Encore CS3 Help Photo Gallery

[John Rich]

What I’d consider, since you are only doing a slide show is using ProShow Gold instead of Encore.

You could try a free trial. They also have tutorials, and sort of “Presets” which are interesting, but I don’t think there are trials of the presets or tuts.

John Rich

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[Andy Ireland]

Thanks for the response John.

Could I not just as easily do that in Premiere Pro?

With that I would surely have more control?

What are your experiences with this?

Thanks again,

Andy

[John Rich]

Andy,

I’ve never used Premiere for this. When you said picture gallery, I assumed you meant a slide show type thing. Since you have hundreds of images, it just seemed a lot of work to set it up in Premiere. While you can set a single transition for each one in Premiere, in ProSho, you can set random transitions and it also has a variety of more elaberate transitions. You then generate the DVD directly in ProSho. You can set the sound track to directly reflect the length of the slideshow ie set a slide / second automatically.
(Sorry to ramble and I don’t have any connection to Proshow, I just like it for slide shows).

If you wanted to use an Adobe Product, I’d consider After Effects per this tutorial https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/elegant_slideshows/
John Rich

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[Andy Ireland]

Thanks again for the response John.

I think for chaptering purposes, I am going to do it in Premiere – creating different timelines for each product shouldn’t be too daunting I hope!!

After Effects would be a brilliant method, but a lot more time consuming I imagine.

Cheers.

Andy