Features:
- Create and share digital photo slideshows on CD or DVD
- Create DVD-style menus to present your slideshows
- Easy wizard-based creation
- Add music to your slideshows
- Automatically detects your drive and burns discs that you can play on DVD home players
Description:
Sharing your digital photos with friends and family doesn't have to mean crowding around the PC any more: DVD PictureShow makes it easy to burn thousands of photographs onto a DVD as a slideshow that plays back automatically. That means you can send a disc to your family and they can flip through your photos on TV. You can fit 99 slide shows of 99 images on a DVD disc, but if you only have a CD burner, you can still burn up to 1900 images onto a Video CD that will play in most DVD players. There's nothing complicated about making a DVD with this package: it automatically resizes your photos and you don't need to worry about the TV settings. You've got plenty of control of every step: it's easy to pick the photos you want in each slideshow from thumbnails and you can even rotate a photo if it's in portrait mode. You can set how long each image is on screen for and add background music, and DVD PictureShow illustrates on screen just how much disc space you'll need. There are lots of templates for laying out the DVD menu (which can also have background music) and you can use your own image for the background. You can preview individual slideshows or the whole disc and save the disc image to burn later in the Disc Image Recorder software. This is the kind of tool that you'd usually find as a wizard inside another software package, such as a video-editing application. But if you've already got an image-editing program and you don't need to work with video clips, DVD PictureShow is the simplest software around for making DVDs and video CDs of your favorite images. --Mary Branscombe, Amazon.co.uk
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