Hopefully this is a simple one. I want to create a slide show that will allow me to manually flip back and forth between slides as I talk through the presentation. So far I have only found ways to set a time for slides to transition automatically, which I don't want.
I know it is able with Pictures2Exe....but since I have no good experiences with ProShow Gold (Slide/Music-sync problems) I can't give any advice on that program
No Guy...you can't manually control with PS Gold. I use it extensively for presentations, and that's one of the negatives.
I use Pictures to Exe for the few occasions that I need to manually advance slides. To manually advance in Pic to Exe, go to the Project Options menu and under the "Main: tab unclick the box that controls the slide length of time. The go to the "Advanced" tab to choose which mouse actions will control slides.
Hope this helps!
As Terri said, you can't do this with ProShow or Producer or with the majority of slide show programs, but you can with PicturesToExe. You can go forward, backward, jump to the first slide from anywhere in the show, print any slide with a click of the mouse, display the file name if you wish, etc. You can also run external code (executable files), objects, etc., and with the to be released version 5.0 now in beta you will be able to do things with Ken Burns Effects and high resolution images which can't be done with any other slideshow program.
Stop over at the Wnsoft forum - link below - and nose around. I think you will be surprised at what's going on..
That's exactly what I ended up doing (bought a license for PicturesToExe). I wish I had known this in advance though. It seems such an obvious feature for a slide show software. Even PowerPoint can do it.
I suspect much of the issue with not having this capability revolves around the frenzy among developers of slideshow programs to create the Ken Burns Effects. In order to add the zoom, pan, rotate and scroll effects to still images they must necessarily be converted into video formats with high frame rates. To keep smoothness of operation for the entire slideshow it would be difficult from a programming perspective to increment stops between individual segments (slides). If you've done video editing you know how hard can sometimes be to find just the right frame to break or splice segments without adding a few transition frames. It's easy enough when you can actually re-create (encode) the video, but doing it "on the fly" while still permitting a contiguous show as well becomes problematic.
P2E has been slow to the table with the Ken Burns Effects and to do what they have accomplished with the version 5 beta required a totally new and different approach than the rest of the developers. To keep the old capabilities such as manual advancement, going backward, etc., they actually have two graphical engines. When a slideshow with the Ken Burns Effects is created the new graphical engine is being used and when one creates a conventional slideshow without using these animation effects the old engine is used.
So even with P2E I doubt it will be possible to have these animation effects "and" the ability to step forward, backward, etc., through the show. However it will be very, very easy to simply render two "versions" of your slideshow so that one will have this capability and the other will have the motion effects. This will let the photographer have both a tool for presentations there is a need to stop and start as well as one for a continuous, unbroken, "movie" type presentation.
That's too bad, Lin. I find that a lot of good software ends up being a major pain when developers are too eager to add bells and whistles (see Microsoft Word as a classic example).
To me adding pizzaz at the expense of essential basic functionality seems pretty silly. It might make the developers happy but ultimately hurts the users. Any software development manager knows this risk and a good one will know when to pull the reigns and put user requirements ahead of "cool" extensions.
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6 repliesHopefully this is a simple one. I want to create a slide show that will allow me to manually flip back and forth between slides as I talk through the presentation. So far I have only found ways to set a time for slides to transition automatically, which I don't want.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Guy
I know it is able with Pictures2Exe....but since I have no good experiences with ProShow Gold (Slide/Music-sync problems) I can't give any advice on that program
I use Pictures to Exe for the few occasions that I need to manually advance slides. To manually advance in Pic to Exe, go to the Project Options menu and under the "Main: tab unclick the box that controls the slide length of time. The go to the "Advanced" tab to choose which mouse actions will control slides.
Hope this helps!
As Terri said, you can't do this with ProShow or Producer or with the majority of slide show programs, but you can with PicturesToExe. You can go forward, backward, jump to the first slide from anywhere in the show, print any slide with a click of the mouse, display the file name if you wish, etc. You can also run external code (executable files), objects, etc., and with the to be released version 5.0 now in beta you will be able to do things with Ken Burns Effects and high resolution images which can't be done with any other slideshow program.
Stop over at the Wnsoft forum - link below - and nose around. I think you will be surprised at what's going on..
http://www.wnsoft.com then click on "forums" then on the PicturesToExe link
Best regards,
Lin
That's exactly what I ended up doing (bought a license for PicturesToExe). I wish I had known this in advance though. It seems such an obvious feature for a slide show software. Even PowerPoint can do it.
Guy
I suspect much of the issue with not having this capability revolves around the frenzy among developers of slideshow programs to create the Ken Burns Effects. In order to add the zoom, pan, rotate and scroll effects to still images they must necessarily be converted into video formats with high frame rates. To keep smoothness of operation for the entire slideshow it would be difficult from a programming perspective to increment stops between individual segments (slides). If you've done video editing you know how hard can sometimes be to find just the right frame to break or splice segments without adding a few transition frames. It's easy enough when you can actually re-create (encode) the video, but doing it "on the fly" while still permitting a contiguous show as well becomes problematic.
P2E has been slow to the table with the Ken Burns Effects and to do what they have accomplished with the version 5 beta required a totally new and different approach than the rest of the developers. To keep the old capabilities such as manual advancement, going backward, etc., they actually have two graphical engines. When a slideshow with the Ken Burns Effects is created the new graphical engine is being used and when one creates a conventional slideshow without using these animation effects the old engine is used.
So even with P2E I doubt it will be possible to have these animation effects "and" the ability to step forward, backward, etc., through the show. However it will be very, very easy to simply render two "versions" of your slideshow so that one will have this capability and the other will have the motion effects. This will let the photographer have both a tool for presentations there is a need to stop and start as well as one for a continuous, unbroken, "movie" type presentation.
Best regards,
Lin
To me adding pizzaz at the expense of essential basic functionality seems pretty silly. It might make the developers happy but ultimately hurts the users. Any software development manager knows this risk and a good one will know when to pull the reigns and put user requirements ahead of "cool" extensions.
Guy