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Slide-show software wanted, similar to Still Life?

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Harry Harris

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Mar 19, 2003, 5:59:11 PM3/19/03
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A friend of mine uses a Mac and has a program called 'Still Life' that
makes slide shows from still images.

The cool thing about it is that it allows you to zoom in, spin, move
etc. within the image, rather like a rostrum camera.

Does anyone know if there's an equivalent program available for the PC
at all?

Thanks in advance,
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Harry

Harry Harris

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Mar 19, 2003, 7:04:58 PM3/19/03
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In article <azuSyEA$YPe+...@triotech.demon.co.uk>, Harry Harris
<ha...@triotech.demon.co.uk> writes

Sorry, replying to my own message here, isn't that the first sign of
madness? ;)

What I meant to say about 'still life' is that it allows you to create
moving shots from a still image, meaning for example you can zoom in on
the image, even while rotating the 'camera' as it were, or start at one
section of a photo and then move across to another section, things like
that - then export the slide show to various formats such as Quick time
or MPEG as a movie.

That's what I'm looking to do with something similar to 'Still Life' but
on the PC.

Thanks!

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Harry

Harry Harris

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Mar 20, 2003, 7:24:17 PM3/20/03
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In article <R8bghRAq...@triotech.demon.co.uk>, Harry Harris

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller!

;)

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Harry

GregorS

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Mar 21, 2003, 3:18:03 PM3/21/03
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:04:58 +0000, Harry Harris
<ha...@triotech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>What I meant to say about 'still life' is that it allows you to create
>moving shots from a still image, meaning for example you can zoom in on
>the image, even while rotating the 'camera' as it were, or start at one
>section of a photo and then move across to another section, things like
>that - then export the slide show to various formats such as Quick time
>or MPEG as a movie.
>
>That's what I'm looking to do with something similar to 'Still Life' but
>on the PC.
>
>Thanks!

You might want to check out ULead's PhotoImpact 8.0. It has quite
a few animation options and transform tools that allow you to
capture the changes it can produce in hundreds of frames and save
them as animated GIF files. Some of them you can edit to change
the effects. You could import the animated gif output into some
other editor to convert to a movie format I suppose. It's not as
elaborate as what you describe, but then I've not tested all that
can be done with it.

The other option I was thinking of was using any of the movie
editing software like Vegas Video of Video Factory and using all
their transform tools, some of them even allow you to set the
path of the motion or flip a frame around in a 3D space as a flat
rotating panel that disappears. Things like that. Import a still
image and spread it across the time-span you require, then apply
any of the various wipes and special effects to it.

I've not done enough movie editing to know which piece of
software does this the best.


Harry Harris

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Mar 21, 2003, 8:51:57 PM3/21/03
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In article <iesm7vsuv9n5bo09i...@4ax.com>, GregorS
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Thanks Gregor,

Vegas Video or Video Factory sound more like the things I need to look
at, I'll check them out. Thank you.

Anyone else?

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