GiliSoft SlideShow Movie Creator is the easy-to-use yet powerful photo slide software.With it,you can combine your photos into video with music and 2D/3D transition effects for sharing with your friends,and you can easily turn your photo collections to personalized videos in format of AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD or 3GP.
It allows you to add audio, themes, and special effects to your photos to create flamboyant videos.
The program offers a simple and self-explanatory user interface, though it is also a bit uncolored and little attractive. It allows you to create your slideshow through five simple steps. First of all, you need to select your source photos, though the program only supports three popular formats: JPEG, BMP, and PNG. You can rotate your source photos to your convenience, and apply some basic editing effects to them as well. Next, you can select any of the themes available and apply it to your slideshow, though this is optional. The free evaluation version of the program includes only four themes that – honestly – look too childish. However, once you register the program, you will get many additional themes to choose from.
The next step corresponds to the music selection section, which is also optional. You can either pick up an existing audio file or record your own background music using a microphone. If you go for the audio file option, you can select files in several popular audio file formats, such as MP2, MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, Ogg, and AAC. Finally, you may add a header and a trailer to your slideshow. Both of them can be created using image or video files that you can also edit. Once you have completed all the steps mentioned, you can proceed to export your video. To do this, you will need to select an output video format, its location, and a file name. As for the output format, the program supports all popular video codecs, and it includes many presets that allow you to make your video files compatible with a wide variety of brands and models of portable devices. Anyway, you can also tweak the internal audio and video parameters of the format of your choice, which may be very useful in case you are an advanced user or you happen to have any specific requirements.
To sum up, GiliSoft Slideshow Movie Creator is a practical tool that you can use to create professional-looking slideshows from your photo collections. However, this is not really a professional tool and it is intended for personal and amateur use only.