Xilisoft Photo Slideshow Maker - Presentation and Licenses to Giveaway contest

Xilisoft Photo Slideshow Maker stands out as a premier photo slideshow software, enabling the creation of dynamic visual narratives to commemorate photographic memories, facilitate sharing with associates, or for web-based dissemination. This application seamlessly transforms your photo collections into bespoke video presentations, supporting a comprehensive array of formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, FLV, H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MOV, RMVB, ASF, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, VOB, TS, DV, MKV, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (*.mp4), MPEG2 HD Video (*.mpg; *.mpeg), MKV HD Video, MPEG-2 TS HD Video (*.ts), Quick Time HD Video (*.mov), WMV HD Video (*.wmv), and Audio-Video Interleaved HD Video (*.avi).

With its intuitive interface, this tool facilitates the creation of personalized photo videos through features such as incorporating background music from imported audio files, applying transitional effects between images, and adjusting the orientation and display sequence of imported photographs. The Xilisoft Photo Slideshow Maker enables users to realize their creative vision.

Key functionalities include:

* Generating high-quality videos from various image formats, including JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, XBM, and XPM.

* Integrating preferred music selections as background audio for photo videos.

* Enhancing photo videos with customizable transitional effects between images.

* Modifying the orientation and display order of imported images.

* Providing comprehensive background music editing capabilities.

We conducted extensive testing of Photo Slideshow Maker, particularly focusing on its various output formats. Photo Slideshow Maker is an exceptional program for generating animated slideshows from images as video clips, offering remarkable ease of use. Users can immediately begin by incorporating images, music, and even apply random transitions between slides. Its utility extends to creating banners or other image-based animations, such as presentations. Evaluating the quality versus output format settings and the resulting file size can be time-consuming, especially for web presentations where file size directly impacts internet speed and loading times. This was particularly evident as we optimized the image materials for web use by employing PNGOUT on 256-color PNG screenshots. However, for creating video slideshows on CD/DVDs, file size is not a significant consideration.


Pro:
+ very easy to use program gui. You don't need to spend much time until you know all functions and can start right away to create great slideshows.
+ easy understandable program help included.
+ all checkboxes, functions and options in the menus are well documented with tips by placing the mouse over the items.
+ multilanguage support.
+ possibility to rotate pictures within the program. No picture editing software required.
+ drag'n'prop adding photos, music and move the photos to every position you like to show them up.
+ preview function works right away without delay.
+ an extensive variety of presetted and supported output file formats.
+ advanced parameters can be set for all kind of output file formats.
+ You can create for all kind of media devices very cool looking slideshows YouTube, iPad, iPhone, iPod and etc.
+ if you have a lot of pictures added and want to do changes, by placing the mouse cursor over a image sequence, it shows the filename of the picture. Which is very helpful in some cases.
+ when you edit a photo in a 3th application while in Photo Slideshow Maker the photo is already added, it updates by self before creating an output file. You don't need for this to remove and re-add the picture. If you see in preview anything which you want change so you can do it in your image editor software anytime and save it. The image updates inside Photo Slideshow Maker.

Contra:
- projects can not be saved to reopen and edit later
- custom output file profiles can not be saved
- The effects "Transition", a variety of effects, can not be selected per picture and per project. You can only activate/deactivate random or dissolve Transition for the entire show between the photos.
- for flash as output format, to embed into websites, the quality versus filesize gives no well results. By our sample we got a 8 mb flash file output size in good quality or 2 mb in unusable bad quality. The source picture files had a filesize all together of 372 kb png/images. On the other hand, professional Flash tools cost twice as much as Photo Slideshow Maker does and supporting only swf.
- high sampling smaller resolution for example 900px x 900px images as source to YouTube HD or other formats cuts big parts of the pictures while downwards it re-size the sources well into the slideshow.

Conclusion: Xilisoft Photo Slideshow Maker is exactly as advertised: Make Photo Movies as Easy as ever You can Imagine.


*Sample Clip done with Xilisoft Photo Slideshow Maker:



Xilisoft Corporation has an amazing wide range of Products and solutions to offer for converting, burning, backup and creating multimedia files like movies and music and all kinds of audio and video.
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5x Xilisoft Photo Slideshow Maker (worth $39.95 each) we giveaway in combination with this publication.
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We announcing on 22. April 2011 - 5 random winners from all comments.

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*Sample presentation video created under Creative Commons license Attribution 3.0