Which features a converter with many output options, so if you plan to output to your specific device it is likely that you will be covered.įor free this is fine to hook that HDMI cable between your computer and TV and show a casual slideshow. So, for casual slideshows this wondershare is fine for free. Just compare it to LQ Graphics Photo to Movie which sells for 29.95 everyday and is EXCELLENT. The deluxe version has more features but is very pricey - even at 50% off. IMHO this offering is a hobbyist version, intended to send nice but basic slideshows to friends and relatives. The standard version sells for 39.95 and the deluxe version is 59.95 on their website. As freeware, Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Standard is a joke as a prospective $40 re-install, it represents the biggest waste of money any computer user could ever contemplate. though why anyone would bother with either of these Wondershare products escapes me. This Standard version has every apperance of crippleware intended to be an upsell to the equally over-priced $59.95. At $39.95, it's $39.95 over-priced - and at free, still isn't worth the time and trouble of bothering with a download and intall. In other words: this is robotic software at its absolute worst. Crucially, there is no control over the duration of image display and - just as bad - no control over transition times, be it a slow fade in or out, or a quick jump-cut. No transition effects: images just jerk from one to another as if in a slide projector. So now it's 2012, and here's Wondershare with a $40 (reduced from $50) DVD Slideshow Builder Standard, software that seems to have been invented in complete ignorance of both Ken Burns and Microsoft Photostory 3. But the workarounds aren't that difficult to use. That development failure means that workarounds are needed to utilise PS3 in 16:9 mode, and also to burn PS3 productions to DVD, it being the case that the software was created in an era before home DVD players and widescreen monitors and TV. That Microsoft failed to develop this product is a mystery, for it could easily have become commercialware and wiped out every other slideshow maker program ever conceived, back then or, indeed, right now. Thanks to its technologically elegant construction and flawless GUI, Photostory 3 allows full user control over every production aspect, including lateral panning, zooming in and out, image-display time, even transition display time. PhotoStory 3 facilitates the compilation of still images in such a way as to achieve a 100% professional-looking movie production. Burns's astonishing Civil War television production has won more awards than any other documentary series in TV history, and for good reason: aside from all its other achievements in scripting, editing, and overall production, it's the first example of still images being handled in such a way as to make them appear moving images.įast forward from the pre-digital era of 1990 to 2001, and Microsoft's PhotoStory 3 took everything that Ken Burns had pioneered and wrapped it all up into a software program all the more astonishing for being totally free. But then came the American film-maker, Ken Burns, who in 1990 changed the way we look at slides v movies forever. They didn't look anything like a movie, nor could they: still images are just that. Once upon a time, 'slideshows' were just that: 35m film slides enlarged on a white screen by a projector.
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