things in one free package
I've made lots of slideshows with music. Most slideshow programs offer generic music, but you can add your own. If you post it online, there could be a problem with copyrights. I've been using Movavi Slideshow Maker 8, but there are many programs available.
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
gvarner wrote:
Take a look at Photopia Director by Photodex. It’s subscription based. I used its predecessor, Proshow Gold, a stand alone program and it was great. Fairly easy learning curve with lots of help videos on their site. You can use their music or your own MP3 files. Plus adding in your own video clips.
I second Photodex. I own Proshow Gold and the more expensive Producer and they are excellent. Shame the company got sold. I'd be happy to show you some of my slide show examples, if you wish.
thank you all! Its been years since I did such and agree it will be a huge project. FortunatelyI have til end of March but time goes fast. I appreciate all the suggestions. Would love to see sample of your product Lucian and any others.
Lucian wrote:
I second Photodex. I own Proshow Gold and the more expensive Producer and they are excellent. Shame the company got sold. I'd be happy to show you some of my slide show examples, if you wish.
I too have Proshow Gold. It’s excellent.
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