Hi Richard:

You can do similar stuff in Windows Movie Maker or whatever they call it now, but you start with 
images and create a timeframe. All too time-consuming. My few brushes with digital video editing and 
authoring have convinced me that my life is too short to run down that rat hole.

What I want is something that records my presentation, my live audio and my slides as they are being 
projected, in real-time, and then spits out something I can throw up on YouTube. I am pretty amazed 
this wasn't built in to Powerpoint, but it doesn't appear to be. I use Adobe Acrobat to project the 
slides anyway (because, unlike Powerpoint, Acrobat tends to be WYSIWYG with fonts and layouts even 
if I use the house computer).

The answer is probably some sort of interface with an iPhone that feeds video and audio at the same 
time, right off the house projection and PA systems.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] "Slide-tape show" Software (was Public Library of Cincinnati Institutes 
Stream of Presentations)


> Hi, Tom,
>
> In the 1970s (and I know we have discussed this previously on some list about archiving these 
> things), I made several slide-tape shows...the fanciest I ever progressed two was still a single 
> image and a same-rate dissolve for the entire program. I had wanted a way of archiving these in 
> the digital domain.
>
> About a year and a half ago, I was offered Magix PhotoStory for a good price (it is made by the 
> same people who make Samplitude/Sequoia, my DAW of choice). I installed it and then went on to do 
> other things. A family member passed about a year ago and I was voluntold that I was to make a 
> 10-minute video to play at the memorial service. The family scrounged up several hundred photos 
> and they suggested music.
>
> So, I spent about 100 hours putting together first the soundtrack (how do you fit ten songs into 
> ten minutes) and they OK'd it at 12 minutes.
>
> I then Photoshopped many of the 350 images and started dropping them in--in somewhat chronological 
> order at first and then later more to fit the words of the song fragments, ending with a reprise 
> of images.
>
> Since then, I have started on my well-received show of The Cathedrals and Abbeys of England, but 
> have not had the patience to align all 350 or so images with the soundtrack. While the images 
> worked reasonably well with a pair of Carousels, I now see that most could benefit from some 
> Photoshopping or Lightrooming (rapidly becoming my tool of choice when I start out with good 
> images and want to slightly improve them).
>
> Anyway, when bought on sale, the pricing is good. They seem to run sales fairly often.
>
> http://www.magix.com/us/photostory-on-cd-dvd/
>
> Anyway, I'm a happy user and I think I parted with $100 or so for my copy which is certainly not 
> free but it's not a kilobuck, either (like iZotope and the high-end Samplitude, and don't even 
> think about Sequoia in that price range).
>
> I see the workflow for what you're doing to be this:
>
> (1) Create the soundtrack
>
> (2) Turn the slides into a series of JPG files (maybe PNG would be a better choice for business 
> graphics, but I am not certain if PhotoStory supports PNG, but worth checking. Name the files so 
> that they sort in order. Place those in a separate folder.
>
> (3) Import the audio into PhotoStory.
>
> (4) Point PhotoStory to the folder with the final set of images.
> Now you see a "slide sorter" view in PhotoStory and as you drop each slide into the timeline, 
> there is a red marker on the image in the slide sorter showing it has been used, but it does not 
> stop you from reusing it.
>
> (5) Add transitions if you wish (I generally ignore most of the whoop-de-do ones).
>
> (6) Depending on what version you get (left up to the purchaser to determine) you can burn it into 
> a DVD, or make HD Windows Media files or other formats.
>
> I had tried many other approaches, mostly involving video editors (starting with Adobe Premiere 
> waaay back before the PCs even came close to being really powerful enough for this) and was 
> totally underwhelmed. This software met my needs for being relatively simple and relatively fast.
>
> There is a multi-track, multi-media timeline, so you can overlay titles over images and have the 
> titles stay across multiple images or only part of the time a particular image is up. Fades work 
> the same for audio or video.
>
> Anyway, I'd give it a try. I am not certain if this one has a downloadable demo, but many Magix 
> products do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 2013-11-14 8:04 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
>> I wish there were a program (maybe there is, but I bet it co$$$$ts)
>> where one could take a recording of his audio and have his slides in an
>> adjoining window and just go along and insert slide changes, so the
>> audio ends up in the same movie or flash file as the slides. Best would
>> be if one could just wear a lav mic and the computer both projects the
>> slides and records into the audio its recording where the slide changes
>> occur (look for the page down or arrow down key strikes).  Then at the
>> end of the presentation, the person just saves the file to a movie or
>> flash or whatever and can upload it right away to YouTube or whatever.
>> No silly grainy useless video, but words matched to slides. I've wanted
>> to do this with my AES presentations, but all software I've investigated
>> is way too much of a money-suck and/or a time-suck. The only way,
>> realistically, that I'd ever have time for this would be if it could be
>> recorded live as I do the presentations. I'm actually very surprised
>> that Adobe or YouTube haven't developed free software to do this,
>> because it would be a major selling point for their companies. If it
>> were Adobe, it would become very common and popular (oh, I'm running
>> Adobe whatever so the whole presentation will be online soon or, I'm
>> running YouTube Recorder, so it'll go right online when I'm done). I
>> can't imagine it's that hard, just a matter of capturing audio sync'd to
>> the computer's presentation software output and recording the whole
>> package into a digital video file.
> -- Richard L. Hess                   email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 
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>
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