Help with Slideshows/Sony Vegas and DVD Architect

[DarthBrady]

Hi People. I need some advce.

I am trying to create a slideshow of pictures from my 5 megapixel digital camera, and I need some help, making one of the BEST quality for the photos and SMOOTH transition effects.

I have made one with Adobe Photoshop, and it the pictures were fuzzy, and the transitions were kinda cheap looking.

I have Sony Vegas, and started to make one with it, because it has really sweet transition effects, but I am having trouble getting the speed on them right, some of them are kinda choppy, and its hard to fix dragging with the mouse, which is the only method I know on Vegas.

MY main problem is I want to make one that can easily plug in to the DVD it will be on I am creating with DVD architect.

I know DVD architect has a picture compilation thingy, but I cant get the 2 songs to play one after another with the slideshow, it just sets them to different audio channels. Also I do not want to use this method, because apparently there is no transintion effects that can be found, which sucks.

HELP ME! I need this slideshow!

[pizzaman]

You want a slideshow of you in Vegas to work on your TV?

[DarthBrady]

You want a slideshow of you in Vegas to work on your TV?

No. Sony Vegas is Proffesional HD Video Production software. Not a city. I just want help finding an easier way to use the transition effect between pictures, and get it to render at the Best possible quality to an output type supported by Sony DVD Architect, which is Professional DVD Authoring Software.

[pizzaman]

No. Sony Vegas is Proffesional HD Video Production software. Not a city. I just want help finding an easier way to use the transition effect between pictures, and get it to render at the Best possible quality to an output type supported by Sony DVD Architect, which is Professional DVD Authoring Software.
Okay, okay. I don't get the part about DVD stuff. You want to make a slideshow on a DVD, right?

[DarthBrady]

Okay, okay. I don't get the part about DVD stuff. You want to make a slideshow on a DVD, right?

Sorry, Let me try to explain a little better for you guys.:)

DVD Architech is the software I am using to Make a DVD of stuff from my cousin's wedding.

With this software you can completely Author/Produce your own DVD's. Your own media, buttons, menus, easter eggs, anything you want. It is used by some of the Bigger Companies to produce commercialy sold DVDs.

And of of the things I want to add to the DVD, is a slideshow of some pictures from the wedding.

DVD Architect software will accep virtually any common audio/video format, So what I need Is a HIGH QUALITY slideshow of them with NICE transition effects between pictures, and the ability two play two different songs one after another with the slide show.

Adobe renders slideshows to video format, but looks crappy, I dont want to lose Image quality! I need a way to acheive this. I was hoping either someone could give me tips on how to use Sony Vegas software to do this, or recommend another software or method to do it.

Does this clear it up?

[pizzaman]

Sorry, Let me try to explain a little better for you guys.:)

DVD Architech is the software I am using to Make a DVD of stuff from my cousin's wedding.

With this software you can completely Author/Produce your own DVD's. Your own media, buttons, menus, easter eggs, anything you want. It is used by some of the Bigger Companies to produce commercialy sold DVDs.

And of of the things I want to add to the DVD, is a slideshow of some pictures from the wedding.

DVD Architect software will accep virtually any common audio/video format, So what I need Is a HIGH QUALITY slideshow of them with NICE transition effects between pictures, and the ability two play two different songs one after another with the slide show.

Adobe renders slideshows to video format, but looks crappy, I dont want to lose Image quality! I need a way to acheive this. I was hoping either someone could give me tips on how to use Sony Vegas software to do this, or recommend another software or method to do it.

Does this clear it up?
Oh nvm then. IDK how to do any of that stuff, but Iconoclast might. He is better at at sort of stuff then me, although I am the mod of the graphics forum.

[DarthBrady]

Oh, you think I should try to post there?

[Fierce Deity]

You could try to make your own effect in fireworks, or make them in flash and export as a GIF, mov ethem to fireworks an dthen make some sort of animation and put the resolution all the way up. That's the only way I can think of that doesn't get to complicated.

[DarthBrady]

You could try to make your own effect in fireworks, or make them in flash and export as a GIF, mov ethem to fireworks an dthen make some sort of animation and put the resolution all the way up. That's the only way I can think of that doesn't get to complicated.

what is fireworks, some sort of software?

[pizzaman]

what is fireworks, some sort of software?
Actually yes, although I first thought it was a city. I think it's sort of like Photoshop.

[Fierce Deity]

what is fireworks, some sort of software?
Macromedia, the people that made flash, made this program. My web teahcer said it is like the second best image editing program commercially available to non-huge companies, right under photoshop. It is easier to use fireworks with flash though, as they are made by the same companies.

I may not know much about motherboards and stuff, but I am software king. (prince at least)

[pizzaman]

Macromedia, the people that made flash, made this program. My web teahcer said it is like the second best image editing program commercially available to non-huge companies, right under photoshop. It is easier to use fireworks with flash though, as they are made by the same companies.

I may not know much about motherboards and stuff, but I am software king. (prince at least)
I guess that's somewhat of what I said before, but what's so good about it?