Photostory Easy 2 Image Transitions

dave-jordan wrote on 11/13/2017, 11:17 AM

I'm trying to put together a short slide show using Photostory Easy 2. I've just purchased the product and downloaded the latest updates.

I have problems setting the display duration for the images. In most cases, the software forces the image duration to end in ":29" seconds - I think that means 29 / 100s of a second. I can't set the image duration to 4.0 seconds or 3.5 seconds - just won't do it.

But, in a few cases (I don't know why) the software forces the image duration to end in ":00". And I can't set these to end in ":29" like the other images. All of this is mostly just annoying except...it seems to screw up image to image transitions. I would like to do a simple fade for all of the transitions. And this seems to work for the images whose timing ends in ":29". But, for images whose timing ends in ":00" (which I can't change...), I get a brief black screen between images. So instead fading directly from the first image to the second it fades from the first image to black...and then snaps to the second image.

I don't think this has much to do with my specific configuration, but I'm running "Magic Photostory easy", version 2.0.1.54 (UDPP3). I'm running Windows 10 64 bit (Windows NT 6.2.9200.0) on an Intel i5-3570k processor with 32 GB of memory, a GTX 750 Ti graphics card, and a variety of disk storage.

Thanks for any suggestions

Dave

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johnebaker wrote on 11/13/2017, 11:31 AM

Hi

. . . . In most cases, the software forces the image duration to end in ":29" seconds - I think that means 29 / 100s of a second. I can't set the image duration to 4.0 seconds or 3.5 seconds - just won't do it. . . .

The dialog is in units of minutes:seconds:frames - in this case the :29 means 29 frames, if your frame rate is 30 frames per second the it means 29/30 of a second.

I do not have Photostory Easy installed, however the dialog box should be the same as Photostory Deluxe as shown below

To enter 4 secs enter 400 from the number keypad or number keys.

For fractions of a second you need to know the framerate setting of your project. Eg if the project is 30 fps then for 3.5 seconds enter 315 ie 3 secs and 15 frames.

Note if your are in a PAL region at 25 fps then you have to go to the nearest frame under or over eg for 3.5 secs you would enter 312 or 313.

HTH

John EB

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dave-jordan wrote on 11/13/2017, 11:48 AM
I do not have Photostory Easy installed, however the dialog box should be the same as Photostory Deluxe as shown below

To enter 4 secs enter 400 from the number keypad or number keys.

For fractions of a second you need to know the framerate setting of your project. Eg if the project is 30 fps then for 3.5 seconds enter 315 ie 3 secs and 15 frames.

Note if your are in a PAL region at 25 fps then you have to go to the nearest frame under or over eg for 3.5 secs you would enter 312 or 313.

HTH

John EB

Hi John - yes, that helps some ... now I know that those last two digits are a frame count.

I don't know how to determine what fps the program is using, though seeing the ":29" leads me to believe that it using 30 frames per second.

Maybe it's using some sort of obscure frame rate? When loading images, it seems to default to x:00, x-1:29, x-1:29, x:00, ... (ie., 7:00 - 6:29 - 6:29 - 7:00 - 6:29 - 6:29 - ...) Without really figuring it out, maybe it thinks the frame rate is 29.67? Or something like that? Or maybe they just get floating point rounding errors!

I've poked around in the programs menus without finding any hint of what it thinks the frame rate is. My NVIDIA control panel indicates that my graphics card is running 1920x1080 (native) at 60 Hz.

All in all, it doesn't seem "easy" at all!

Dave