Justinr
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France is a lovely country and I'm hoping to get to see a bit more of it this year. Your show has made that intention even stronger. It certainly brought a sense of the place to this corner of the world and I look forward to seeing some further shows.
Justin.
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A fine show, I am sure the youngsters will be very happy to see themselves in action.
If you want to improve the flow you may wish to consider placing all the portrait photos together in the middle of the Av. Use the lightbox to sort them. I note that some of the portrait photos are of different sizes, a very minor point I know, but if you want to polish it off they would fade in out better if they were all the same size.
I found the music a bit strange, I suppose I expected some diddly dee or Enya (for the Irish theme) and I have no idea if there is such a thing as horsey music ;-)
Just some feedback FYI, please feel free to dismiss it out of hand.
Many thanks for the feedback.
The photos are pretty much in the order they were taken to give some idea of the passage of the afternoon whilst the portraits were left as they were because that is how I saw the shot. I like to think that each picture is a photograph in its own right which just happens to have been brought together with others rather than the slideshow itself being the object of the exercise. The young lad eating a sandwich with the old fellow behind, for instance, makes for an interesting contrast and remarks upon the inevitability of time, well, that's the way I saw it anyway.
The music was the hardest part of this presentation. As mentioned above I wanted to move away from the clichéd idea of Ireland as being somehow merely remote and give a little idea of life outside of the romance. Then there was the pace, jaunty and light rather than a dramatic galloping heavily along, it's Handel's Flute Sonata #7 suitably edited in Audacity.
Andrew & Ken
Horses and Ireland are a bit like Austria and skiing, just as soon as you can walk you are put on the back of a nag. OK, that might be something of an exaggeration but around this neck of the woods there are plenty of kids who start riding at four or five and the pity is that the country doesn't capitalise upon it when it comes to world championships etc. Why that should be I don't know but one reason given is that a lot of the top horses bred in Ireland are sold abroad just as soon they show promise, denying our young riders the better animals to work with, but the Irish style is certainly recognised the world over, bold and impetuous is the polite way of describing it.
The girl with the green top is just five feet and a little bit tall, the grey she is riding is 17hh.It's merely a question of imposing your will upon the beast she tells us, but she has had to be reminded that the same does not apply her poor old dad. Doesn't stop her trying though!
Justin.
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Shamed to say that I've not been regular over the last couple of months so I've Just been catching up on some of the videos posted recently. Was really quite moved by the Haiti and Mississippi ones and fascinated as always by the opportunity that these slideshows give in allowing us to share something of our lives with each other.
Talking of which here is a show centred around a local pony club event. Much of the Irish imagery we see centres on the landscape but here is a view into just another Sunday as experienced by parents and children up and down the country, although Co Tipperary is especially fond of the horse.
The farm where it all took place lies in the shadow of Sarsfield Rock, site of a historic battle during the siege of Limerick in 1690.
Justin.
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Hi all,
A friend of mine whom I fly online with, after seeing my AV on the Blue Angels, asked me why I had not put together an AV on The famous Red Arrows.
I promised him I would and this AV is the result. The british members will be proud to know they have a world class and brilliant aerobatic team in the Red Arrows.
Hope you enjoy.
Colin
Some lovely photography there, I could feel the energy and drama just sat here in front of the monitor.
BTW, British members will no doubt politely remind you that they have the world class aerobatic team!
Justin.
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Justin
There some sources of free music, but generally speaking its not going to be that good is it. If it were good, it would sell and not have to be free. Pay a little and get something worthwhile for your project. Sometimes what you have to pay can be as little as $5 Australian. Hardly going to break the bank and the music is good.
Have a look here
There is a lot to be said for that. I've been casting around and a lot of the stuff that is free, is free for a very good reason as you say. My original post was based on the fear that getting involved in licensing agreements could be complicated way of signing an open cheque but this may not be the monster that I presumed after all.
Thanks for the links, I'll have a look round.
Justin.
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Thanks Lin, much appreciated.
What I'll probably do is just pick the best images and do a remix with other portraits of musicians that I have.
Justin.
I've completely rebuilt this show to bring in some other photo's that I wanted to display. Couldn't find any music to match the four genres shown so went with something that didn't clash too violently with any of them.
It can be found at the bottom of this page , the full screen download is a tad monstrous though at 70mb. I used the original source of images rather than the resized folder by mistake. Doh! Guess I'll have to redo it sometime.
Justin.
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Try here Justin http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
Yachtsman1
Many thanks for that, here's another I found although it might have been mentioned before.
Justin.
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Thanks Lin, much appreciated.
What I'll probably do is just pick the best images and do a remix with other portraits of musicians that I have.
Justin.
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I did this a few years ago just as I was getting serious about the craft. It was for a Baroque trio, lovely girls with great talent. Anyway, some of the images are a bit dud but others have stood the test of time.
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Another Youtube presentation that I really ought to put up full screen as the photo's look an awful lot better when larger.
Justin.
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Just uploaded another to Youtube with many thanks to those who responded to my questions about cropping and background music.
Justin.
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Justin
use the forum search - there have some mentioned recently but think you are going to have to pay
also
i dont think the gobblins stole google
ken
I've tried Google and indeed there was plenty around but I wondered if there were any recommendations of handy sites that gave a good range presented in a convenient manner. Word of mouth is often quicker and easier than trawling through long lists and I'd be as happy to help anyone else with a similar query if I felt I could.
I'll try the search, I did flick briefly through some past postings but didn't see anything immediate.
Justin.
p.s. I do wonder at times though whether it would be such a bad thing if the Goblins did gobble up Google, but that's another debate altogether!
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Anybody know of any good resources for free music downloads to accompany slideshows that won't infringe any copyright?
Justin.
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Justin,
I understand why the link doesn't work (at least for me).
You provided http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=khM7UWIMxmQ (3 times the character "/") instead of
Anyway, your show is in 4:3.
If you disable Pan & Scan when you publish on YouTube through PTE, I am sure it will be not be cropped.
Doh! Careless copy/pasting on my part, my apologies and thanks for pointing it out. Hope you enjoyed the show anyway, I'm planning to have another crack at loading it soon with the pan and scan disabled.
Justin.
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Hello Justin,
I couldn't watch your show because it seems the link you provided is broken.
But you can make aspect ratio slideshow different from 4:3 (like 15:10, 16:9, etc...) without images beeing cropped (top and bottom) if you disable Pan & Scan when you publish it on YouTube.
in PTE : Create > Publish on YouTube > click on the ¨Pan & Scan enabled" button and select "Pan & Scan disabled".
Hope it helps.
Many thanks for the feedback gents, I'll take another look at this one as the photography is what it is all about.
BTW, the link works for me but if not try searching for Emly, Irelands tidy town winner on Youtube. My user name is Triplemanr.
Justin
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I recently prepared this for Youtube-
But as you will see from the first slide the images were cropped dramatically both top and bottom. Is there a specific size/ratio that I should prepare the photographs to in order to prevent this?
Justin.
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Hi Justin,
You probably deleted or moved your source media and PTE is telling you it's missing.
Start a new project and everything should be OK.
Tom
Many thanks Tom, seems to have sorted it.
Justin
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I've just returned to to PTE after an absence a few years and am looking forward to getting some shows together. However, on my first attempt I'm getting the following message appear in a solid blue box on the slide which I can't get rid of -
Image not found:
Path:
What's this all about?
Justin.
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Whoops! But the sentiment still applies.