The videos of my life can be seen
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Below is the excerpt from my diary setting out
how I learnt how to use the slide & video software. The software used was
MS Slide Program that I downloaded free from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx and MS Windows Movie Maker that I had pre-installed when I
bought this computer. I used the slide prog to marshal and name the picture
files.
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Saturday, 30 April 2005. See my first attempt at a slide show here
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Monday, 02 May 2005. Well
. I really got stuck in to learn this slide/video
system, and its not too bad. The selection of pictures could have been
better, but never mind. The main problem was getting the pictures to load in
the correct order. I solved it by renaming them in numerical order quite a
task. The Windows Media File is only 10meg, for about 12 mins of video. All
in all, it has taken me about three hours from start to finish, including the
learning. Later I may have a go at pre-planning a project, and be a bit more
professional. The quality is good enough to run it at 2X size. (Posted later tried it at full screen and looks
OK) (Now superseded see below)
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005. Still aiming at improving the slide show. It is now
about 22meg, and the picture & sound quality is excellent, even at full
screen. Also I have improved a photo. BTW have your sound on, because there
is a commentary! See here. Oh,
hell! Just found that I put March instead of May when I did the last update
of the home page. Hope it did not put you off! Told you
Im getting old!
Later
. Done a version for dial-up. Just about
acceptable at 2X! At 1.8 meg it is VERY small. See here.
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Wednesday, 04 May 2005. Now optimised the dial-up at 5 meg. Most acceptable. See here. (Later buffering too slow! Reverted to 1.8 meg.
But left this one as an example.
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