Adding Video & photos in one project

[NickyK]

Hi

I am trying to put together a AV with both photos and video in is this possible?

If so my video was taken using my lumix camera and stupidly I used their video format AVCHD any ideas how I can change this to a format I can use on other pc.

Thanks

Nicky

PS. I am not the most IT minded person, so if you do have an answer please can you explain it, like you are talking to an idiot

[fh1805]

Pictures-to-Exe does not, at present, support video. A new version, which is expected to enter its beta testing programme very soon, will provide this capability.

regards,

Peter

[NickyK]

thanks for your prompt reply..I guess it will be just photos then...doing a talk and wanted more content so I could do less speaking!!

[Conflow]

Hi Nicky,

I hope you get this message. We at Conflow Services have 2 x Lumix FZ38 Panasonic Cameras which we use for tech purposes.

You do not mention which Lumix you have, but here goes with an answer to your problem which may not exactly fit into the

PTE scheme of things but it will give you a very Hi-quality AVI File which you can readily convert to other Video formats.

Firstly the AVC-HD Format was developed by Panasonic & Sony Corp to give a very hi-quality video stream suitable for all

HD-Television and HDMI products such as Blue-Ray DVD-Players etc. You can download your Files directly from your AVC-HD

Camera to your PC via the USB-Cable which came with the Camera.

Thereafter you need a Pc-Program which converts the AVC-HD Files into a more usable format such as AVI or MPeg2 or the new

H-262 Hi-resolution format.

One such Program is available www.softonic.com ~ its called "Format Factory" its freeware, another is "Avidemux"..

(Link)

http://format-factory.en.softonic.com/download#pathbar

I also enclose a PDF-Paper which describes all to you, plus many Screenshots & Instructions.

Best of luck with it and I hope all goes well for you.

Brian(Conflow)

Techuser-Format Factory.pdf

[NickyK]

Thank you I will try it later this week and let you know how I get on.

[Lin Evans]

Hi Nicky,

Though you can't directly drop in video clips yet into PTE, you "can" use animated gifs and if your video clips are not too long, there are a number of products which allow conversion of video to animated gif. If you can give me some details of the length of the video you need to use, perhaps I can help you determine whether this method might be feasible for your application.

The quality of a conversion is quite good, but it's not suitable for really long video. GIF's only allow 256 colors, so there won't be the same "richness" of original video, but all video content doesn't necessarily need more than 256 colors depending on the content.

Best regards,

Lin

Thank you I will try it later this week and let you know how I get on.