iPhoto does the trick.
Having added sound to QTVR panoramas, how about a straight slideshow with music?
No problem. Place the slides in a folder in iPhoto, click on the iTunes icon to add your favorite music and Export the result to a file – this will be saved as a QuickTime .mov movie.
File sizes tend to bulk up even with medium quality pictures – twelve pictures and a 400kB sound file came to almost 12 mB in this case, so give it a while to download. It takes some 30 seconds with my broadband connection and G5 iMac. You can do all sorts of fancy transitions in iPhoto but I find that a simple fade to black is just right. I cut the music selection down to 60 second in Audacity, with a fade in and fade out at the ends; by telling iPhoto to display each picture for 5 seconds, sound and images match. Further, to play it safe, I told iPhoto to match the slideshow duration to the overall length of the music, thus keeping everything in sync.
I hope you enjoy the result – I think you will find it an improvement on a static web page layout. Make sure your speakers are turned on.
This is a strange throwback to days past when the family would congregate around the 35mm projector to view the latest Kodachromes.
The result can be viewed on any Mac or on a PC with QuickTime – available free for Windows from Apple.
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Hi Thomas,
I like the slide show… Do you know software called Pro Show Gold, from Photodex…http://www.photodex.com/…? I don´t know if it works on Macs…but it is very nice.
Take a look at this link…It is a slideshow that I did with some pictures of my daugther..you can put them on DVD..etc…
http://cravoecanelaphoto.com/arquivos/Baby.exe
I enjoyed a lot your experiments with QTVR and HDRI. I work with CGI for architecture and these kind of high dynamic range images are very common on this kind of image. We use them to get more real light and reflections on our scenes.
All the best…
You are doing very nice work on this blog.
Daniel
Daniel – thanks. As I use an Apple I cannot view .exe files, I’m afraid.
Thomas