![]() Provide more meaning with subtle titles here and there.Your slides fit together perfectly with the new, gorgeous transitions.Scale, move, rotate, zoom or pan around your images to highlight that part that matters the most.High image quality, fast performance, and user flexibility were some of the design goals for this application. It sports a very clean and intuitive yet powerful user interface. For example, I’d like to update my Nature of Japan slideshow, and create a new Iceland slideshow, but I’m now going to try to at least make a good start on the music for these in my spare time beforehand.FotoMagico lets you create professional slideshows from your photos and music with just a few, simple mouse clicks. In the future I’m going to try to create the music for possible use well in advance of creating a slideshow, so that I can get a head start on it. I wasted another day or so on a breathy flute solo with the EWI, but it didn’t match the song, so I left it out in the end.Īll good fun, but it took way too long. I also have an AKAI EWI 5000 which is a MIDI wind instrument. I tend to get stuck in corny sounding chord sequences and waste hours trying to let go of them. Those 32 bars of piano are what I struggled with the most though. I didn’t simply Quantize it, as I wanted to keep a little bit of the natural feel to it. I could play the end piece if I practiced it more, but basically I played each 8 bar phrase first, then added the bass chords afterwards, and tweaked the position of some of the notes to make it better sounding. The piano piece was basically me playing, but I’m not good enough to just play it as is. You basically build the song up piece by piece. In Ableton you create little MIDI sequences, then you can click and select them, recording them to a timeline, and then move the sequences around and add extra instruments etc. The synth sounds were modified Ableton Live instruments, and the piano was an unmodified Grand Piano instrument. I chose the chord sequence based on but slightly different to a song that the staff at one of the lodges sang, but slowed it down from a tempo of 120 to 96, to give me a 2.5 second bar, which meant two bars would give me 5 second per slide. All of the sounds were created using a MIDI keyboard. ![]() I made the music in Ableton Live, so it’s a bit of both, i.e me playing and software. Mostly done inside their huts with just the natural light coming through the small door, and high ISO, from around 3200 to 5000 mostly. ![]() Yes, I love those Himba people shots too. This requires Apple iTunes or Quicktime to view/listen. Subscribe in iTunes for Enhanced Podcasts delivered automatically to your computer.ĭownload this Podcast in MP3 format (Audio Only).ĭownload this Podcast in Enhanced Podcast M4A format. Visit for details of my 2017 tour & workshop. Visit for details and to book your place. If you enjoy the photography and see yourself shooting in Namibia, I’m running a 17-day tour and workshop in Namibia in June 2017, and there are a few places left if you’d like to join us. I’ll do a video on using FotoMagico 5 Pro either next week or shortly after, so stay tuned for that if you are interested. You can buy FotoMagico from the Boinx Software web site or the Apple App Store. To build the slideshow I used Boinx Software’s FotoMagico 5 Pro, which has just been updated to version 5 and now fully supports 4K video, and I think this is probably the most stable new release of FotoMagico that I’ve used so far, so it was an absolute pleasure to work with. Don’t forget to click that little full-screen button either (the four little arrows pointing outwards, between HD and Vimeo below) to enjoy this in full resolution. The music still isn’t perfect, but it’ll have to do for now, as I’m out of time to work on it anymore. I got tired of fighting copyright claims for music that I have paid a license fee for, first with YouTube and now also on Vimeo, so I’m trying to create my own music when possible, but it’s time-consuming, and this one ran away with me for a few extra days.Īnyway, it’s ready now, in glorious 4K video, so grab a coffee, kick up your feet, and have a watch when you have 8 minutes to spare. This episode is a little late because I got caught up in creating the music for this slideshow. [smart_track_player url=”″ src=”” class=”mbp-ignore”> This week I share a slideshow of photographs from my first two visits to Namibia with Jeremy Woodhouse, which contains around 80 photographs and a number of short videos to depict this beautiful land and her amazing people. ![]()
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