As much as I'm not a huge fan of Adobe, if it works I'll buy it. If all else fails I'll take a look at the newly offered Premier from Adobe. I've downloaded a few others but they look a bit 'low level' for my needs but I'll take a look anyway. I'd rate it above FotoMagico ($149) and at $199 you get a very competent photo management application to boot. It still has limited audio (one 'main' track per show and then secondary tracks attached to slides) but I must say I'm getting pretty excited. FWIW Aperture Ken Burns Effect interface is quite similar to Fotomagico and I always thought that was FM's most elegant feature. The movie exports don't appear to suffer the same jerkiness which afflicts FCPE - perhaps a reflection of the higher res pic being used directly from the Aperture library.

I have Aperture and must say my quick look at the advanced slide show features look promising.

iMovie and iPhoto are probably fine for showing a few snaps to relatives but they're not Pro level tools. Select a slide midway through the show and the sounds starts from the beginning.įCPE is good but the output quality is poor when using keyframe motion with overlapping transitions. It's previewing - where the audio is not synced with the sound - is a deal breaker for me.

I'm a professional AV producer and it's just a shame this sort of software is so sadly lacking.įotomagico looks good but fails on a number of points. It just seems the Slide Show programs are poorly conceived or executed. I'm in a similar position to most of the posters (except I didn't come from Windows).

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