Image viewer with slideshow animation mode to animate the presentation of the pictures, but not the

[EDEB]

Can anybody tell me if there is a freeware image viewer which does what the
Micro$oft media center application has an option to do, viz to animate the
slideshows. NB i'm not talking about animated transitions (fades in and out
/ dissolves etc...) but the images themselves. Media center allows you to
display the pictures in a folder and it zooms in or out of them gradually
and automatically.

EDEB.

PS I thought that the FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER would do this, but apparently
it doesn't, and nor does IRFAN VIEW.

 

[CoMa]

Media center allows you to display the pictures in a folder
and it zooms in or out of them gradually and automatically.

it is called "Ken Burns effects"



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[thoss]

Can anybody tell me if there is a freeware image viewer which does what the
Micro$oft media center application has an option to do, viz to animate the
slideshows. NB i'm not talking about animated transitions (fades in and out
/ dissolves etc...) but the images themselves. Media center allows you to
display the pictures in a folder and it zooms in or out of them gradually
and automatically.

Have a look at MS Photo Story.

 

[aafuss]

Babya Presenter 3:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039029

 

[EDEB]

it is called "Ken Burns effects"

Thanks - that's interesting and helpful. I looked this up on Wikipedia,
which gave me:
Ken Burns Effect:

In his documentaries, Burns often gives life to still photographs by slowly
zooming-in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another.
For example, in a photograph of a baseball team, he might slowly pan across
the faces of the players and come to a rest on the player the narrator is
discussing. This has been called the Ken Burns Effect.

The effect can be used as a transition between clips as well. For example,
to segue from one person in the story to another, he might open a clip with
a close-up of one person in a photo, then zoom out so that another person in
the photo becomes visible.

This technique came to be known as the Ken Burns Effect, even though he did
not originate the technique, and has become a staple of documentaries, slide
shows, presentations, and even screen savers. In film editing, non-linear
editing systems such as iMovie and iPhoto (from Apple Computer) often
include an effect or transition called Ken Burns Effect, with which a still
image may be incorporated into a film using this kind of slow pan and zoom.
It is also seen in screensavers that slowly pan and zoom through a slide
show of digital photographs on a computer's hard disk.

 

[nobody]

Can anybody tell me if there is a freeware image viewer which does what the
Micro$oft media center application has an option to do, viz to animate the
slideshows. NB i'm not talking about animated transitions (fades in and out
/ dissolves etc...) but the images themselves. Media center allows you to
display the pictures in a folder and it zooms in or out of them gradually
and automatically.

Here's some good info - somewhat OT,though ;-)
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10787

 

[Sietse Fliege]

EDEB wrote:

It is also seen in screensavers that slowly pan and zoom through a
slide show of digital photographs on a computer's hard disk.

It is seen in e.g. the Apple OS X slideshow screensaver.

There are two Windows clones:

Nostalgic http://www.greggman.com/nostalgic/
MotionPicture http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~gstitt/motionpicture/

MotionPicture is more configurable and it also lets you listen to music.

Note (for both these screensavers): you can have more than one folder.
BUT: for that you must point it to a folder in which you have shotcuts
to the target folders.