bgsnmky wrote:I know you can save the slidshow to a movie file, but then you can't break it up right?
First, what do you want to "break up"? The individual pictures in the wmv, or separate audio from video?
This probably isn't the answer you are looking for if you want a quick and easy way to break apart individual pictures. But it can be done manually.
Last summer while doing volunteer hospice duty at night I created a video on two different computers. The first (at the patient's home) had only PsEl5. (At home I have both PsEl 5 and PrEl 3.) I scanned, edited and created the slideshow with pans & zooms as well as transitions. Then exported as a wmv movie file to my 8 gb zip drive. Then carried it home to my computer and imported the wmv into PrEl 3.
The important thing was to use the same transition on each of the wmv files. This way all I had to do was add one transition between each wmv imported into PrEl.
As far as breaking apart the individual pics in PrEl, I actually did that on a different video. When I did the original wmv in PsEl I did not use transitions. When the wmv was imported to PrEl I manually broke them apart using the "split clip" command.
It wasn't hard to do, actually it was a good learning experience for me to learn to edit videos. However it was time consuming, but I was not on a deadline so I did it at my leisure.
For the majority of my business work I use the PrEl quick and easy way to create a video with selected photos and the same transition. But when I want to try new things with family videos, I love those pans and zooms. Thanks to Steve’s tip, doing the pan and zoom is much quicker, easier and has a lot more options to play around with in PsEl.