RE: [Leica] Slide show software

["Rodgers, David" <david.rodgers@xo.com>]

Jim,

I just put together a presentation using a new In-focus digital projector. I
added a sound track and native motion to some of the images. The output was
impressive. I'm not yet ready to sell my Ektagraphic or Kinderman (MF)
projectors. But I'll be using them less and less. Every medium has it's
strengths. You're right about digital being repeatable. It takes more work
on the front end. But once it's done, you can present it a hundred times
across various mediums. It's like the Energizer bunny.   

Dave

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Laurel [mailto:jplaurel@nwlink.com]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:19 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Slide show software


Hi Dave,
Well yes and no.  Yes, in the sense that it current projector technology
(within a reasonable price range) limits absolute resolution.  No, when you
consider that there are alot of factors that affect the quality of a slide
show which are difficult to control.

1) You don't want to show your originals due to fading, and duplicates are
just never as good.
2) Slides get dirty, so you're always chasing lint, dust, and the like.
3) It's very difficult to get perfect focus across the entire film plane, as
film is never flat.
4) There is no opportunity to perform color corrections and other
enhancements

A digital slide show is totally repeatable.  You can photoshop the images to
your satisfaction, digital images never accumulate dust, and the LCD display
being projected is always flat, so focus is never a problem.  And, you can
repurpose your slide show for deployment on CD-ROM, or on a website.

Last year, at the Santa Fe Workshops, I saw a presentation by one of the
instructors who specializes in landscape photography.  His projector was a
garden-variety Epson with 1024x768 resolution.  His presentation slotted
right in between others using conventional projectors, and yet everyone was
amazed at the image quality.  David Alan Harvey showed a video on that same
projector (produced by one of his sons), of him photographing in Cuba.  The
video had a great soundtrack, with voice over by David, shots of him
working, and loads of his stills.  The effect was really great, even though
it was just plain NTSC video.

After more research, it looks like PowerPoint is going to work out for
simple slide show.  I spent the better part of this evening on some specific
tests.  The latest version has a 'background' audio feature, then you can
overlay specific sounds that get played for particular slides.  I'm trying
to figure out if Final Cut Pro might do the job as well.  The idea would be
to basically create a High Def non-interlaced video.  I think you could get
quite good quality that way.

- --Jim

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hillman" <dave@hillmanimages.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; "Jim Laurel" <jplaurel@nwlink.com>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Slide show software


> Jim,
>
> Aren't the advantages you have correctly described acheived at the expense
of
> image quality?  Most digital projectors are limited to 1024 x 768 which is
> much less than should be achievable with projectors and slides.  It would
be
> like like viewing on a high quality TV set.  Good enough for many
purposes,
> but I would think a poor substitute compared to original slides and an
> auto-focus slide projector.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Friday 28 September 2001 05:34 pm, Jim Laurel wrote:
> > Greetings fellow LUGgers,
> > For those of you doing your slide shows digitally, what slide show
software
> > are you using?  Using a laptop and a digital projector, you should be
able
> > to do what it takes a whole rack of film projectors, plus an array of
> > controllers, etc.  If you want to show video clips and QTVR surrounds
along
> > with your scanned Leica stuff, digital is the only way to create a
complete
> > seamless presentation.
> >
> > Powerpoint comes to mind right away, but it doesn't allow you to use a
> > sound track that is synchornized to the image being displayed.
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas on the best way to do this.
> >
> > --Jim Laurel
> >
> >
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