The 24 minutes multiformat (HD+QHD+UHD) video show below is by no means just another PowerPoint or Keynote. It is, in fact, a polished synthesis of Peter Kater’s famous “How the West Was Lost” and a selection of 210 of my best images of the most famous natural landscapes of the West. To accompany the coloured furor of Yellowstone I have, however, chosen Mendelssohn’s majestic “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges”. The video show is fully subtitled in English while retaining some easily understandable French text.

“Even on the smaller computer screen I was fascinated. The music fits perfectly to the different moods the landscapes induce, and having seen some of them five years ago made me long to go back there. What a great and overwhelming video, making us want to go to all those places (again); it´s perfect in colours and music. Thank you for giving me such joy and thank you for your support! Please keep me informed of further version and further videos.” Best regards fom Germany, Rudolf

Professor Dr Rudolf E… 94034 Passau, Germany

On a computer, VLC app is the standard free choice to play the video slide show. The app is agile enough on a mid-range computer and does not betray the colours (unlike some others like QuickTime Player and iTunes working in a different colour space that turn among other differences the deep blues into undesired light purple).

PowerDVD 15 Ultra for PCs and Macgo Blu-ray Player for Macs are even more handy, but they are not free.

Best rendition is acheived in a dark room on a monitor calibrated as follows: Brightness: 240 cd/m2; White point: 6500 K; gamma: 2.2. (gamma 2.2 is somehow a compromise between recommended 1.8 gamma for printing purpose and 2.5 of many TV monitors, and is the common standard on Windows). N.B. You don’t need a 4k monitor to play the 4k video since it will automatically adapt to all monitors. Please note that the rendition of the true colours on a TV monitor can be challenging.

On a smartphone, or a tablet, the colours are not fully (re)encoded as they are on a computer, and VLC use is facultative only. As a result, colours widely depend on the quality of the screen itself. Some examples: on an iPhone 4 they are pretty correct, while they are too green on a 4S. Oppositly, on a Samsung S7 Edge, the magentas (pink-red) are too high. Nevertheless, whichever your device, the result remains fully enticing.

What foreign internauts said after viewing

Dear Alain, The file worked and is complete and also my updated VLC player did what I wanted it to do (some of the other players don't!). I am still trying to get the video on my big super TV screen, hope I'll manage today.

Even on the smaller computer screen I was fascinated. The music fits perfectly to the different moods the landscapes induce, and having seen some of them five years ago made me long to go back there. What a great and overwhelming video, making us want to go to all those places (again); it´s perfect in colours and music.

Thank you for giving me such joy and thank you for your support! Please keep me informed of further version and further videos.

Best regards fom Germany, Rudolf

Professor Dr Rudolf E… 94034 Passau, Germany

To place an order: The “Acheter” buttons are linked directly to the PayPal site. Just the “Download” versions are available outside Metropolitan France and Belgium. You will then receive an email accordingly (in a matter of minutes or hours) with a link to download the file.