Interested in hearing some comments about what effect the music has on your viewing. At some point I'll string the same images together with another style of music.
I hope to go travelling, at some point in the next year or so, and I think I prefer the Youtube slideshow, as a way of displaying images, than a static website such as FLICKR.
*twitches*
My $0.02:
Video is annoying. Really annoying. You might think being trapped on a Eurostar with no WiFi and wine served in plastic bottles is annoying, but that's nothing compared to pointless video on the web.
You want to show some images, great. By turning them into a video you've either a) just sucked up 4 minutes of my time or b) made me give up after the first three images, depending on how interested I might be.
By making them a video you've made me plug my headphones in to see if there's anything of interest in the soundtrack, which is inherently annoying when there isn't.
You've got them fading and zooming around in a way that would be PowerPoint designer's wet dream, but that actually just prevents me from getting a proper look at the images, and makes barakta turn it off so she doesn't get a headache.
It's limited to video resolution, obviously.
I can't easily go and find image #27 to show someone later, or link to it in a post asking what that interesting looking thingummy is.
Flash, codecs, bandwidth, yawn...
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I think there's a time and a place for this sort of thing. Usually as part of an actual video, or as a slideshow you're putting on in some physical space. Perhaps as illustration to some recorded speech (although I'd generally prefer that as text) or even music. But as a substitute for a webpage of images, it's just frustrating. Like when you google for how to access the RAM slot on a Latitude D620 and instead of finding a nice page with some easily-skim-read text describing the procedure and a couple of images, the second of which shows the DIMM hiding cheekily under the keyboard, answering your question in about 3.5 seconds, you get a 7 minute portrait-ratio YouTube video of some millennial taking it apart while wittering into his mobile phone.
(This is not an endorsement of Flickr's UI.)