Tips for making slideshows with super-smooth transitions (for Live Presentaiton)?
I am doing theatrical performance and I need a program that can read images from a folder and display them full screen on one of the computer's VGA outputs in a specified order. All you have to do is start from the first image, and when the key is pressed (spacebar, right arrow), smoothly cross the image to the next image.
Sounds the same as the right dot? The only reason I can use power-point / open-office is that the "fade" transition is not smooth enough or customizable enough. It tends to be fast and choppy, where I would like to see a completely smooth fade in, say, 30 seconds.
So the question is, what is the best (cheapest and fastest) way to achieve this? Is there a program that does this well already (for cheap or free)? OR should I try to hack the open office transition code? Or would it be easier to create this from scratch? Is there a framework that can facilitate its implementation?
I have web programming experience (php) but not desktop or realtime rendering.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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I'm using Impressive http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ for my presentations, it uses OpenGL to render transitions. Not only is the viewing of PDF presentations impressive, but the ability to display images from a folder is also impressive.
I must admit that I have never used it under windows, but I think the command will be very similar:
impressive your_folder_with_images
will give you a first impression with randomly selected transitions.
The command has several parameters to customize the presentation of the image.
impressive -l
for example, all available transition classes are listed.
impressive --transition Crossfade your_folder_with_images
is what I like to use most of the time.
Cheers
Thomas
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