Today's giveaway looks a pretty good app which does its job without any hassle.

It has a very user friendly interface although the "drag and drop" method is not supported when importing photos from your PC.

This app enables you to add text on the videos, as well as select the audio track and the video compression codec for your final output, not to mention that it can make cross fading transitions between your photos.

So overall, for what it does, I give it a THUMBS UP.

However, as usual, there are tons of excellent FREEWARE and always UPDATABLE alternatives out there which can replace this tool quite easily....

BETTER FREE ALTERNATIVES:

* Microsoft Photostory 3
Awesome FREE app by Microsoft designed to create professional slideshows from your still pictures.It supports any kind of photo format, offering you a preview window and some basic editing functions. It lets you add text over your photos and even create songs on the go to add on your final slideshow.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=92755126-a008-49b3-b3f4-6f33852af9c1

* (Portable) PhotoFilmStrip
Great FREE app designed to create movies out of your pictures in just 3 easy steps: it can even render your slide show in Full-HD (1920x1080) resolution.

http://www.photofilmstrip.org/1-1-Home.html

* ffDiaporama 1.0
This is an excellent OPEN SOURCE software which helps you create superb video sequences made up of titles (fixed or animated), images or photos (fixed or animated), movie clips, music.

http://ffdiaporama.tuxfamily.org/ffdiaporama/?lang=en

* DVD slideshow GUI
Best FREE slideshow creator ever created with over 245 transitions and 100 special effects to add on your entire slideshow.
With this magic FREE tool you can even add and edit music, 35 motion backgrounds, borders and subtitles.

http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/

* Bolide Free Slideshow Creator
Superb FREE video slideshow creator, which supports almost any photo file format to produce high quality video files as AVI, MKV or WMV with FullHD resolution!

http://slideshow-creator.com/


If you are instead eager to edit or add funny effects to your still photos or even to your videos, these are the best FREE IMAGE EDITORS I recommend you using:

* (Portable) StylePix (==> COOL lightweight app)
http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/Features.html

Screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/StylePix-Screenshot-133549.html

(Video) Tutorials:
http://hornil.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=sp_tip
http://hornil.com/en/community/HornilStylePixVideoTutorials.html

* Portable FreeVimager
Great free image viewer, editor, converter and slideshow maker which can even play AVI video files and some type of audio files in a couple of mouse clicks.

http://www.contaware.com/content/view/45/45/

* EKD
Very powerful post-production software for retouching both your videos and pictures in one go. In short it helps you transform your pictures into professional video files, as well as edit and encode your video sequences.

http://ekd.tuxfamily.org/index.php/Accueil/AccueilEnglish


Enjoy!!

Giovanni  –  12 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+252)

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Very poor resulting video pixalated and sound distorted Program removed PDQ

Chris  –  12 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+89)

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WATCH OUT FOR THE *NOT QUITE* HIDDEN TOOLBAR AND OTHER SOFTWARE BEING INSTALLED WITH THIS ONE (EVEN WITH THE DWONLOAD FROM THE WEBSITE).

Harold DeWayne  –  12 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+75)

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Installed ok on Visa Premium. Their website has to be one of the blandest and faint and small I have seen in a while.
Doesn't seem to allow drag and drop so painful to add files.
Rather slow as it adds the thumbnails . Added 6 photos and ran the program. It produced an avi file which loads fine into VLC but doesn't show anything. Lots of free programs which will produce videos from stills. Nice try but must try harder!

Harroman  –  12 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+63)

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Where are all the special effects that can be added with a few clicks? On my program there are only two options - those that turn the pictures to B & W or sepia. I couldn't see anywhere to download additional effects. The only transitions that showed up when I chose the dynamic picture option, the cross-fading, and the longest fps option was a slow movement up for one picture, then down for the next, etc. And if I chose a long time period for each picture then some fading transistions kicked in. But this is hardly a professional result as the program boasts.

There was nowhere to add text either. The 'expert' button just resulted in a strange result for me: superfast scrolling through the pictures.

Also the compression is suspect for the first optiion: Microsoft - produces too pixilated a result. A decent one is the IYUV Intel Codec.

I think this software still needs much more thought put into it for the user to get a good result.

Wendy  –  12 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+32)

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