I found the functionality of this product very easy to grasp; within 30 min I was able to whip up a colourful 30-slide slideshow with transitioning effects, music and filters and some text, including video, and export to MP4 HD, which played back faithfully.

The layout is elegant, and the wide variety of Texts, Transitions, Filters and Elements (eg pasting of emoticons and GIF-like funny faces, snowflakes and other effects) is impressive - I found heaps of usable items in these categories.
You do have to wait for most of them to download the first time you use them, but I assume they are then available for the next project.

The options within each function, such as cropping and image contrast/saturation etc and Text boxes are also comprehensive enough to do 99% of the things I've needed to do in similar packages.

Exporting is great - there is a plethora of different formats, and then tweaking to your hearts content to cater for different sizes, quality, bitrate, frames etc. Very elegantly arranged too, like the rest of the package.

Transition times and slide view times are all alterable - either at a single level, or applying to all slides/transitions - that is most welcomed - I'm surprised how many other packages don't have this capability.

For a GOTD freebie, this is a fantastic product, and I've trialled a fair few over the years - for me, a keeper. For the asking price ongoing, I think it's a worthy contender against the competition, and I'd certainly consider buying it.

Grumble - Ok, I am really impressed, and I try not to be too negative in my reviews, but there's always something that bugs you, right??? My grumble is adding background music: It's easy to add your favourite audio file (looks like it handles all the popular formats). Once loaded you can set the start and end points of the song, but there is no fade-in/fade-out transitioning - it's a harsh cut-off. And there is no "track" view where you can align say one piece of music to the first 3 slides, and then a new piece to the next 3, and maybe have them overlap. That may be a bit OTT for others, but I like to control the music/image alignment. The alternative is to work out your music first and splice an audio file together using another tool and then load in as your audio track. If you've used a full video editor with multiple tracks you'll know what I'm talking about.

So, for the next version, it'd be great to have the ability to build audio snips, with fade-in/fade-out controls and volume/normalisation so you can make a custom-built audio track that nicely aligns with the slide timings.

Another point, very minor - the Preferences are under the "Help menu option, rather than "File" - a variation from 30 years of Windows tradition :)

Gurnley  –  2 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+35)

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I'm not sure what the issue is, but I cannot get this app to run. When I try to open it, it tells me 'No audio device found click ok to close.' But my audio is working fine on my computer.

gru  –  2 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+13)

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