[KPhotoAlbum] Creating DVD slideshow from KPhotoAlbum images w/metadata

[Robert Graf-Waczenski]

Since nobody seems to be listening to this thread, i'm replying to myself, to 
supply some more details about what i do and what i think is missing.

To create my slideshow, i'm using the "create mpeg slideshow" menu option, 
which gets me *halfway* to where i want to be: It allows me to take the 
images in my current view and create an mpeg video from them which i can then 
include in a dvd authoring session. The problem is that the video (which has 
good quality otherwise) can not be augmented with the title & description 
tags i supplied in KPA.

Another thing i tried but did not succeed with was uploading images to flickr. 
I created a yahoo/flickr account a few days ago and told KPA to upload images 
to the flickr server. This failed with the error message "invalid signature" 
(or something like this, translated the error message from german), so 
uploading to flickr doesn't work for me. Did anyone succeed using this 
feature recently?

Robert

Am Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 21:29 schrieb Robert Graf-Waczenski:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed KPhotoAlbum (SVN version installed with the most recent
> KDE 3.5.5 update on an openSuSE 10.1 box running on an AMD x86_64
> architecture) a few days ago and can only repeat what others have said:
> Congratulations! This is by far the best image storage tool i have worked
> with. I simply love the approach you have chosen for assigning locations,
> keywords etc. to images. Once i have learned to use the image property
> editing dialog, everything went smoothly. And with carefully defined
> metadata, finding a certain image or image set with certain properties
> works like a charm. But as is frequently the case, even satisfied users
> always want more, so here goes:
>
> I'm currently working on a task that i hope to get done much better with
> the aid of KPhotoAlbum. I want to create a DVD slideshow and would like to
> have the image descriptions as they are supplied in KPhotoAlbum to show up
> as subtitles or whatever on each of the image slides. And, of course, i
> would like to have only those images included that were retrieved from a
> current query such as "shot during the 2006 trip to Tuscany" As i see it,
> this can not be done from whithin KPhotoAlbum. I'm currently using other
> tools such as QDVDAuthor (good quality of the generated video file, bad UI)
> or ManDVD (intuitive UI, bad quality of generated video), both of which
> share the problem that i have to import each image and supply image titles
> and subtitles manually, which is sort of a pain if i have to do this for
> like 200 or even more images.
>
> Maybe there already is a feature that i'm overlooking? There are several
> KPhotoAlbum plugins installed but none of them seems to be fit for the
> task.
>
> Any help/guidance is muchly appreciated.
>
> Robert
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