I have a friend with an iPhoto slideshow (with music) who wants to convert it to a Power Point Presentation type slideshow he can email. Any ideas?
An iPhoto slideshow, with individual photos, can only be run inside iPhoto. If you export it, it is converted into a QuickTime video. So there are no individual images anymore. That's why you can't convert it into a PP file, because PP files use individual images, text, and sound embedded in the PDF framework.
So the short answer is: no, it can't be done, because they are different beasts.
But there's another reason why he can probably not send a slideshow ? actually a QuickTime movie of the slideshow ? to you using email: SIZE! Email can handle no bigger than 15MB attachments. A QuickTime movie file of a slideshow will most probably exceed 15MB! So via email is out! What then? Simple really, you use one of the FREE Large File Transfer services:
? Podmailing.com is FREE and allows transfer of unlimited numbers of files of unlimited size. I've transferred upto 6GB files without a hitch. Temporarily out of order, but worth keeping an eye on.
Want to post a very large file, or a whole batch of big files, to a forum like this one? Send that file/those files (zipped, to keep 'm together, and the package smallest) to your own email address using one of the above LFT services, check your mail (also your spambox!), open the message, copy the link that's in it, and paste/post that link in a message like this one in your forum. Tada!
Here's a demo. A zipped folder with 67 desktop pix, 51,1MB. Would never fit through your ISP's email pipe:
OTOH: if your friend and you both use FREE TeamViewer (http://www.teamviewer.com/), then you can see that slideshow while looking directly at his desktop! Tada!
But there's another reason why he can probably not send a slideshow ? actually a QuickTime movie of the slideshow ? to you using email: SIZE! Email can handle no bigger than 15MB attachments. A QuickTime movie file of a slideshow will most probably exceed 15MB!
Zoiks Scooby! Sounds like he may need to think about Power Point. I had emailed him a cool PP slideshow of great rock formations that was about 5.7MB and he wanted to do the same idea with a slideshow he had created with iPhoto. I'm assuming the friend he wants to send it to doesn't have a Mac. Thanks for the info.
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I have a friend with an iPhoto slideshow (with music) who wants to convert it to a Power Point Presentation type slideshow he can email. Any ideas?
An iPhoto slideshow, with individual photos, can only be run inside iPhoto. If you export it, it is converted into a QuickTime video. So there are no individual images anymore. That's why you can't convert it into a PP file, because PP files use individual images, text, and sound embedded in the PDF framework.
So the short answer is: no, it can't be done, because they are different beasts.
But there's another reason why he can probably not send a slideshow ? actually a QuickTime movie of the slideshow ? to you using email: SIZE! Email can handle no bigger than 15MB attachments. A QuickTime movie file of a slideshow will most probably exceed 15MB! So via email is out! What then? Simple really, you use one of the FREE Large File Transfer services:
? Podmailing.com is FREE and allows transfer of unlimited numbers of files of unlimited size. I've transferred upto 6GB files without a hitch. Temporarily out of order, but worth keeping an eye on.
http://www.podmailing.com/
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Want to post a very large file, or a whole batch of big files, to a forum like this one? Send that file/those files (zipped, to keep 'm together, and the package smallest) to your own email address using one of the above LFT services, check your mail (also your spambox!), open the message, copy the link that's in it, and paste/post that link in a message like this one in your forum. Tada!
Here's a demo. A zipped folder with 67 desktop pix, 51,1MB. Would never fit through your ISP's email pipe:
available for 7 Days or 100 downloads.
http://www.yousendit.com/download/Tz...RkVCTWtLSkE9PQ
This is how you send high-res photos or movies of the new baby to the proud new grandparents on the other side of the country. Or the world.
But there's another reason why he can probably not send a slideshow ? actually a QuickTime movie of the slideshow ? to you using email: SIZE! Email can handle no bigger than 15MB attachments. A QuickTime movie file of a slideshow will most probably exceed 15MB!
Zoiks Scooby! Sounds like he may need to think about Power Point. I had emailed him a cool PP slideshow of great rock formations that was about 5.7MB and he wanted to do the same idea with a slideshow he had created with iPhoto. I'm assuming the friend he wants to send it to doesn't have a Mac. Thanks for the info.
Sounds like he may need to think about Power Point.
No: using a Large File Transfer service or TeamViewer is a whoooole lot easier, quicker, and cheaper!