I am using Vegas Pro 6.0. Trying to put together still pictures on the timeline with music and burn it to DVD. Is there a way to auto zoom the pictures so it creates a zoom effect when you watch the dvd. Sort of Iphoto of Mac.

Thanks

Excalibur or Ultimate S Pro might have these capabilities but you'd have to manually do it in Vegas.
It's not that hard to do though and, as long as you were doing the same effect and all images were the same aspect ratio, you could do one and then do a copy-paste event attributes to the rest.

Mike

I think that an identical zoom sequence for every picture would be boring. Click on the Pan/Crop button for each picture. Experiment a little. You'll find that you can zoom in or start zoomed in and zoom out, while panning across the picture. Different things will be most effective for different pictures. Some of them in the mix shouldn't be zoomed or panned at all. Just my opinion.

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Fred

Fred, you are correct.
Something like that would be, IMO, extremely boring.
I do quite a few slide shows and can say that most of my transitions are just basic dissolves from one picture to the next.
I'll throw in the odd special FX (don't overdo it though), zoom and pan shot.
I try to let the music and picture sequence dictate the pace and style.
For example, I personally detest wedding video intros done with a nice slow song that calls out for slooow fades only to see that the editor has images flipping & tumbling all over the place.
To me that screams "amateur".
Get a feel for what you're doing and match that feeling with your editing.
Good editing shouldn't call attention to itself.

Mike

Thanks. I will give it a try.

Here's a slide show I did last year with Sony Vegas 7.

http://vimeo.com/618171

Once you get the hand of panning and zooming it goes pretty fast and to me it seems to offer better control than some of the "Auto" zoom features on some software I've tried.




Rich

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Since you do alot of slideshows, you may want to take a look at
Anvsoft DVD Photo Slideshow They offer a trial & IMO, it's very easy to make a really great slideshow with it. It also allows you pan & zoom on images and you can either use assorted, random transitions & edit them later or you can specify you want to use a single transition on all photos.

Another cool thing is if you burn it to DVD, it allows you the option to add the images to the DVD, too. I'm in the process of using it for this purpose, since I'm in the process of doling out the photos my mother had (she downsized last year.) First, it's nice because there are not enough copies of the photos to go around to everyone. Second, we're all older & don't really want a bunch of photos to have to store, anyway! This way, we all get a bunch of photos on a single DVD & if anyone wants to get hard copies of any of them, they have the source image.

Microsoft puts out a free program called Photostory,I've never used it but I seen a friends slideshow and it looked interesting, as slide shows go.Heres a link.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...ry/default.mspx

PS - here are some slideshows I made using the Anvsoft program I mentioned above:

http://www.vimeo.com/1057605

http://www.vimeo.com/938110

http://www.vimeo.com/937834

(However, in the last example, at the "dog do" part, I did have to pull the rendered product into Sony Vegas & do some dinking around there in order to get it to match the music.)

I agree that all zooming the exact same would be boring. That's why the scripts randomly zoom in/out and pan up/down/left/right - so they're NOT all the same.

To see a sample video, go to http://www.jetdv.com/excalibur55/multicam.php and look at the "Video Scrapbook" video.

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Wow, that could be a 1956 Oldmobile Station Wagon in the picture... I have heard of them




Rich

It could well be, for all I know! All the images from that slideshow were taken from slides & (a few) photos that I found when going through some boxes we "inherited" when my mother-in-law passed away about 12 years ago. Since she'd left Montana in the early 60's I know the most recent photo in that group would have to be from the early 60's.

Thanks everyone for all the inputs. I downloaded Microsoft photostory and created the wmv file and then imported it to vegas 6.0. I deleted the blank audio and added my own audio and titles. It came out great.

Thanks again

Glad to hear this!

(Do we get to see it? (batting eyelashes))

Is there any way you can get Photostory to output something other than WMV? DV-AVI would be best. You're taking two quality hits from your original video, once when you compress to WMV and again when you compress to your final format with Vegas. You'd be better off using one of the Vegas plugins.

Good luck.

Dennis