Photo Slides Builder vs. PhotoStory
I recently discussed enhancements to the Photo Slides Builder. A number of SSP users also use Microsoft's PhotoStory product to create slide show based video files. A common use of PhotoStory is to quickly create videos to show off pictures from a recent event, like a mission trip or VBS. PhotoStory is used despite the fact that SSP has had a similar feature for quite some time. One reason given to me for this is that PhotoStory provides a pan/zoom effect. Well, with the July 2008 Edition of SSP, pan / zoom is now an option in the Photo Slides Builder (when the Cinematic Effects Collection is installed and licensed).
This improvement should now make it more compelling to stick with the SSP tool for quickly building slide shows. In contrast to PhotoStory, the SSP tool doesn't require the rendering of a video file. Instead, it creates a slide show that you can then customize if you wish to do so.
Another difference between the two tool is how they render captions. PhotoStory places a caption on an image, then pan/zooms the image along with the caption. We think this is not the best way to do captions. The Photo Slides Builder makes it so that the caption is rendered separately from the image so that it is not affected by pan/zoom.
The examples below demonstrate the difference. The first example is a slide show built using PhotoStory. The second is one built using SSP's Photo Slides Builder.
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I also really like the UI for setting the pan/zoom in PhotoStory.
But it is nice to have the caption out of the picture frame. And it's really nice that you don't have to rerender an entire .wmv when you make a change, like you do in PhotoStory.
Am I the only one that only gets white boxes where the videos should be? I'm useing IE7.
Make sure that you have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed.
I know what the issue is. When I did the PSB slide show last weekend, several pics were portrait, not landscape, and pan/zoom left the black edges on the slide. I didn't know enough to try to work around that.
Ah yes. When the aspect ratio of the image does not match the aspect ratio of the display, SSP will present the pan / zoom differently than what PhotoStory does. That has been the topic of some internal discussion here.
Am I the only one that only gets white boxes where the videos should be? I'm useing IE7.
I also can't see the movies and have updated the flash. The page never gets finished loading. I've left it for 1-2 Hours and they're still loading. This also is the case on the last Blog entry.
I'm not on dialup so it should be done in a few seconds.
Am I the only one that only gets white boxes where the videos should be? I'm useing IE7.
I also can't see the movies and have updated the flash. The page never gets finished loading. I've left it for 1-2 Hours and they're still loading. This also is the case on the last Blog entry.
I'm not on dialup so it should be done in a few seconds.
Ditto.
Am I the only one that only gets white boxes where the videos should be? I'm useing IE7.
I don't like that when you are finished your slide show can only be seen in SSP. I wish there were an export function to export the slide show to other formats.
However, SSP's Photo Slides Builder is a good product.
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Because I prefer a higher type of control, I probably would not use this tool, but use Premiere/ After Effects to do what I want.
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Because I prefer a higher type of control, I probably would not use this tool, but use Premiere/ After Effects to do what I want.
This blog was about Photo Slides Builder vs. PhotoStory, not Photo Slides Builder vs. Premier / After Effects
.What higher type of control would you use? Is there simple version of that control that could be implemented in an easy-to-use builder?