The Easy Way to Create Photo Slideshows for TV Ulead?# CD & DVD PictureShow 4 makes it easy to create entertaining photo slideshows to watch on TV. Turn your photos into slideshows complete with music, transitions, captions, narration and stunning effects in only three steps. Use Instant-Show?# theme templates to make outstanding slideshows the first time, every time... Ulead Systems Inc :: ulead :: cd :: dvd :: pictureshow :: 4 :: ulead :: systems :: inc :: multimedia :: design :: media :: management :: uleadcd-dvdpictureshow4 deluxe :: Ulead CD - DVD PictureShow 4
5 stars (Great for wedding DVD's) - I purchased the PictureShow 2.0 version and saw some negative comments so I felt compelled to speak up for such a good product. This software is great. I used it to create my own wedding DVD and also a yoga DVD for a friend. Both turned out much better than some professionally created ones I've seen. I think a lot of professional video (artist types) people are using old tools and aren't very computer literate. I have a windows XP PC. Pro's * You can create a professional looking DVD menu with your own image and music in the background. * It also has many template menus to pick from. Very easy to change font's and colors. * This product never crashed or got stuck. Unlike Roxio software. I'll never buy Roxio again. * I had about 600 pictures, 6 categories' (front menu) and used about 20 songs. It handled it no problem. * It has a default transition of fade to black. It looks the most professional. It also had many other transitions to pick from, but honestly who uses checker, swips, up/down fades on TV or movies. It looks amateurish. * You can start or end a song on any picture. It has a total time for each picture, including transition time, so you can start the next song when the other one finishes. May require a calculator for the math challenged. * I never burned directly to DVD because I wanted to make many copies so I created the DVD image on my hard-disk. I then used my crappy Roxio software to burn the DVD. This process works very quickly, as it only takes about 5 minutes to burn the DVD from an already created DVD image. The poor guy in some other review thought he needed a new DVD drive to burn his disk. He didn't, he could have just created a DVD image on his hard-disk and then used ANY software to burn the DVD disk. * The final DVD looks and plays flawlessly. I have a 6 year old sony DVD player and it actually plays it fine. I was surprised to say the least. * I don't believe it is possible for m... ULead Systems :: Editing :: Video :: CD Recording (Burning :: Burners) :: Image Capture Capturing :: desk top publishing :: desktop publishing :: Professional Design :: Graphics (Grap :: Ulead CD - DVD PictureShow 3 Deluxe