PictureToTV Software for Photos

[woodhobby]

I have stumbbled across a program called: Picture To TV at the following site: www.picturetotv.com

Just wondering if anyone has used this program, and if you recommend it?

Thanks in advance.

[bdubnpaw]

Just seen that software in action over the holidays. Does an excellent job! Video was played on a big screen projection tv(not hdtv), and it looked great! I am planning on buying it real soon. Found another site that does similar job, but doesn't say anything about the transition from on picture to the next. Here is the link: http://www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com/index.html It's a little cheaper, but I think I may go with the first one. Hope this helps!

Brian

[UK_Terry]

Here is a link to another program.

http://www.photodex.com/products/proshow/

has anyone used any of the products?
and what is the best one?

[UK_Terry]

Bought one, brought home opened the box and was watching a show of Photos with music within 2 hours.
simple and relatively cheap.

Pinnacle Expression.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage.asp?Product_ID=603&Langue_ID=2

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[jag_uk]

You may wish to consider SSMM (http://www.joern-thiemann.de/tools/ssmm/).

It's perhaps not as function rich as the others mentioned here (I woudln't know) but it's free!

I found it quite adequate at the price.

Just my 10p worth (inflation's a b*gg*r isn't it?)

[Anona]

I'm having a hell of a time getting ShowPro to work on my XP system. For some reason it does not want to recognize (initialize) my ASPI manager. I have no problem "burning" photos or music with my Roxie Easy CD Creator. Any thoughts? I"d hate to purchase the download if I can"t make it work. Other than that it seem like a SUPER program.

[lord.hypnos]

Anona wrote:
I'm having a hell of a time getting ShowPro to work on my XP system. For some reason it does not want to recognize (initialize) my ASPI manager. I have no problem "burning" photos or music with my Roxie Easy CD Creator. Any thoughts? I"d hate to purchase the download if I can"t make it work. Other than that it seem like a SUPER program.

Do you have an ASPI layer installed? By default Win2k/XP don't have one. You can download Adaptec's and see if that solves the problem:
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2fOperating+System%2fMicrosoft+Windows+XP&filekey=aspi_471a2.exe

[bdubnpaw]

That's nice and all that it's free, but I think the original message posted was looking for a program that you could create a project to be played on a dvd player. Thanks for the information though.

[Anona]

Well, so far "close but no cigar." I'm still having trouble with ProShow even with the above suggested download. I'm beginning to think it's operator error!@#$ But I'm certanly willing to try any other suggestions. To be specific...I'm looking for a program that will transfer selected pix AND AUDIO to a CD for viewing on EITHER a DVD player or PC. ProShow is PERFECT! I just can't get it to work.

My appologies (sp) to the string originator for butting in but I've been on the hunt for quite some time.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

BJ

[drudis]

I use www.sonic.com software that came with my CenDyne DVD-R unit. It VERY easily puts slideshows onto the DVD-R disk.
Best thing is you can burn CD-R's (if your DVD is capable of playing them)and the CD's are cheaper.

I have just started on al this, since this Christmas, and have made several VIDEO DVD's and PHOTO DVD's with music, and lose a little quality and burn to CD-R. Great software for quite impressive results.


Check out www.yesbuy.net for media. OUTSTANDING prices!

[Jerry Vanderberg]

There are a lot of programs out there. One can find a comparative review of many of them at http://www.photosoftwarereview.com/table1.html

An important requirement for me was that the program also accept avi clips, as they give an extra dimension to a slide show. By far, the best that I have seen so far is CyberLink MediaShow. You can try a free trial download from http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/products/product_main.jsp?ProdId=30

The main problem is that is not not yet fully compatible with Microsoft XP. It does almost everything but there are a few bugs that they claim they will resolve in a fully XP-compatible upgrade. Check it out for its enormous power for slide transitions, text insertion with many, many different effects, etc.

[mikedavid]

When looking at software to create VCDs that play on DVD players, be careful to determine at what resolution the digital photos will be presented on the VCD.

Most of the software will present the photos using MPG1 compression - I find that when viewed on the TV, the quality is quite poor. You will find that slideshows that allow different fading transition effects as you view the slides will have this problem.

Other software, such as Ulead Systems Picture Show 2, will present the photos in a DVD quality resolution. If you permit fades between photos, however, it will revert back to the poor MPG1 compression.

I've used Picture Show 2, and have been reasonably pleased with the results. You can attach music to the opening screen, different slide shows, and even to each individual slide. You can also annotate the slides with text.

Hope this helps!

[memuser]

Thats wrong MikeDavid,

If you use transitions it does not revert to mpeg1. I create slideshow all the time using Pictures Show 2 with transitions and encode to dvd complaint mpeg2 files.

[mikedavid]

memuser -

You may be correct when creating DVDs. I was referring to the creation of VCDs, where using transitions will result in lower quality images than using no transitions at all.

[biscuit]

hi guys,

i've downloaded picture2tv but everytime i got to generate a video file, my computer gets to 19% then crashes! any ideas?

my file is only 100mb and i've got about 20gb free so i doubt it is a hard disk space issue.

please help! i'm desparate to get this to work.

thanks,

biscuit