

This gets pretty boring to watch after a while. But, most are limited to simply sequencing one image after the other and including a simple transition effect between then, such as a dissolve. Many of the popular DVD burning programs include such capability. There are any number of inexpensive programs for producing video slide shows. Instead of filming prints we work with our already digitized files, whether digital originals or film scans. Today the process is dramatically easier and faster. To produce a 21 minute documentary from several hundred prints took a couple of weeks.

I sat in on much of the production process. I recall that the process of shooting the prints, sequencing them, animating motions, and then getting it right was quite tedious.

This was quite a few years before the " Ken Burns" style of film making came on the scene and then became a popularized method of bringing still images, especially historical ones, to the screen. The technique that was used was to film large prints using two studio video cameras, zooming, dissolving and cutting between cameras, "live" to tape. it was the gallery’s first photographic exhibition– a rarity in the ’60s, and quite an ego trip for someone barely out of their teens.Ī producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporationattended the show and the images from it were subsequently turned into a half hour documentary film. I had been participating in and photographing "Ban-the-Bomb"marches in Montreal during a long, hot summer, and when a gallery owner saw my work I was invited to have a one man show. My first gallery exhibition was during my university days, back in the mid-’60s.
Photo to movie 3.5 software#
The only thing that’s missing is a very inexpensive and easy to use software program called Photo to Movie. These include a computer, a CD or DVD burner, a television set and a DVD player. Virtually all photographers today have all the tools needed to create remarkable videos from their existing still photographs. But unless a still photographer also has an interest in creating video content these world’s seldom intersect.įor most photographers producing video means acquiring a video camera, editing software, and the like, and then proceeding on a track either parallel to ones photography, or even one that veers off in an alternate direction. The world’s of still photography and film making (video) and are quite separate artistic activities, yet they are very close in some of their tools and techniques.
