enable Slideshow question?

[mnray]

Does anyone know of a way to include a slide show within ots slide show?  I know that was confusing, but what I mean is that.  With the ots slide show you can download jpegs into a file and it will play when you are not running a song with a video.

What I have is a professional slide show presentation that I want to run with ots music.  Then when a video song comes on it interrupts and plays the video, like it always does.

I can't figure how to attach this produced slide show with all it's transistions from photo to photo.   Does anyone know what I can do to make this happen?

Thanks
Mike - Houston, TX  USA

[Darryl]

What format is the professionally produced slideshow in?  If it's a video that you can convert to MPEG2 you could import it and add an audio track to it in Ots Studio.

[discodonal.com]

You can block the video on both decks in ots av and your photos will run until you unblock the videos. I use a midi controller to do this but somebody I am sure will tell you how to do this with a keyboard. I am out so I cant check it at the minute.

[Jumpin' Jeff]

You'll need to convert it to a video as Darryl states if you want to keep all the transistions and such. You'll want to lay down the music track to include in the video as well, otherwise what you want can't work.

The Ots slide show uses jpegs only, with it's own transitions and timing at this time.

[Darryl]

The video block feature is only available via MIDI commands.  If you don't have a controller, a MIDI device can be simulated in software, but you'll need some programming experience (or a volunteer) to do it.

Have fun,
Darryl.

[DJ M]

The short answer I'm afraid is you can't do it. All the answers below don't really answer your question or help you achieve what you want to achieve.

Just to clarify what he wants before anyonme gets the hump. He wants to play a picture slide show while ots plays out. It's not a slide show with a music bed.

[Jumpin' Jeff]

Matt, Ots doesn't recognize tracks without audio data....

It is possible however to create your slideshow outside of Ots, have it cued and ready in the background on the proper display, and simply turn off the Ots overlay, start your presentation, and when finished, turn the overlay back on.

I used to do that all the time. Well, sort of. Before Ots offered video, I used to play video through Power DVD, and turn the milkdrop visualizer overlay on and off between videos. Same thing really. I've done it as described a couple times as well.

[DJ M]

I realise that Jeff. But what he wants to do is play out whatever playlist he has generated AND use the slideshow he has got. Not use the slideshow with the same music bed every time.

So, my short answer is as before, no you can't do it.

[Jumpin' Jeff]

But I'm saying he can!

Ots will continue to play in the background! Just turn off the Ots overlay, and play the video using an alternate player on the same display.

[Darryl]

In the original post, the request was that when the Ots playlist encountered a Video, it would stop the slide show and the video would be seen.  With your suggestion this would be possible, but only as a manual operation.

Anyhow, the OP hasn't replied, so maybe our answers are not what he's looking for or he's given up on the idea!

Have fun,
Darryl.

[Jumpin' Jeff]

I'm afraid that that is the only way at this time. It's that or nothing. Take your pick.

[Jumpin' Jeff]

I take that back...

It can be made automatic with alot of work on his part...

Remember quite some time ago, I created a script, and posted it in the control forum, that polled the playlist area with an ahk script. You could configure this to watch for a specific file/playlist entry, to triger the script to turn off the overlay, and start your slideshow. Problem is, you won't know exactly when it finishes, and this is still not the best solution, but until Ots enhances their slideshow internally, you haven't got many options.

[Darryl]

Maybe you could do this (again with lots of effort) if you monitored the play log and a had a way to determine whether the currently playing item has a video (perhaps by putting a special string in the title field for each video item).  The monitoring program could enable/disable the overlay accordingly.

Sounds like a lot of hard work though.

Have fun,
Darryl.