software to set pictures to music

Hi,

I have a bunch of digital photos I'd like to set to music so that the photos 
transition in time to the rhythm of the music.

I've tried doing it manually with video editing software and it's very 
painstaking, but it seems to me this is the kind of thing that could be done 
automatically using similar logic to those irritating "visualisations" that 
seem to be de rigeur on all music playing software.

It wouldn't have to be real-time. I'm actually looking to make DVDs out of 
it. Needs to be PC though, not mac/linux.

TIA for any suggestions

Andy

Hi Andy,

my first thoughts to solve that problem would be to generate some
transition signal for the pictures from the sound files, i.e. to
extract the "rhythm of the music". You have to ask yourself how to
define that. With electronic music it basically comes down to a
bpm-counter-problem, which shouldn't be too hard to solve, I would
assume a relatively basic time domain algorithm, possibly just a peak
search, being successful. With other music, you'd need to extract e.g.
the drummer's sound, which is somehow more difficult, incorporating
some kind of filter for example.

But haven't done that. Just some ideas.
Good luck, and give some feedback some time.

stereo


Andy Fish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bunch of digital photos I'd like to set to music so that the photos
> transition in time to the rhythm of the music.
>
> I've tried doing it manually with video editing software and it's very
> painstaking, but it seems to me this is the kind of thing that could be done
> automatically using similar logic to those irritating "visualisations" that
> seem to be de rigeur on all music playing software.
>
> It wouldn't have to be real-time. I'm actually looking to make DVDs out of
> it. Needs to be PC though, not mac/linux.
> 
> TIA for any suggestions
> 
> Andy

Thanks for the hints

I'd be surprised if there wasn't already some kind of library already
available to do this though (or even an off-the-shelf application to do
exactly what I want)

Andy


stereo wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> my first thoughts to solve that problem would be to generate some
> transition signal for the pictures from the sound files, i.e. to
> extract the "rhythm of the music". You have to ask yourself how to
> define that. With electronic music it basically comes down to a
> bpm-counter-problem, which shouldn't be too hard to solve, I would
> assume a relatively basic time domain algorithm, possibly just a peak
> search, being successful. With other music, you'd need to extract e.g.
> the drummer's sound, which is somehow more difficult, incorporating
> some kind of filter for example.
>
> But haven't done that. Just some ideas.
> Good luck, and give some feedback some time.
>
> stereo
>
>
> Andy Fish wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a bunch of digital photos I'd like to set to music so that the photos
> > transition in time to the rhythm of the music.
> >
> > I've tried doing it manually with video editing software and it's very
> > painstaking, but it seems to me this is the kind of thing that could be done
> > automatically using similar logic to those irritating "visualisations" that
> > seem to be de rigeur on all music playing software.
> >
> > It wouldn't have to be real-time. I'm actually looking to make DVDs out of
> > it. Needs to be PC though, not mac/linux.
> > 
> > TIA for any suggestions
> > 
> > Andy