Media Blog - Video Slide Show

Hey all,
I'm trying to get back to documenting things we do in the media
ministry, so for future reference any one of us can look back to.
Along with the ministry schedule, much of the documentation will go on
our ministry blog at http://calvaryaustinmedia.blogspot.com.

Or just
calvaryaustinmedia.org.

This week we have the Van Pelts doing an interview after their mission
trip in Africa. Doug gave me a whole bunch of pictures. I had a
delima for our 1st Wednesday (one small piece of out of the big pie
that's called 1st Wednesday), where I need to create a slide show
video with over 200 pictures. We've done this before, but it's been
so long since that I forgot how we did it. But I think the difficulty
this time was to render something that large and long without manually
inserting one pictures at a time. So he's what I did.

Import pictures into Google's Picasa (free software).
- Highlight all the pictures, and on the menu Create -> Movie
- Determine size and length of clip (For this week I chose 320 at 5
seconds each)
- Video Compression - Use Indeo Video, 85% compression, Key Frame
Every 15 frames, Configure Quick Compress
- Click OK and it will render the video.

It takes some time and the reason I wanted to write all this stuff
down is because it took about 6 tries to get the best compression
quality without the file corrupting. Yes, video can corrupt if too
big and bulky.

To create the DVD's, we use Sony DVD Arhitect ($50).
- Menu mode, insert rendered video and break out into chapters (Three
because we have three screens above the stage where these will
go.....so they can start at different places)
- Make sure the end action on the video is Loop.
- Trim as needed (beginning needed to be trimmed since Picasa puts an
intro on it, which I don't think is able to change)
- Burn to DVD

Now for what we'll have on the big screens while the Van Pelts are
being interviewed by Allen is simply using Picasa AGAIN as a screen
saver for the pictures on the Easy Worship Computer. This helps us
avoid rendering a movie, although we could use the one we made above,
it just something different.

I really like the Movie Picasa makes because it moves thru the
pictures. Check it out tomorrow!

Randall