
One way of enjoying and sharing your best shots is by turning them into a pro-looking HD slideshow, complete with effects, filters, transitions, text, clipart, a soundtrack, and even a narration. PhotoVidShow offers you a comprehensive video creation tool that comes with all the features you need to build such a slideshow and to share it online or burn it to disc.
Despite its overall intuitive design, the wide array of features and settings that PhotoVidShow provides will demand from the inexperienced users more than just a few minutes. Making the most of its many possibilities and options may take you some time and a certain learning curve, though the results are certainly worth the effort. Building a basic yet enticing slideshow, however, can be done easily in just a few clicks if you leave all the hard work to PhotoVidShow. It will apply one of its many designs, a default slide duration to all the images and videos present in the timeline, and transition effects to smooth out the change of slide.
If you wish to go creative, though, it is wise to spend a few minutes checking the app’s many different designs, backgrounds, filters, borders, etc., and see which combination fits your presentation best. You can also apply different transition effects and adjust the slide duration to the content of each slide, turn some of your shots into dramatic black and white images, make them zoom in and out or whirl around the frame, add titles and cliparts with our without motion effects, add frames and borders, background music, and even record your own narration and sync it with the video stream seamlessly using the program’s timeline.
The photos themselves can also be edited without leaving the program in terms of color adjustment, cropping, orientation, and outline masks. Once you are happy with the results – you can use the built-in player to preview the entire video or to check any changes in real time – you can save it as a video file and share it easily with your friends and family, or create a fully-authored DVD or Blu-ray disc.
PhotoVidShow offers a wide range of creative designs and effects to help you produce stunning slideshows or presentations from your static photo collections. Though it allows you to produce quick-and-dirty yet nice-looking slideshows in just a few steps, I recommend you to take the time to explore and check all of its possibilities – they’re certainly worth trying.
v4.4.1 [Oct 23, 2016]
- Support for amazon mp3's which contain large embedded pictures.
- Speed ups when moving and adjusting video decorations when editing slides.
- Support for amazon mp3's which contain large embedded pictures.
- Speed ups when moving and adjusting video decorations when editing slides.
- Can now fade in and out audio on videos.
- Can now manually set the audio fade length for video, music and narrations.
- Increased the 400 slides per slideshow limit to 1000 slides.
- Better support for .mov files that contain a MJPEG video codec.
- Should now not have the '31 Failed to read DVD structure' problem when burning. This was being caused by a firewall or anti-malware software blocking PhotoVidShow.
- User can now change the default folders to look for photos, music and project files.
- Updated to Microsoft .net framework 4.6.1 (Default for windows 10). Non Windows 10 users, may need to install this version of .net, but will be prompted at install time'. Unfortunately this means we have dropped support for Windows XP.
- Added delete button shortcuts.
- Fixed issue with storyboard times not updating after a trim video had been done.
- Added a 'Low' quality setting when video creating. I.e. useful if the video is destine for a web site and going to be streamed.
- Now no longer trims music that is repeated in storyboard.
- More warnings when music track play time is outside slideshow times.
- Music bar in storyboard always shows music name even when scrolled.
- Fixed issue when border decoration not always shown in storyboard thumbnail.
- Changed default menu font to better match default menu background.
- Automatically selects BD driver over DVD drive when burning BD discs.
- Fixed possible lock up issue if warning about not enough hard-drive space is shown.
- Removed 'Play All' type menu buttons for SVCD and VCD. They couldn't be used for these output types anyway.
- Re-linking media files, now shows the original path of the missing files.
- Fixed issue that you could not set the menu music to 'Nothing'.
- Extended option to insert a blank slide or picture before a slide, as well as after.
- Removed the ability to accidentally remove a slideshow thumbnail button from a menu via the 'Order layers' screen.
- More countries added on the PAL/NTSC automatic detection and selection when burning DVDs.
- Fixed issue where the 'DVD burner tool' would not launch if another different version of StartBurn was installed on the computer.
- Added .m2ts extension to the allowed extensions types when importing video.
- Fixed issue where 'motion effects' window not showing correct decoration when setting motion on a menu decoration.
- Fixed issue where music not always seeking to correct position when stopping and then re-playing in preview.
- Fixed issue with Blu-ray discs not working with 'Ignore menus' option turned on.
- Reduced default cached video players at once to 4 when editing. This helps memory issues when importing lots of 1080p video.
- Videos now work better in some more complex slide designs e.g. 'Wooden pan around' design.
- Fixed issue with blank video thumbnails occasionally appearing in storyboard.
- Now automatically reduces resolution of 1080p videos when editing, to reduce memory and improve speed. Output quality not effected though.
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