Slide show with voiceover?

6 Jul 2016 11:19:42

Eric Jervis

How would I produce such a thing? It would consist of a succession 30 second images of a book page with a voiceover reading the text. And burn it to a DVD of course.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

6 Jul 2016 16:24:29

Lionel Ogden

you could probably do this using garage band. Mick demonstrated this at an earlier meeting.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

6 Jul 2016 22:58:21

Eric Jervis

Thanks Lionel, I'll investigate.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 12:53:28

Derek Wright

If you have a copy of Aperture I would this :

1 Record reading the book.
2 Create images of each page or part of page,
3 Load pages into Aperture
4 Load audio into iTunes
5 Using Aperture create a slide show while listening to the reading, switching page when required to
6 Take created file of images and voice and do whatever you want with it.
To sum up I would use the voice reading the text as the driver and let the images support the voice.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 13:05:48

Eric Jervis

Thanks Derek, that looks jolly interesting. I've had a go with Lionel's suggestion, using iMovie HD and GarageBand and it sort of works, but not all that well.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 15:06:56

Derek Wright

I used this technique in the following "movie" using still pictures. The images were selected to be in the correct sequence, ie Kathleen speaks, then Ernesto speaks. I then synced the picture change to the voices using Aperture Slide show using the soundtrack held in iTunes.

https://youtu.be/T6e1WCpiSJE

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 16:01:21

Eric Jervis

VERY interesting Derek, exactly what I'm after. I think. I would need to import the pictures as jpegs or something else I can export as, from Affinity Photo.
Now to see if I can down load Aperture from somewhere!

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 19:22:09

Derek Wright

You could scan the pages however you have to consider how printed text can fit on a screen, the font has to be larger than a book, there has to be less lines on a screen and shorter lines, unless you plan to scroll the text up the screen.

What age group is the project for?
WHat is their attention span re page length and reading time.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 20:35:53

Eric Jervis

I am scanning the pages at the moment, importing them into Affinity Designer, deleting the existing text and inserting my own. Which is in Avenir Next Medium 12 on 15, aimed at age 7+, about 30 words on a busy page.

Aperture is impressive, File — play slide show — gives me about three seconds per page and each page dissolves into the next, which is not what I want.
I need at least 30 seconds per page, and no dissolving.

I can't see any means of actually building and adjusting a slide show though, nor any means of burning it to a DVD.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 21:05:50

Derek Wright

See
Aperture Manual

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkH_9oov010

the video introduces transition control

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 21:08:12

Derek Wright

and also

https://youtu.be/25qU6CR5S8c

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 21:57:23

Eric Jervis

Thanks Derek, times three, but I'm definitely going to bed by 1a.m. You can stop it dissolving by selecting none in the presets but the maximum duration of a clip is 10 seconds unless, as you suggest, I control it with 'music'.
WOW! 922 pages!!! See you tomorrow.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

7 Jul 2016 23:00:07

Derek Wright

One of the slide transition settings allows it to be set by clicking the mouse. So you can do this to suit the music or sounds.

A pity you missed my chats on Aperture at the Fareham meetings about 6 years ago <g>

I also believe that you can do a similar thing in Lightroom but I have not got that far into the product yet.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 15:50:18

Eric Jervis

I made a superb slideshow in Aperture 3 but when I burn it to disc using Toast Titanium everything is out of focus. Help!

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 15:54:07

Eric Jervis

p.s. this happens with the m4v file produced by Aperture and also with the mp4 file converted with Handbrake. In both cases Toast asked me if I wanted to convert the content from NTSC to PAL and I did. I'm going to sacrifice another DVD and see if the result is the same with an NTSC disc.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 16:33:30

Douglas Cheney

I would suggest you use a RW DVD I always did this to check everything was alright

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 16:45:04

Eric Jervis

I would if I had one Doug.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 16:59:17

Eric Jervis

They're both still rubbish but I don't think Toast is the culprit as both files are out of focus when played on the desktop.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 19:57:57

Eric Jervis

I've had a go with iSkysoft Slideshow Maker which is sort of good, but the colours are far too intense, clip duration is not adjustable, transitions are annoying, and the thing keeps zooming in and out. All this is possibly because its a free trial version, so I've emailed them.

Re: Slide show with voiceover?

8 Jul 2016 23:16:37

Eric Jervis

Just tried PhotoStage; really easy and quick to use, plus it will burn a DVD, which unfortunately is rubbish. Tried again on the desktop with the m4v file produced by Aperture and then the mp4 handbraked version; both are superior to all the other junk I've produced today, with the mp4 having the edge. Perhaps I've been over critical, perhaps Toast messes them up a bit, perhaps I'll muck about with Af Des and double the size of the page and of the typeface. Yawn.....