Hello everyone,

I'm after a bit of help but don't really know where to start! I have the idea in my head but don't really have the terminology to find software on the internet to see if it's possible easily.

I have a series of photographs taken on a digital camera that I'd like to animate into a loop and then run a music track over it. There are about 500 images that i'd like to show one after another over about three minutes. It kind of gives the impression of quickly spooling through the window on the back of the camera so it looks like you're fast forwarding through the week.

Is this possible with easily available software? I understand it may take some time and that I'd have to resize the images (they are about 1mb each so would need to make them much smaller quality). As they'd be travelling so fast the quality isn't really too much of an importance.

If anyone could give me some pointers on whether this can be done it'd be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

S

http://www.imagesalsa.com/download.htm something like that?

Thanks for that,

I've downloaded the user guide, though it's quite long so will have to have a proper look through tomorrow. As far as I can make out the beginning section is letting you set up some sort of time lapse function to capture images on a (video) feed, whereas I already have the images already captured, but the second bit looks promising, which is where I am wanting to translate the five hundred odd shots into a single looped file.

I'll have a proper look tomorrow with less tired eyes but many thanks for the suggestion!

S

I myself and many other I know just use the free software that's provided with Windows XP called Windows Movie Maker. You can import JPG, BMP, GIF, MPG, AVI, any other format your computer is able to handle (via online upgrades called CODECS etc) but for basic JPG and Music it will work straight orf. You can crop and fade music to fit any time scale you see fit, overlap your tracks to make a prolonged production and also loads of effects for your images too (fade blends, rotations, flip outs and tons more). Wen it comes to saving your work you can instruct it to the Quality of the image too (If you are keeping the movie on your Hard Disk and you've a large Disk you may want maximum quality. I normally go for a Windows Media Video [WMV] format as the compression is quite high and will always work on any XP Computer).You'll find it in your START/ALL PROGRAMS menu in XP. Once you get into Movie Maker it's hard to get into anything else, Ive tried all sorts and WMM is so easy and friendly to use.

That looks very promising too, thanks for the suggestion

Gonna give the Windows one a go this evening, looks pretty simple to use.

I've imported all the pictures and the audio file and now just need to evenly distribute the total frames across the length of the track, without transitions so on picture just disappears to leave another. Should hopefully be ok though if I get stuck I'll let you know.

Thanks again you two, excellent stuff

S

yer, if you find the whole picture sequence doesn't quite fit the music, spread your blends a little heavier or lighter, is what I do, mix some video in there too, it'll take anything :o)

It works a treat! Brilliant, gonna have some fun with that. Muchos gracias!

S

download photo story 3 - free from microsoft - much better than movie maker - import your photos then you can select transitions and movement to each photo also you can put music on as well - easier than moviemaker which has a nasty habit of shutting down at a crucial moment. You need windows media player for the photo story 3 - there tutorials on line to assist you.