Messing around on the weekend I remembered in the dark recesses, seeing something about converting movies to Flash. There are some good reasons for trying to do this including to minimise file size and to make the file more accessible. Photo Story also exports in Windows Movie Maker files and require the latest version of the program and the necessary codecs etc which some people might not have. A quick search and I came across a couple of possibilities including a product from the Australian SWISH company. Checking out the examples from the site however I must admit that I was a little disappointed with the quality. Maybe a straight conversion is not the way to go yet, or maybe there are better options out there amongst the other products?
On the way to check out our old house that is being demolished I remembered, hey most of the simpler transitions that are part of P/Story, (plus more if you want to work on them), can also be done directly in Flash. The pics can also be dumped into Flash as can the audio be imported. Maybe I should be doing the stories straight into Flash. (During the weekend one of my grade 3’s made a Flash animation at home with his dad which he has put up on the web so we put it up on the IWB to show off.).
