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.

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

Both belong in your slideshow. 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.

Does this sound familiar? A little too much played with the contrast, saved, the original overwritten, and only noticed the next day that the image actually isn't usable?

This cannot happen with SlideShow for YouTube. The majical word is “non-destructive image editing”: every step during editing is saved and can be changed at any time. The original image will never be changed. This way you can always go back to the original state, or you can use the same image at different positions in the show with different effects.

This handy feature facilitates tremendously all those little corrections to your images or helps to accomplish sophisticated effects.

• DirectX-Player for a smooth visualization on PC and beamer, even with more than FullHD (e.g. 1920x1200, with more than 60 frames/second, with the low-end card ATI Radeon 2400)
• Support of multicore CPUs, amongst others for the internal processing of the images
• Strongly accelerated internal graphics system, e.g. the SSE2 command set is now used. Images are processed up to 10 times faster, which is particularly noticable for large images that don't need to be reduced in size anymore to be usable in SlideShow (on singlecore systems also)
• Images are loaded much faster in Layout designer. Thus working with SlideShow feels a lot smoother.

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.

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.

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.

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 make your pictures more interesting or give them a more harmonic impression inside the slideshow. 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.

• 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 rotations: 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.
• Transitions: 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 slideshow, 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.
• Chapters: 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 slideshow without much effort? Then you should use the SlideShow-Master. It creates a sophisticated slideshow in three easy steps. Select pictures -> Select music -> Select style. Of course, slideshows created by SlideShow-Master can be edited and adjusted to your individual needs.

Opreating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Processor: from Pentium, multicore systems are supported
RAM: 512 MB
Hard drive: 50 MB
Graphic: 1024x768x32bit