Saturday, December 28, 2002

Creating a Quicktime Movie From an Image Sequence of Different Size Images

Derrick Story To The RescueI'm trying to create a Quicktime Movie using the Open Image Sequence command on a directory of images files with diffrent sizes. When I tried this with images of 320x240 and 240x320 from the parade, the landscape images got smoosched. It's like it only allows one size viewing when it creates the movie and fits all the images into that size. I thought I'd be able to add some sort of large backround as the first image and all the others would fit inside that, but no.

I'm calling out for help, Derrick Story. Or would it be this Derrick Story I'd ask for help. Both seem to know a lot about photography and Quicktime. We'll ask both.

Here's an on-line directory of the parade images, just in case you get creative. Or need examples.
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The Big Bay Balloon Parade SlideShow - And Many Ways To Try It

Just when I've said I'm buckling down, I remember there must be some pictures to go with our work for the week.

Here are the pictures I took on our trip to the Big Bay Balloon Parade today with my main man. Elmo was there too. There are currently three different ways to view the slide show, illustrating my fractured mind and a search for the right, true, easy, slide-show for the web format. Try each, they open up a new window to give you a trail back here (their each pretty different in many ways including that initial jolting now where am I kind). Then use the Comment [] link to tell me what you think.

2002.12.27 - Big Bay Balloon Parade - The New Jazz Thing

  • Quicktime Video (3.5MB). Embeded in a web page. This one scrunched the landscape oriented pictures, but there are possibilities for adding sound that remain untouched. The goal would be that you'd click on that picture above and it would commence to play the slideshow. This is how far we are right now. Quicktime Authors: How do I do an Open Image Sequence when I've got 320x240 pictures and 240x320 pictures in the slideshow? Help! Flash?
  • Thumbnail Web Slide Show (generated by PhotoElf software). Too much work to use, gotta click on each thumbnail to view, too much scrolling. Very easy to build. Needs back / forward / autoplay buttons. Doesn't require Quicktime and is speedy to load in the browser.
  • Automatic Slide Show (Javascript, generated by DigitalPhotoSlideShow software). Nice, needs back / forward / etc. buttons. Easy to build. No Quicktime. Speedy load.

    OK. Now Comment [] (below) away.
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