Posted by Larry Roche on April 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM
I need a recommendation for a program that will allow me to send out slide shows complete with music and captions by e-mail. I do have Light Room 2 and I can't get it to work for e-mail slide shows.
thanks for the help,
Larry Roche
We've used iPhoto, with the slideshow saved to a Quicktime file when we need to include music. Not perfect, but it's easy as pie. Just make sure the recipient has enough email buffer to receive it, plus a fast enough connection that they don't spend forever and a day downloading it. Not a good way to make friends and influence enemies if you completely clog their system with your email.
Hank's idea is a good one. To reduce the file size, use a program (WinZip) that will create a *.zip archive. The compressed file will download more quickly. Do not make it a self-extracting zip file. Most e-mail apps will block *.exe files. If you do use a *zip file, the recipient will need a way to unzip the file.
Another way to greatly reduce fie size is to not include music. However, if the music is critical, then you will need the bigger file.
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Posted by Kelly Rowe on April 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM
animoto.com. build it on the animoto site and email your client a link. you tube works well for this too.
Powerpoint is what you are looking for - it creates a self-running presentation, a pps file, complete with music. Using winzip is no guarantee against a spam or virus blocker, since many are tuned to block zip and rar files as well, nor will they reduce the size of a jpg, which is already highly compressed. All this means is that you have to create smaller sized files. depending on what you have, you should be able to reduce the file to 8x12 @ 72 dpi and 70% quality and have files that are less than 150kb in size. If you have Photoshop, you can use the option to "save for web" which removes all unused color information and yields file sizes that are even smaller. PowerPoint is a complete and perfect solution to do what you are trying to do. Bear in mind that many email servers also block emails larger than 10 mb, but quite a few permit a single email of up to 20 mb. There are other ways of sending large emails such as the ones offered at www.yousendit.com and www.transferbigfiles.com - both of which offer free options.
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7 repliesthanks for the help,
Larry Roche
Another way to greatly reduce fie size is to not include music. However, if the music is critical, then you will need the bigger file.
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