I don?t know if this has been covered before, but MS Photo Storey is a free download that allows you to load a series of pictures and turn them into a slide-show movie file (wmv).
The wmv file can then be loaded into MS Movie Maker file and incorporated into other ?real? movies..
I have the XP version, but I think a Win7 version is available.
I know that mightn?t sound too exciting but a feature I like is the ability to zoom in/out/around a picture. Here?s an example of what I mean.
Say I have picture of a number of my locos like this, and I want to zoom in onto a couple of them.
(it really should be a higher resolution pic!)
You can see the effect I?m describing after I converted it to a wmv file here:
http://youtu.be/KVfqnk2mfq4
I know you could do a similar thing with a video camera, but my simple ?still? camera doesn?t allow zooming whilst filming.
Here?s how I did it.
I loaded the same picture into Photo Story 7 times.
Then I set the 1st slide to show the whole pic for 5 seconds by ticking ?set end position to be same as start position?.
In the 2nd slide I selected a transition from whole slide zooming down to end on the blue Garratt in 5sec by ticking ? set start position to be same as end position of previous picture?, and then dragged the box to the new position over the Garratt.
For the 3rd slide I wanted to remain on the same position for 5 seconds, so I ticked ?set end position to be same as start position? again.
For the 4th slide I wanted to zoom across to the green loco in the centre, so I dragged the end position box to be over the loco. I selected a 3 sec transition for this as it is not moving as far as the first move.
The 5th slide remains the same; as per the 3rd slide.
The 6th slide transitions to the Tram as per 2nd slide, and
The 7th slide remains on the tram.
On every slide I ticked ?specify start and end position of motion?, and selected Transition Tab and UNticked ?start current picture with a transition?.
Unfortunately you can?t put captions on the ?zoomed? sections as the words always cover the whole slide. I put a caption on the first slide only as it was ?full size?. But you can add captions in Movie Maker which is what I did for the 3rd and 4th captions in the video.
Anyone else got any other ideas for using Photo Story?
The wmv file can then be loaded into MS Movie Maker file and incorporated into other ?real? movies..
I have the XP version, but I think a Win7 version is available.
I know that mightn?t sound too exciting but a feature I like is the ability to zoom in/out/around a picture. Here?s an example of what I mean.
Say I have picture of a number of my locos like this, and I want to zoom in onto a couple of them.
(it really should be a higher resolution pic!)
You can see the effect I?m describing after I converted it to a wmv file here:
http://youtu.be/KVfqnk2mfq4
I know you could do a similar thing with a video camera, but my simple ?still? camera doesn?t allow zooming whilst filming.
Here?s how I did it.
I loaded the same picture into Photo Story 7 times.
Then I set the 1st slide to show the whole pic for 5 seconds by ticking ?set end position to be same as start position?.
In the 2nd slide I selected a transition from whole slide zooming down to end on the blue Garratt in 5sec by ticking ? set start position to be same as end position of previous picture?, and then dragged the box to the new position over the Garratt.
For the 3rd slide I wanted to remain on the same position for 5 seconds, so I ticked ?set end position to be same as start position? again.
For the 4th slide I wanted to zoom across to the green loco in the centre, so I dragged the end position box to be over the loco. I selected a 3 sec transition for this as it is not moving as far as the first move.
The 5th slide remains the same; as per the 3rd slide.
The 6th slide transitions to the Tram as per 2nd slide, and
The 7th slide remains on the tram.
On every slide I ticked ?specify start and end position of motion?, and selected Transition Tab and UNticked ?start current picture with a transition?.
Unfortunately you can?t put captions on the ?zoomed? sections as the words always cover the whole slide. I put a caption on the first slide only as it was ?full size?. But you can add captions in Movie Maker which is what I did for the 3rd and 4th captions in the video.
Anyone else got any other ideas for using Photo Story?