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Subject: Re: Slideshow!
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bob.gearhart{at}fanciful.org wrote:

>  LnbolchPhotoelusplanet.net said to Photo at 02-02-03  13:00
>  Subject: Slideshow!
>
>  Ln> effect. I have done a music track for all of these using Band-in-a-
> Box  Ln> that I mentioned to Karen in the previous message. While timing
> is a  Ln> little slack in FotoAngelo, one can sync the soundtrack with
> total  Ln> accuracy in VV-LE.
>
>  I like mixing in tracks and loops from someone elses music, having
>  not the slightest amount of talant in the fingers department, I can
>  still create some pretty cool stuff.
>
>  Ln> These end up as AVIs and are much larger than FotoAngelo slide shows.
>  Ln> Of course with CD-ROMs, this is of little consequence.
>
>  Check out the http://www.vcdhelp.com/ site, you can find a lot of
>  freebie ways to convert avi's to mpeg's.   TMPGEnc comes to mind.
>  A 2 gig avi becomes about 60 meg of mpeg.  That is unless your
>  using DIV-X codec, where for some unknown reason they generate
>  their files with an avi extention when the file is compressed to
>  their own version of mpeg-4.

And of course, there is WMV format, which I have found does a super job of
compressing. It requiress Micro$oft's media player for the most part, but
most people have it anyway. I have found that at the higher data rates the
artifacting is minimal, but the compression is awesome. I do the conversion
in SoundForge.

larry!
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http://www.larry-bolch.com/

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