SlideShow 6 -Advantages

Create your own movies from images

You took beautiful images but they don't move. The illusion of a lively movement is easily created by facilitating the possibilities of animation in SlideShow.

Zoom into a segment of the image with a sweep, let a panorama pass in front of you, move an image over another along a path.

A cinematic animation is quickly created, fresh and lively, just like real life.

Burning images with music and text on DVD

This is a task that you will master immediately. You took photos and have assigned captions, you have chosen background music. Now you create a DVD that you can play in every DVD-player and, of course on a PC.

Play images and video clips in a slide show

Most of today's digital cameras are capable to do both, taking pictures and capturing video clips.

Both belong in your slide show. If you add photos and video clips to your show, you can cross-fade them and move them around arbitrarily. Zoom into the video inside the video. Only your imagination sets limits to your creativity.

Edit images without changing them - non-destructive image editing

The snapshot hit home, but you want to edit your picture for a certain effect. Inside SlideShow you edit the picture and save it, you edit it again and again and reuse everywhere, even multiple times, just where you want it. And always will the original image stay as it was.

SlideShow hits the throttle - hardware acceleration

Ingeneous components are assembled under the hood. DirectX, the Windows standard for hardware acceleration directly out of the graphics card, morphes sluggishly crawling large-screen shows into breathtaking action thrillers.

And if you computer has multiple cores they will split the wourkload effectively. The result is a smooth flow of your anumated show, just like in a Hollywood movie. Now let's say: Aaaand action!

Widescreen slide shows in 16:9-format

Those who want to create slide shows for widescreen TVs finds the best options in AquaSoft SlideShow 6. Slide shows can be burnt on DVD directly in 16:9-format, but the program also helps while desining the show. With options for image cropping or withs masks and collages, camera pans and panarama views can the wide display be usefully filled.

Telling stories with pictures

A picture says more than a thousand words, and you have quite a few of them. Just back to back they are boring. Therefore, animate images, bundle several of them in collages or chapters/themes, assign cross-fading, zoom in and out, rotate them*, let them move along invisible strings, and much more. Naturally you can underscore your story with spoken comments, assign background music and add animated text. This way, by using a few simple mouse-clicks, you present your adventures lively, witty and with esprit.

Include all the videos you want

In SlideShow videos are treated like pictures. They move and they get moved. Your photos are fine, but you also made videos or found them on a website. You want to include both into your shows. Easily, even more than one - the Timeline is the right tool for you.

Multiple pictures at the same time

A picture can look great, but you don't go into a gallery each day. To present multiple photos at the same time makes your show exciting and fascinating. It is very easy to arrage pictures to collages or to animate and play them from different tracks at the same time.

Dancing characters or charmed photos

Pictures say more than a thousand words, but words have their place, too. Texts and captions enhance your show if they come flying into the picture, if the characters do a round dance through the show or accompany the picture message with a multitude of awesome effects assigned.

Bitmap effects via Drag&Drop

Bitmap effects make your pictures more interesting or give them a more harmonic impression inside the slide show. Starting with an unobtrusive shadow, over a soft mirroring or a Polaroid effect to extravagant masks and frames everything is possible. Of course the effects can be edited or you can create your own*.

Features of AquaSoft SlideShow 6

• Burning DVDs and CDs: Your show as video on TV or on PC, creating DVDs or (Super)Video-CDs with just a few clicks, that can be played in standard DVD-players.
• Video export and HDTV: To be able to further process or present your slide shows they can be exported to high-definition videos (HDTV) in AVI- and WMV*-format.
• Timeline: Everything you want to replay needs its space on a timeline. Specify the timely position and duration of images, text and sounds. Put several time tracks side by side and everything happens at the same time.
• Zoom: Let your images and text* come to life. Wheather to zoom in or out, into an image or a video, you decide what, when, where and how the zoom happens.
• Camera pans: A sector you define will go wandering over the image, from right to left, from left to right, up down, sloped, in and out again. No movement is impossible.
• Movement paths: On your screen you place marks that, being connected, become movement paths. Like invisibly guided your images fly along these paths in a time-controlled fashion.
• Turns* and rotation*: Images, text, collages and particle objects can fly along an arbitrary movement path. Additionally, a rotation angle can get assigned to each movement mark. Movements will flow gently and softly or boldly and dynamically, just as you wish.
• Transition: There are more than 70 impressive transitions. Although, these transitions are just pre-defined examples. By using the detailed options for settings in space and time you can create millions of different transitions.
• Bitmap effects: Many pre-defined bitmap effects (shadows, mirroring, frames, masks, decorations, etc.) can be assigned to your images simply by Drag&Drop. By using the Bitmap Effect Editor* you can edit these effects or create new ones yourself.
• Any number of pictures: Where other programs throw in the towel SlideShow accelerates. There are no limits to the number of pictures, and by using chapters you can easily structure shows with hundreds and more pictures.
  
• Alpha channel: Alpha channels (transparency information) are fully supported by AquaSoft SlideShow (PNG-images). Pictures gently disappear and re-appear, or blend with overlay images. Create impressive effects, collages with irregular edges or transparencies.
• Non-destructive image editing: Destructive means destroying. The integrated image editor in SlideShow is non-destructive, because your original picture remains untouched and intact. This way you can change and enhance pictures and reuse them at different places, without losing your original.
• Image formats: JPG, JPEG-2000, PNG, Tiff and more then 50 other known image formats
• EXIF-data: EXIF-data are additional technical information stored in a photograph. AquaSoft SlideShow allows access to these EXIF-data. E.g you can sort your images by exposure date or display EXIF-data together with the image.
• Sound: Music and voice in several tracks at once. Now a Babylonic babble of voices is only a matter of selecting the voices. And beneath all lies the Big OM of the background music.
• Background music: Due to the multi-track Timeline a background music can be assigned for the whole slide show, independent of separate sounds and comments assigned to images. You can specify volume, duration, fade in and out and transitions for each sound piece.
• Collages: Collages will be created where separate pictures are assembled to groups. SlideShow masters complex collages from arbitrary images and texts, which also can be animated.
• Chapter: If you have a large number of images ordering them into chapters is a welcome feature. These chapters can have multiple tracks themselves, andeach track may contain any number of images or other objects, which can have arbitrary distances to each other.
• Text effects: How many effects do you need? More than 100 text effects, plus animated fonts, transparent and flowing, diversify the text flow and make it interesting. While these are just the pre-defined base effects, each effect can be edited to your liking.
• SlideShow-Master: Do you want to create an attractive slide show without much effort? Then you should use the SlideShow-Master. It creates a sophisticated slide show in three easy steps. Select pictures -> Select music -> Select style. Of course, slide shows created by SlideShow-Master can be edited and adjusted to your individual needs.
• Plug-ins: Useful additional functionality can be docked into SlideShow using the plug-in mechanism. Websites, photo calendars and albums, screen savers and automatic batch processing, as well as SlideShow-Manager work as plug-in. Plug in and go.

* only in SlideShow Studio