What Slideshow Software?

[webbie]

Well as part of a project on another forum i am going to start making videos and slideshows but in order to do this i need some software that i can video edit and make slideshows on

i need something that is easy to use and preferable free so what ideas have you got?

webbie

 

[Wayland]

I use pictures to exe, simple interface, cheap licence and good results.

 

[rik_uk3]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/tips/firststory.mspx is free and will work with Vista. Ideal for uploading to sites like photobucket or youtube.

Windows moviemaker is free with XP and Vista, take a look, its supprising what you can do with it.

 

[forestwalker]

I'm a LaTeX fanboy, so I'll suggest Beamer (http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/) .

Pro: free, can do everything you actually should use (and then some), gives you a PDF-file, so there won't be the eternal question of "which verison of PowerPoint do you have?"

Con: you have to write markup with a text editor in a text file; if that sentence fills you with an unearthly dread LaTeX based stuff is not for you)

I use it a lot, producing presentations, student handouts and lecture notes from the same source file. You would have to learn a little (not much actually, and the docs are quite good) and there are ready packages for most computers.

 

[Wayland]

PTE creates a stand alone executable file which includes the images and soundtrack and can be used on any PC compatible platform.

No Acrobat needed , no powerpoint needed.

 

[forestwalker]

PTE creates a stand alone executable file which includes the images and soundtrack and can be used on any PC compatible platform.

No Acrobat needed , no powerpoint needed.

Depends on what you are doing. If it is just "show the pictures (on a PC)" then your solution is probably the easiest. LaTeX/Beamer can do that, and produce presentations type stuff.