Do you have a lot of digital photos? Do you want to turn them into a professional movie with a lot of effects and background music? It is really easy to do it with this program! You friends will highly evaluate the created movies because your photos come to life in them! Slideshow Movie Producer allows you to create movies and even full-length films in the MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX, xVid formats out of your digital photos. You will be able to choose effects that match your photos best, music, transition duration, slide delays. If you already had in your life such special events as a wedding, a stag party, a child birth, a journey, a New Year party, a prom, awarding ceremonies, various anniversaries, a retirement party .... make these events unforgettable. Music movies are much more fun to watch than just photos. Music movies will complement your collection and bring it to life. You can write them to a CD/DVD and play them using most hardware DVD players or just send them to your friend by e-mail.

Bring your digital photos to life ...

The program can be downloaded from
http://www.al-soft.com/smp/smp_setup.exe (~3mb)

Main Features:

• Usable and modern interface supporting skins
• There can be up to 9 groups of slide shows in each project
• You can choose any of several dozens of transition effects for each slide and also specify how long each slide is displayed (slide delay), how long each effect lasts. There is a calculator to calculate these delays
• Attractive 2D and 3D effects, more than 70 various effects are available at the moment
• You can specify any background image for each slide show, you can make it float in specified directions. For example, the background can float from left to right or diagonally upward
• The background of a slide show can be a regular color or a gradient color specified for each of the corners. The gradient color can dynamically change in the process of viewing the slide show, similar to lights at a disco
• You can specify up to three text comments for each slide. They will can be displayed both in the process of displaying a slide and in the process of transition to the next slide. You can specify in seconds how long each comment is displayed
• The support of large size images up to 4096x4096 pixels
• The source photos can be of the following formats: *.jpg; *.jpeg; *.jpe; *.bmp; *.dib; *.jp2; *.j2k; *.jpc; *.j2c; *.tif; *.tiff; *.fax; *.g3n; *.g3f; *.gif; *.pcx; *.rle; *.png; *.wmf; *.emf; *.tga; *.targa; *.vda; *.icb; *.vst; *.pix; *.pxm; *.ppm; *.wbmp; *.dcx; *.crw; *.cr2; *.nef; *.raw; *.ref; *.raf
• The source of background music can be of the following formats: *.wav; *.mid; *.midi; *.wma; *.mp2; *.m2a; *.mp3; *.ogg; *.ac3
• The program can generate video files of the following formats:
  • MPG, MPEG (MPEG-1 standard, MPEG-1 with VideoCD extensions, MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-2 with Super VideoCD extensions, MPEG-2 with DVD extensions). Program has two MPEG encoders, one very fast and the other for high quality and compatibility.
  • AVI (DivX, xVid, and other codecs installed on the system)
  • PAL/SECAM and NTSC at your choice
• You can change a lot of video generation parameters. Besides, there are several predefined settings that will suit most users:
  • VCD - MPEG - NTSC, 352x240, 29.97fps, 1150kbps
  • VCD - MPEG - PAL, 352x288, 25.00fps, 1150kbps
  • SVCD - MPEG - NTSC, 480x480, 29.97fps
  • SVCD - MPEG - PAL, 480x576, 25.00fps
  • DVD-MPEG with AC3-compatible audio, NTSC, 720x480, 29.97fps
  • DVD-MPEG with AC3-compatible audio, PAL, 720x576, 25fps
  • MPEG-1 standard NTSC, 352x240, 29.97fps, 1700kbps
  • MPEG-1 standard PAL, 352x288, 25.00fps, 1700kbps
  • MPEG-2 standard NTSC, 720x480, 29.97fps, 4200kbps
  • MPEG-2 standard PAL, 720x576, 25.00fps, 4200kbps
  • MPEG-2 standard NTSC, 800x600, 29.97fps, 5000kbps
  • MPEG-2 standard PAL, 800x600, 25.00fps, 5000kbps
  • MPEG-2 standard NTSC, 1024x768, 29.97fps, 6000kbps
  • MPEG-2 standard PAL, 1024x768, 25.00fps, 6000kbps
  • HDTV, MPEG-2 standard NTSC, 1440x1152, 29.97fps
  • HDTV, MPEG-2 standard PAL, 1440x1152, 25.00fps
  • HDTV, MPEG-2 standard NTSC, 1920x1080, 29.97fps
  • HDTV, MPEG-2 standard PAL, 1920x1080, 25.00fps
  • AVI - XVID codec NTSC, 720x480, 29.97fps
  • AVI - XVID codec PAL, 720x576, 25.00fps
  • AVI - XVID codec NTSC, 640x480, 29.97fps
  • AVI - XVID codec PAL, 640x480, 25.00fps
  • AVI - XVID codec NTSC, 800x600, 29.97fps
  • AVI - XVID codec PAL, 800x600, 25.00fps
  • AVI - XVID codec NTSC, 1024x768, 29.97fps
  • AVI - XVID codec PAL, 1024x768, 25.00fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec NTSC, 720x480, 29.97fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec PAL, 720x576, 25.00fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec NTSC, 640x480, 29.97fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec PAL, 640x480, 25.00fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec NTSC, 800x600, 29.97fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec PAL, 800x600, 25.00fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec NTSC, 1024x768, 29.97fps
  • AVI - DIVX codec PAL, 1024x768, 25.00fps
• Support for large MPEG and AVI files, over 2GB and over 4GB, up to 1,000,000 TB (terabytes)
• The resolution of the output video file can vary from 128x128 to 4096x4096
• You can specify the frame rate of the output video file within the range from 15 to 60 frames per second, but we recommend that you use standard values to make it compatible with various hardware players: 24, 25, 29.97, 30
• You can burn output video files to a CD or DVD right away. You should remember that most hardware players cannot read files larger than 1 GB, so we recommend that you divide your projects into slide show groups not larger than 1 GB in size. There is no such limitation for viewing DVDs on the computer and files can be larger than 4 GB. You should also keep in mind that video files with high a bit rate are not always well played from CDs because they are not read fast enough. We recommend that you write such files to DVDs because they are read much faster than CDs

Slideshow Movie Producer requires Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or greater in order to function properly. Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies that make Windows-based computers ideal platforms for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX is commonly used in games and other applications requiring high-performance graphics rendering. If you do not have DirectX 9.0, you should download and install DirectX from http://www.microsoft.com/directx/

News:

Version 1.3 (April 09, 2006)

* Fixed: several minor bug

Version 1.2 (March 10, 2006)

+ Added: Full screen preview current picture
+ Added: Batch pictures rename
* Fixed: Wrong length of audio stream decoded via DirectShow interface with some codecs
* Fixed: Some AVI encoding capable codecs were wrongly detected as decoder only
* Fixed: No error were reported when saving MPEGs on disks without enough free space
* Fixed: several minor bug

Version 1.1 (27 January 2006)

* Fixed bug with slideshow preview without music files
* Fixed bug with thumbs size
* Fixed small bug with background color set

Version 1.0 (15 January 2006)

First public release

Frequently Asked Questions:

Download the latest version:
http://www.al-soft.com/smp/smp_setup.exe