New User of xatshow Version 6.00 4021 and

[nrcems]

Mick:

Glad to have been of some help.

Yes, 5 x 4 is the normal TV screen ratio. It is also very close to the
normal digital camera ratio.

The new wide scree TV screen format which will predominate within the next
few years is 9 x 16.

I don't do much musical accompaniment and refrain from giving advice in
that area.

I don't think there is a limit other than the capacity of your CD or DVD
disk. However, I tend to break my slide shows into "chapters" so that parts
can be viewed independent of the whole set.

Your 300 slides @ 6 seconds each (plus 1 second between each) lasts a total
of 2099 seconds or 35 minutes.

I have given hundreds of lectures during my career as a scientist and would
consider this a long show which may be somewhat tedious for the viewer.

Shier

At 08:19 AM 09/02/2005, you wrote:

>Hi Shier,
> thanks for repling, I had found the auto crop but of course
>it croppes just where it is not wanted!
>
>I did as you suggested and pre croped them in Photoshop, is 5x4in the
>best size for normal TV screen?
>
>also how do you work the length of music files to match the amount of
>photos?
>I have done one with 300 photos with 6 sec viewing, and have one to
>do with 700 shots, is there a limit?
> thanks Mick.
>
>
>
>--- In xatshow@ , Shier Berman <shier@ > wrote:
> > Mick:
> >
> > Xatshow gives you the option to crop your slides to 4 x 5 in the
>SETTINGS
> > menu (lower left corner) during the entering process.
> >
> > I prefer to crop my slides using an editing program such as
>Photoshop
> > Elements or ACDSee (there are numerous programs out there that will
>do this
> > rather quickly) before entering the images into Xatshow. I keep the
>cropped
> > slides in separate folders and maintain the originals.
> >
> > When I get rich I may want to crop them to 16 x 9 format.
> >
> > Xatshow is a great program. Have fun.
> >
> > At 06:40 AM 08/02/2005, you wrote:
>
>
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[nrcems]

Chris:

You're right, of course. What was I thinking of?

I'll correct my former message.

Shier

At 12:07 PM 09/02/2005, you wrote:

> >Yes, 5 x 4 is the normal TV screen ratio.
>
>It's 4 x 3, isn't it?
>
>Chris
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[nrcems]

Mick:

I screwed up and gave you wrong information in my message this morning.

Normal TV ratio is 4 x 3, NOT 5 x 4!!

Sorry to have misled you.

Shier

At 08:19 AM 09/02/2005, you wrote:

>Hi Shier,
> thanks for repling, I had found the auto crop but of course
>it croppes just where it is not wanted!
>
>I did as you suggested and pre croped them in Photoshop, is 5x4in the
>best size for normal TV screen?
>
>also how do you work the length of music files to match the amount of
>photos?
>I have done one with 300 photos with 6 sec viewing, and have one to
>do with 700 shots, is there a limit?
> thanks Mick.
>
>
>
>--- In xatshow@ , Shier Berman <shier@ > wrote:
> > Mick:
> >
> > Xatshow gives you the option to crop your slides to 4 x 5 in the
>SETTINGS
> > menu (lower left corner) during the entering process.
> >
> > I prefer to crop my slides using an editing program such as
>Photoshop
> > Elements or ACDSee (there are numerous programs out there that will
>do this
> > rather quickly) before entering the images into Xatshow. I keep the
>cropped
> > slides in separate folders and maintain the originals.
> >
> > When I get rich I may want to crop them to 16 x 9 format.
> >
> > Xatshow is a great program. Have fun.
> >
> > At 06:40 AM 08/02/2005, you wrote:
>
>
>
>
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[nrcems]

Mick:

The ratio for 4 x 3 is 1.33

The ratio for 5 x 4 is 1.25

The difference is about 6 percent.

If you have a 20" (diagonal) TV and use 4 x 5 cropping there will be about
1/2 inch of black on each side of the images.

The larger the TV, the wider the band.

It's probably not worth the trouble to recrop those which are already cropped.

Sorry about getting you into this bit of a mess. I must be getting old.

Shier

At 03:29 PM 09/02/2005, you wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shier Berman [mailto:shier@ ]
>Sent: 09 February 2005 20:00
>To: xatshow@
>Subject: Re: [xatshow] Re: New User of xatshow Version 6.00 4021 and Music
>
>Mick:
>
>I screwed up and gave you wrong information in my message this morning.
>
>Normal TV ratio is 4 x 3, NOT 5 x 4!!
>
>Sorry to have misled you.
>
>Shier
>
>Hi again Shier,
> Thanks for that, I have cropped all 327 in the
> folder, does anyone think that they are at least in dimension all be it
> slightly larger,
>Or should I re crop them again, would like to get the show as good as
>possible.
>
>Mick.
>
>
>
>Mick Cant
>
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>Yes, 5 x 4 is the normal TV screen ratio.

It's 4 x 3, isn't it?

Chris