The Home/End keys thing finally got too much. I’m way to ingrained using Home/End as a per line navigation feature instead of a per window feature. So, I looked up how to revert them in to Windows standards. This blog has a great utility that will fix Mac and Firefox. Install the utility and then run it to change the remap the key bindings like Windows.
Today, I’ll try to make a photo slideshow.
Update 9/20/2007:
I imported about 2/3rds the photos for Grandma’s Slideshow into iPhoto. The photos still reside on a share on the XP box. It worked pretty good for the most part. iPhoto has no concept of hierarchical directories and the basic metadata like Title, Comments, etc. was dropped. This last part is very disappointing. Perhaps, SMB/CIFS can’t read it. So, for the slideshow I have to work off both computers. Thank god I have 2 monitors. The file metadata is where I stored notes written on the back of the photos.
Then I fired up iDVD. It includes some pretty cool themes. You can pull in from iPhoto or drag files in from a mapped drive on a separate Finder window. This is what I did. I got caught building the first version of the slideshow and skipped adding music or fancy transitions. Dissolve works quite nicely. When I started iDVD it warned me I didn’t have a SuperDrive (DVD Burner). It’s disappointing that you can make a Video CD. For a slideshow this is more than adequate. However, I was able to plugin a no name external DVD w/o any problems. It is burning/rendering my DVD project right now.
Picking the photos is a very time consuming process. Expect to spend 1-2 hours easy. Not that the program is slow or hard to use. Picking and ordering 30 photos out of 600 takes a while. I can’t wait till the first pass is done. It will magically appear on Jessica’s mailbox tomorrow. This DVD will be very cool.
I have not used a DVD program in years. So, I’m not a good judge of this feature. iDVD worked well and was easy to use. There are probably better and worse programs for any platform you run.