Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] Slideshow software suggestions
From: h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)
Date: Tue Nov 18 11:16:00 2008

I'll be interested to see what people say about this. I've got MS Office for 
Mac and I'm pretty sure you could do all this in a powerpoint, which allows 
you to easily bring in video and sound (but not to do any video or sound 
editing,of course)


--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Don Lawrence <DLawrence@fkp.com> wrote:

> From: Don Lawrence <DLawrence@fkp.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Slideshow software suggestions
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 1:01 PM
> I have for many years used imovie on the Mac to make slide
> shows with
> video excerpts and music for family and friends.
> In the latest version, Apple totally reworked the user
> interface and to
> me it has become very difficult to use the way I am use to.
> 
> I am looking for suggestions for a Mac software to replace
> the imovie
> program.
> I found a simple and cheap ($49) program called 'Photo
> to Movie' that
> works quite well for simple slide shows with music.
> It will let you do advanced panning (Ken Burn's
> effect), but its
> limitation is not accepting video clips.
> 
> I have considered Final Cut Express, but have read that the
> newest
> version has a similar interface to imovie and that is not
> good.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> Thanks
> Don Lawrence
> 
> 
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