[ale] Special effects used while creating a slide show

[Jim Lynch]

William Bagwell wrote:
> On Sunday 29 November 2009, Robert Reese wrote:
>   
>> ProShow Gold doesn't work on Linux, unfortunately, 
>>     
>
> Can with Cross Over. Only gets a "Silver" but what do you expect from 
> software that sticks "Gold" in its name;-)
>
> http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1930
>
> Apparently does not with plain Wine, since the only mention I found was a 
> mention of "Photodex ProShowGold crashes on service startup" in an 
> announcement from January.
>   
Thank you one and all for an enlightening discussion.  From the 
reference to Ken Burns Effect I located a program, "DVD Slideshow GUI" 
(free windows app) that fits the bill nicely.  It's so seldom these days 
to find a program that is intuitive and complex at the same time.  With 
almost no outside help, I was able to create a nice video using the pan 
and zoom features of this program under wine.  The only thing that 
didn't work was the player didn't give me any audio, but that's probably 
because I don't have wine working with audio.  The resultant .mpg file 
looked great on mplayer.

Thanks,
Jim.