27 bucks for this?? Come on....be serious man!!

* DVD slideshow GUI (==> Softpedia Editor Pick and my Personal First Choice)
Best FREE slideshow creator ever created with 237 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.
To add an audio track (for instance a recorded narration) to a specific point of your slideshow, just export your slideshow to mpg/avi format, then open it with the freeware “DubIt”:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-Tools/DubIt.shtml

After recording your narration or adding your music sounds to specific points of your slideshow, export to wav/mp3 and then import them into you DVD slideshow GUI project.

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

Then, if you want to publish your Video Slideshow on your own website in a very professional way, just use this amazing FREE APP kissing YouTube and BigG brother goodbye for good:

http://flowplayer.org

As you can see, this awesome Open Source Video Player can be easily embedded in any websites in order to enhance their content with video clips, presentations or family movies, thus enabling users to create web pages streaming Flash movies. And it's even able to switch between different video streams, so as to provide the best possible content to users with different Internet connection speed, thanks to its awesome "Bandwidth detection plug-in" which automatically monitors the maximum bandwidth and changes the bitrate accordingly.

Full Online Tutorial:
http://flash.flowplayer.org/documentation

* 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.softpedia.com/get/Authoring-tools/Authoring-Related/Microsoft-Photo-Story.shtml

See also:
http://www.perfectphotoshow.com
http://www.jetphotosoft.com/web/?s=jpstudio_0
http://www.dicksonlam.com/2012/05/09/339

==> FREE & ALWAYS UPDATABLE BETTER ALTERNATIVES <== Enjoy!!!

My 2 cents for today's giveaway....

Giovanni  –  12 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+131)

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Pros
*Export slideshows as screensaver, video, or to CD
*Supports many input image formats
*Set MP3 files for background music
*Supports dozens of transitiions between images
*Customize slideshow settings, like display duration

Cons
*Doesn't natively export to video but rather records to video
*Why only MP3 files for background audio?
*Export to video is limited to AVI, WMV, and MPEG

Free Alternatives
IrfanView
Anvsoft Photo Flash Maker Free

Final Verdict
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Ashraf from dotTech  –  12 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+69)

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Yet another of the pseudo DVD slide-show pieces of software out there - when will we see a free one that actually utilises the true ability of a DVD to store images in their native form with a decent menu system and not simply encode to images to a 720x576 movie of rolling pictures. Simply speaking there's a lot of wasted space by these slide-show apps as they do not simply display an 'i-frame' and then freeze for a number of seconds, but waste disc space with the 24 extra frames they must display each second (depending on the native fps of the player) so each image in a 5 second-per-image slide show is taking up well the space of over a potential 100 images of the same quality.
Bottom line, you're better off dumping the images into folders and playing them with the functions of your DVD player which in my experience can generally display the images at a much better resolution than the native 720p of a DVD.

PT  –  12 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+41)

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Free alternative:
Bolide Slideshow Creator - it has more output video formats, but can't export the slideshow as a screensaver.

Today's giveaway is good for those, who want to make a screensaver with photos

Henrie  –  12 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+30)

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I have to jump in here to remind newbies that an old, favorite utility called Irfanview (IV) can do this: Make an image show with your Jpgs and gifs and whatever, burn it to a CD with the IV engine to run it in case the destination PC doesn't have a copy of IV. Add music or not to it. I used to make these CD shows for nurses shows and pharmaceutical displays in hospitals. IV is free, has been for years.

David Roper  –  12 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+27)

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