If you’re a Queensberry client, you’re almost certainly using LabFTP to upload your orders and print files. We’ve just finished the help pages for the new version, which has added functionality for ordering prints online from QBY (click here).

Which prompts this very important notice!

To send your Remix orders to Queensberry all you have to do is drag the ENTIRE BUNDLE created by the Remix Send Order wizard to LabFTP for uploading.

Please don’t open the folder and guess what to send – Queensberry told us what they wanted to put in the bundle, and they need it all!

Don’t know about LabFTP? Click here. It’s great.

Cheers, Ian

I posted the gist of this on the Digital Wedding Forum today…

FWIW we didn’t set out to compete with the slide show programs. We were after something that took just a minute of your time, was portable, and captured maximum marketing benefit from the work you’ve done designing your album(s).

That doesn’t make what we’ve done right, or perfect (it’s not), but does explains our goal. It’s great, for no effort, to be able to display every album you made last season to all this season’s prospective clients.

Queensberry uses the slideshow feature to email our album design jobs to clients. We display the layout numbers in the movie and our clients email back their comments and edits.

I don’t use Remix’s presets. Instead I use Custom to size it to fit a 1024×768 screen, so I’m sure anyone can view. It will look really great when projected. Here’s a 7MB sample from our blog. Hint: Don’t add music if you’re emailing; the audio will be bigger than the video.

We created a (portable) movie feature so we can email, upload or burn to CD or whatever. Uploading or burning are better options for very large shows with hundreds, even thousands of images.

If I was presenting in studio I would create a slideshow with music that I could display on my monitor or projector. I did this for years to demonstrate at seminars and it worked fine.

Assuming you want to present albums, your other option is to use the Preview palette, which you can set to review full screen. That works great too. You could also export proof quality layout files from the Album menu and do what you want with them. They are full size jpegs at 72dpi, which you can downsize if you wish. We do intend to implement the ability to specify an output size in a future release.

Again, we’re not trying to compete with Boinx or Proshow Gold, just get you a slideshow for a minute of your time. Play with the settings and see how you go. For further help, ask/search on our forum.

Cheers, Ian