Thanks for the critique about transitions. I feel like the transitions in a slide show are similar to very tight editing in a movie. I read some years back where one movie was criticized because there were too many cuts, so it was obvious it was made for TV. An actual movie theatre release wouldn't have that many.
Your opinion reminds me of that Mexican movie, can't think of the title but it was done literally on a shoestring. The producers mother prepared the meals for the cast. This movie had extremely tight editing, when I first saw some scenes, my first reaction was Wow. But then after seeins several more scenes, I was waiting to see how the next edit would turn out. The movie won several awards, and it certainly was innovative, but now I don't know that it was that great.
Then too, your statement reminds me in that scene in Star Wars where they were fighting off the Tie fighters and Han Solo tells Luke "don't get cocky" and you know it was a difficult edit to do smoothly. That is, the viewers attention is on the edit rather than the scene.
I don't want my slide shows to be like that, but with very common pictures such as these, it very well could end up very boring without more transitions. There has to be a good middle somewhere here, all I have to do is to find it
Oh I feel some of the PSG transitions are absolutely horrible. Most of them with "2" really interfere with the picture that you want to see. The heart is a wonderful exception and is how I end all my shows. But a lot of the other transitions are just not attractive at all. I wish there were other transitions on the web that we could download for PSG.
Well you have certainly given me something to think about. Can you (and others too) give us beginners some guidelines about using transitions? I like the fact that PSG has the automatic insert random transitions in a new show, then I usually go in and change the more unpleasant ones. I have read that possibly start with only 4 different transitions. But where would you put them? Probably have the ab fade, then if I use 4 more then how far apart would they go? That is, how do I do this so attention won't be drawn to the transitions rather than the pictures.
Jane