Hello again,
I am having a few problems here.
I exported a slideshow from within Imovie and embedded this in one of my web pages.
I am pretty please with the result, that is, the sharpness and color. I am a pro photographer and I work with a middle format camera and I wanted that quality to be reflected as much as possible in the slideshow. That means , I have to export in the highest possible quality, resulting in a big file ( 75 Mb) for just a few images.That is one problem( my webspace is only 200Mb) and it is quite expensive to ad extra space…
I also noticed that, in Firefox, it is not good, there is a white line above and below the slideshow?
Of coarse, there is no navigation, the slideshow auto starts, but I would like to find a way to ad that button like; start, stop pause? Adding the control in the inspector is NO option, it is so ugly, it totally destroys any layout.
Clicking on the slideshow pauses it and double clicking restarts it, so there is some control, but how to attach that to a button?
What is more troublesome is that when the slideshow ends, it simply disappears from the screen…
I know, a lot of questions, sorry…
It seems to me that Freeway pro can not really cope with this format (m4v)
If you like to see how far I got now, please visit my this link. Be advised that the images contain nudity ( they are from a Playboy casting shoot). If you are offended by nudity, please do not visit the link ! http://www.girls-on-film.be/test.html
I am also interested how it looks like with other browsers you might use.
Sometime around 7/8/10 (at 08:11 -0400) johnyw said:
I work with a middle format camera and I wanted that quality to be
reflected as much as possible in the slideshow. That means , I have
to export in the highest possible quality, resulting in a big file (
75 Mb) for just a few images.
Stop right here!
I doubt any visitor would wait long enough to see your work. That’s
far too big for smooth and quick browser access, even over a local
network.
Think about this for a second: You can never show any more quality in
an on-screen image than the screen itself can display. Most of your
visitors are unlikely to be using screens larger than around
1680x1050 or thereabouts, so - even at full screen display - each
image could safely be well under a couple of megabytes, probably even
one meg.
Your ‘slideshow’ movie is not optimised for web use. On top of this,
the QuickTime movie format is best used for actual full-motion video
or animation rather than slideshows.
There are various JavaScript methods for creating slideshow-style
displays of images. The Carousel action can also be used for this,
although it does slide or instant-cut ‘transitions’ rather than
dissolves.
But really, the thing to do first is to create actual-final-size
copies of your photos. Scale them to the actual pixel dimensions you
want to use, apply any final optimisation (sharpening, etc.)
afterwards, and use those for your slideshow source images. Not with
QuickTime or any other video format, either.
