Photo Story 3 - Motion & Duration

[Guest]

I'm new to this programme and can't work out how to apply a Motion & Duration
setting to a complete batch of imported photos without having to enter the
details for each one individually. I'm hoping I've missed something obvious!

JeremyB

 

[John Inzer]

I'm new to this programme and can't work out how to apply
a Motion & Duration setting to a complete batch of
imported photos without having to enter the details for
each one individually. I'm hoping I've missed something
obvious!

JeremyB

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There is no batch option.

Since you are new to the program...
maybe the following links will be useful:

FAQ about Photo Story 3
http://tinyurl.com/7lh96

Beginner's Guide to Photo Story
http://www.windowsphotostory.com/

Windows Movie Maker 2 - Photo Story 3
www.papajohn.org

Photo Story 3 Profile Choices
and Making a DVD
http://tinyurl.com/cahtf

Putting Photo Story 3
Stories on DVD
http://tinyurl.com/6r9ap

Create a Story from a Single
Still Photo with Photo Story 3
http://tinyurl.com/3q9tn

Share Your Stories with Photo Story 3
http://tinyurl.com/dzhhr

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Making Good Newsgroup Posts
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

 

[Guest]

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There is no batch option.

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Thanks. Is that really so? If I am creating a 250 photo slide show to
burn to DVD does this mean that I have to apply Motion & Duration settings to
each individual photo? Looking at it another way, if I decide that I don't
want to apply Motion settings to the slide show is there any way I can just
set a Transition effect and a slide duration to the complete show (batch)?

Thanks, JeremyB

 

[Guest]

Don't worry! I wrote a small application that will take a Photo Story 3
project file and let you apply global duration changes to it, which is
exactly what you're requesting. Get it here:

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/TweakPS

 

[Guest]

John,

Could you add TweakPS to your handy Photo Story url list?

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/TweakPS

I'm adding new features to it as requests come in.

--
Mark Coffman
Digital Media MVP
http://www.windowsphotostory.com

 

[John Inzer]

John,

Could you add TweakPS to your handy Photo Story url list?

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/TweakPS

I'm adding new features to it as requests come in.

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Hi Mark,

I would be happy to add it to my
collection. Thank you for providing
a very useful tool.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Making Good Newsgroup Posts
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Outstanding, Mark!

Is it possible to do something similar to set defaults for font, color,
size, transition, and transition duration...? ;-)

-michael

 

[Guest]

Outstanding, Mark!

Is it possible to do something similar to set defaults for font, color,
size, transition, and transition duration...? ;-)

-michael

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Many thanks Mark for your TweakPS application. It works well for batch
sizes of maybe 50 - 80 photos, but if I use it with a batch size of 200, when
I try to open the file I get a message - 'PhotoStory cannot open the selected
project because it is corrupted'. I've tried this several times with and
without using your app, and it seems to be a repeatable problem. Any ideas?

While calling on your assistance, are you able to advise on how I can put
more than 300 photos on a DVD? PS3 allows only up to 300 photos per project,
and if I burn that project to DVD and then try to burn another project to the
same DVD, it tell me that the DVD is not available. I assume that the burn
programme I'm using (Sonic DVD for PS3) is finalising the disc after the
first burn, but I can't find any option to leave the disc open for subsequent
recording.

Thanks, Jeremy

 

[Guest]

I will look into the 200 batch size issue. Re: Photostory only allowing 300
max photos, many people get around this by doing smaller stories, then
combining them with Movie Maker.

--
Mark Coffman
Digital Media MVP
http://www.windowsphotostory.com

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

While calling on your assistance, are you able to advise on how I can put
more than 300 photos on a DVD? PS3 allows only up to 300 photos per project,
and if I burn that project to DVD and then try to burn another project to the
same DVD, it tell me that the DVD is not available. I assume that the burn
programme I'm using (Sonic DVD for PS3) is finalising the disc after the
first burn, but I can't find any option to leave the disc open for subsequent
recording.

You are correct. The Sonic add-in is incapable of burning more than one
story to a DVD.

You will need to use another program to combine .wmv's of storys--like
Movie Maker or NeroVision Express.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."

 

[Guest]

This is EXACTLY what I wanted to!

Ken

Don't worry! I wrote a small application that will take a Photo Story 3
project file and let you apply global duration changes to it, which is
exactly what you're requesting. Get it here:

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/TweakPS

 

[Guest]

Glad it worked for you! I am working on globally changing fonts as well
using TweakPS.

--
Mark Coffman
Digital Media MVP
http://www.windowsphotostory.com