Slideshow and the spinning wheel.

[grampus]

Found this when I was looking around to try and make a movie presentation of my pics.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD-slideshow-GUI
Not sure its been mentioned before, but FWIW.

I was tired of the spinning wheel while loading, this seems to be a fairly easy to use converter, takes the pics and I created an .mpg.

I had about 320 pics that I wanted to present.
I had to cut the number down, due to some memory restrictions.
The total size of the pics was around 400MB
I cut it down to 3 different mpg's each with about 100 Pics.

Each mpg ended up about 400 MB.
There are a lot of options available. But I used it in a vanilla flavor with no changes, just exported the slideshow directly to a USB stick to play from the Wiz.

[grl]

If you want to go this route then Windows Movie Maker also does this. I am sure there are plenty of other 3rd party apps that do this too.

[grampus]

If you want to go this route then Windows Movie Maker also does this. I am sure there are plenty of other 3rd party apps that do this too.

Tried WMM from Win7 home premium, but it seems that it only outputs in WMV9 format, which the BW doesn't want to display.
Maybe I missed something.

[grl]

I must admit I had not actually tried the result on the beyonwiz. We had a presentation prepared for a funeral on WIndows 7 Ultimate, so I just tried that out and it worked OK.

General
Complete name : V:\Misc\work\jeannemovie.wmv
Format : Windows Media
File size : 712 MiB
Duration : 25mn 12s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 3 950 Kbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 5 738 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-12-15 11:05:52.605

Video
ID : 2
Format : VC-1
Format profile : MP@ML
Codec ID : WMV3
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Video 9
Codec ID/Hint : WMV3
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9 - Professional
Duration : 25mn 12s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 5 500 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.597
Stream size : 991 MiB
Language : English (US)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : WMA
Format version : Version 2
Codec ID : 161
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio
Description of the codec : Windows Media Audio 9.2 - 192 kbps, 48 kHz, stereo (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Duration : 25mn 12s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 34.6 MiB (5%)
Language : English (US)

[raymondjpg]

If you want to go this route then Windows Movie Maker also does this. I am sure there are plenty of other 3rd party apps that do this too.

Tried WMM from Win7 home premium, but it seems that it only outputs in WMV9 format, which the BW doesn't want to display.
Maybe I missed something.

There is a body of opinion that WMM in Windows 7 is inferior to what was on offer in Win XP.

Google around for WMM 2.6 and try installing that. It may do what you want. It works OK in Win 7.