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Picasa pic titles incorporated in Vegas
Hello again,
Trying to develop a 600+ photo (.jpg still picture) video in Vegas. The pictures were created by PICASA, with some of them having descriptive titles (captions) below them (when viewed in a PICASA slide show).
Is there a Vegas “magic” to incorporate these captions as overlays or similar, in the Vegas video production of these slides?
Thank you
John -
4 Replies
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The Picasa slide show is done in Flash I believe and the titles are text below the pictures in the actual album. You can copy and paste the items to a text document and you may be able to find a script that will allow for the text to be placed at each new event such as with comma delimited files (check the sony creative software script forum).
Outside of that, you can copy and paste them into a text generated media (one for each event on the timeline).
j razz
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maybe you can prepare a movie file in Picasa, which is WMV video that Vegas can read for later editing and effects… you can make the movie with “dummy” pictures (solid colors) and your titles, and then arrange the photos in Vegas ….. just ideas ….
Good luck
Enrique Orozco R.
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Thank you both, Jeremy and Enrique. You have some very clever ideas. Unfortunately it will be too much work (and guesswork) and since this series of captions was done by somebody else, (and it involves a goodly portion of 1600+ photos,) I simply can’t take the time to resolve it. I was hoping for some “magic” but I guess there is not. Many thanks again for your replies, and helpful suggestions.
JohnJohn23GR
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Here’s one way, If the owner of the Picasa web album has not blocked you from downloading the photos there should be a download tab at the top when you open the album.
You also must have Picasa installed on your computer. Choose download to Picasa. The whole album will be downloaded to picasa on your computer including the captions.
Select the album in Picasa on your computer and choose create a movie presentation. The settings will allow you to create a .wmv slideshow of the photos with transitions and motion as well as the captions. If needed, choose the slide tab and click on each photo at the bottom to change the caption font, color, size, etc. You can even add music. This may satisfy your needs but you can also import the .wmv file into Vegas to edit it as desired. By the way, the .wmv file is saved to the Picasa folder in the My Documents/My Pictures folder.
Hope this helps.
Jim
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