Pandigital busts out four video-playing digital photo frames

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Stuart Keen @ Jun 14th 2007 10:14AM

Peter, sorry to bother you, but since you so expertly solved the video compatibility problem, I was wondering if you have a solution for putting the video clips in sequence. Nothing I do seems to work. What worked for the photos does not work for the videos. I made five short clips and wanted them in sequence. Here is what I tried and the results:

1) dragged the five clips, one by one, in sequence onto the SD Card. Result sequence was : 4, 1, 3, 5, 2
2) Then deleted them from card, numbered each 1., 2. etc and loaded one by one in sequence: Result 1. 3. 4. 5. 2.
3) Then tried numbering with no period or space between number and name, drag one by one: Result 1, 3, 4, 5, 2
4) Then made a separate iPhoto album, arranged in sequence without numbers, and dragged the five to the SD: 4, 1, 5, 2, 3

I have run out of ideas. Have you discovered how they can be put in sequence? The only possible solution I can come up with is:
1) make a composite video of all clips in sequence in Final Cut Pro (or perhaps in iMovieHD - no experience with that app) and 2) ALSO load the card with the individual clips so you can select individual videos if you don't want the entire sequence played. But of course this is duplicating each clip and wasting valuable storage space.

I purchased earlier a different digital photo frame (no manufacture listed anywhere???). I don't like it because of the inferior and wide screen (not 4:3), but the internal software is so superior to PanDigital - you can mix photos and videos, accepts original videos without modification, and you can pause the playing at anytime. One thing it does is allow you to pause and then zooming in on that particular photo, then resume the show. On the PanDigital it seems that in order to zoom you must exit the slide show, then go into the Photo menu page which may be many pages in depth, tediously find the one photo you want to inspect, select and then zoom, then resume the show. Is this correct or is there a way to PAUSE the slide show and zoom in on a particular photo and then resume the show again? The manual is so skimpy and poorly written (after working in Beijing for 3 years I should be use to their lingo, but this manual really is a looser!). Stu

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