Embedding music with photo montage (tech vanity)

June 17, 2008

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I'm putting together a CD to give to each of my children as they were growing up from birth to the end of their teenage years. I've chosen the song, "You're Gonna Miss This", by Trace Adkins. I have the song saved in Real Player but when I try to add the song with the pictures it will not play.

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I'm using ArcSoft VideoImpression. I have the slide show I just need to embed the song with it. It starts with a picture of both sets of mine and hubby s GP, then our parents, and finally with hubby and I as a child. At that point it takes off on our kids.

Any help sure would be appreciated.

[rabscuttle385]

tech ping!

[raccoonradio]

if you have windows movie maker on your comp. you can do a slideshow or film clips then sync music to it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker

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I tried it with windows movie maker. The song will not embed.

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I should have said “import’.

[raccoonradio]

oh OK; do you have XP or vista? Mine had vista (...not always
successful in everything, but WMM works for me)

[stainlessbanner]

Could it be your song file is a non-supported format such as mp3, rar...

Did you look here Arcsoft FAQ/Support

[stainlessbanner]

Found the answer to my question.

VideoImpression 2will recognize only .mp3, and .wav audio files.

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I have XP.

[Soliton]

It is easy to do with powerpoint

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My songs are either on Real Player or windows media player.

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Is powerpoint a program I have to download?

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I had more success with windows media player. I’m gonna bring it back up and go from there. I’ll pull up the file.

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I got 'Whiskey do the talking' to play from my media player list but somehow that doesn't seem appropriate for the background music. lol

It looks like the Real Player songs cannot be imported.

[Soliton]

Do you have microsoft office?

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I have something named, Microsoft Plus Photo Story 2 LE

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Nero PhotoShow Deluxe (v 5.0) does a nice job of doing multi-media photoshows (photos, videos, and MP3s).

[Soliton]

Sorry, Office is a big program used for school and offisce that includes Word etc.

If you had it, you would know.

I don’t know the programs you are using.

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I have Word Perfect Office 12.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I wouldn't use any bizarre encoding formats like Real.

Stick with widely known, widely understood formats, like *.WAV [frankly, I wouldn't do anything with music unless it was *.WAV].

Also, I'd try to stick to the simplest visual formats as well, like HTML + Javascript [you can do your visuals in MSFT Powerpoint, and save them to HTML + Javascript].

Java is iffy [I don't know whether Java interpreters will be able to run 2008-ish Java stuff in another 10 or 15 years], and Shockwave/Flash is extremely iffy [it's such a new standard that I just don't know what will happen to it in another decade].

If you save all your work to some bizarre, weirdo format, then prepared for it to be obsolete in another five or ten years [as you're discovering now with Real Audio, which seemed like a very mainstream format as recently as five years ago].