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Author Topic: Projecting a JPG pic file thru a video projector Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-08-2010 08:49 PM                        Problem -- I am handed a .JPG file and told they want to RP screen project it during a show. I need to get that file into a format that the video projector likes. First thing I though of was just puting it in PowerPoint and feed that to the projector via VGA from a laptop. BUT, if I can avoid having to have a stage hand dealing with a computer during a show, I think I would feel better about it. I am thinking just burn it to a DVD and be done with it. DVD player is lower tech than dealing with a laptop. Thing is, what's the best way to convert that file to a video that can be burned to a DVD for playback? I need this thing to play on the screen for max, 15min. This is for a memorial to Rex Nettelford, founder and director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica when they do their concert here in March. His picture will be revealed for the last curtain call. It just a simple projection, but obviously for such a solemn moment, it CANNOT get screwed up. The idea of a stagehand needing to load PowerPoint or in anyway futzing with a laptop is too fraught with danger.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-08-2010 09:50 PM                     That's easily done in with most editing software. Make a slide show out of it and add that to a movie file. Nero sometimes does not like doing that though for some odd reason so you may need to paste the slideshow file in a few times to get the duration you're looking for. FWFW, I use Nero 9.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 02-09-2010 03:57 AM                     ...or go low-tech. Shoot a screen cap onto transparency and drop it into a carousel. I know this wont use the video projector as the output device, but at the very least it will be a perfect failsafe backup.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 02-09-2010 07:30 AM                     Does anyone still make slides? Can they be made from digital camera files, or even JPG files?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-09-2010 07:42 AM                        http://www.slides.com/ I am not affiliated with them, but have used the service and been happy with the results. Some camera stores and photo labs offer this service as well.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 02-09-2010 07:59 AM                     Wow, thanks Scott.  |  IP: Logged Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 02-09-2010 09:39 AM                     Frank - After reading your inquiry, I went to one of my random pictures. I highlighted it's file name, and at the top of the screen there is a selection that says "Burn". Clicking on that says "Burn to Disc", and opens the tray for a blank. This is in a computer with Windows 7. I should think that will work. DM  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 02-09-2010 11:18 AM                     It would depend on the DVD player; many will play a disk that simply has some picture files on it, but some, especially older ones, will not. It's not part of the DVD spec to be able to do so. My early Toshiba, which finally packed up recently certainly wouldn't, but then it wouldn't do many things that later models would. If it will play; there's also no way to predict exactly what it will do; it might play the same picture continuously, or play the last (only) picture for a few seconds and then go to a blank screen, or a system menu (one from the machine, not the disc). Give it a try, it would be the quickest way to do it if it works, but leave time to do it another way if it doesn't. You wouldn't be able to do this if you were sending the disc to somebody with an unknown player, but since you can test it on the machine that will be used then if it works fine. It's proably worth testing in on two players, just in case one fails just before the show.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-09-2010 04:03 PM                        What kind of projector are you using? What does it have for inputs?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-09-2010 11:16 PM                        Thanks for the feedback guys. I am going to try buring the jpg file directly to the DVD and see if that works. If the video gods are smiling on me and the projector works, then I'll be lucky. If not I'll just have to make a video if it. Sean, it's a Sharp XG-NV6XU and it has VGA Computer RGB, Component R/G/B/Sync/VD, Component P(r)/Y/P(b), RS232C, S-Video and C-Video.  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 02-11-2010 01:02 AM                        slide makers in perth WA Churchill Colour Laboratories 288 Railway Pde, West Leederville, WA, 6007 I created Jpg stills for video in a simple movie maker program , designed the pic then added it to the time line for the desired length on movie timeline then created MPG file of the still load onto server and bingo done.  |  IP: Logged Jean-Marc Toussaint Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Paris, France Registered: May 2008 posted 02-12-2010 11:13 AM                        Scott N: wow, thanks for the link. Having several slides printed by this company and shipped via Fedex from the US is actually cheaper than having one single slide made over here...  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-12-2010 04:46 PM                     Note: if you are using a laptop computer to feed the projector, make sure that you turn off all the sleep modes, and the screen saver. You do not want the computer going to sleep, or the screen saver poping up at the wrong time.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-14-2010 08:27 PM                        HAHA...thanks Bruce -- yah, been burned with that once already. OR, I could use the Slide Show screen saver and only have that .jpg image in it.....hehe. I love thwarting smart-ass computers.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 03-01-2010 07:00 AM                     If the projector has a freeze function it may be worth using this once the image is stable on screen. If making a video DVD make the recording far longer than you could possibly need. Relying on the pause button on the DVD player is dangerous as a lot of DVD players unpause after some time.  |  IP: Logged

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