Hi all,
I just finished my latest version of my photo slideshow. If you’d like to see it, here it is:
I used a great deal of collective wisdom and guidance from this forum to create this, so I’d like to say a huge THANKS to everyone who helped me.
I thought I’d list a few specific techniques I used in this slideshow.
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Opening zooming map: Zoom - keyframes (size and position). I made the outer edges transparent by using the Chroma Key (simple) filter. I learned how to do this from this forum some months ago.
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Opening animated text (Bournville) - I designed this by writing HTML code and using forum member Elusien’s WebVfx framework to animate it.
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Text “in photos” - created with text filter, applied to a clip on track V2 with opacity set to 0, and positioned. Fade in and out was applied using the throbber. Steve Ledger told me about the throbber in a forum post many months ago!
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Main part of the slideshow - done by importing my photos into a folder and using Elusien’s automatic “slideshow” feature wihin his WebVfx framework. Brilliant and simple to use, thanks Neil.
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Animated Captions (“Rest House On Bournville Green” etc…). These are created using a plug-in contributed to this forum by Inocynt (Piotr) in this post:
Couple of my shotcut plugins
Again, a brilliant resource. More people should be making use of this I feel (maybe I should send a post “plugging” these plugins!!) - it’s easy to set up - download the relevant files from Piotr’s github page, paste them into the shotcut filters directory and “Approach Animated Text” appears as an option in the filter list. Thanks, Piotr!
Finally, 5) background music - this is my own composition (actually a piano improvisation I just created in one take). I wanted to add gently flowing music to the slides. I played the music directly into Cubase while viewing the slideshow. I filmed me creating this music and made a tutorial video from the footage showing how I did it:
So I am grateful to lots of forum members for teaching me how to employ these techniques. And of course thanks to Dan and the developers for continuing to update and improve this amazing software!