[ale] Slide Show Software[OT]

[Jeff Hubbs]

David, look and see if ImageMagick can kick out an MPEG - that's the
only thing that comes to mind...

Jeff

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 17:10, David Corbin wrote:
> I'm looking for a recommendation for slide show software.  I don't mean JUST a 
> program that takes a bunch of jpegs and shows them one after another.  My 
> mother (and her friend) has a whole bunch (I'd guess 50) of slide shows (the 
> traditiional type, with color positive films in little cardboard frames) that 
> are set to music.  The audio recording has some type (inaudiable) of signal 
> on it that drives the two slide projectors to "change".
> 
> My mother and her partner have finally decided to "digitize" the shows.  She 
> has the slide-scanner, and I'm sure I can hook up the audio and record that.  
> But I'd like to find a piece of software that has the necessary features for 
> her.  
> 
> Necessary Features:
> 1) Support Audio w/show
> 2) Many transition choices
> 3) Windows compatible for creation
> 4) Freely distribituable player or really pervasive format
> 5) Really easy to use (my mother gets by on the computer, but a geek she's 
> not).
> 
> Nice to have Features:
> 1) Open Source
> 2) Automatically detects existing audio "change" signal (not sure what it is)
> 
> 
> Anybody have any experience with such?
> 
> David
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