Photo slideshow software
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A photo slideshow software is a computer software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

 application used to display a range of digital photos, images and videos in a predefined order. In most cases the output file is a standard video file or an executable file which contains all the sound and images for display.

Typical features

A Slideshow application includes some major functions: image editing (including enhancement, cropping, rotating), transition and Ken Burns Effect
Ken Burns Effect
The Ken Burns effect is a popular name for a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production from still imagery.The name derives from extensive use of the technique by American documentarian Ken Burns...

s, background music soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

,and other information ex. name ,date etc narration and captions.

Output

Output files are normally to DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 (MPEG-2
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission...

) or CD ROM but some applications allow for encoding to formats supported by cell phones (3GP
3GP
3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones....

), gaming devices (MP4), Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and Apple Macintosh.

See also

  • Slideshow
    Slideshow
    A slide show is a display of a series of chosen information or pictures, done for artistic or instructional purposes. Slide shows are conducted by a presenter using an apparatus, such as a carousel slide projector, an overhead projector or in more recent years, a computer running presentation...

  • Photodex
    Photodex
    Photodex is a software company specializing in the digital imaging market. They are primarily known for the ProShow product line, which is photo slideshow software....

  • PicturesToExe
    PicturesToExe
    -PicturesToExe:PicturesToExe is a photo slideshow software application developed by WnSoft Ltd., and available for Microsoft Windows.-Overview:...

  • Presentation software
  • PhotoDVD
    PhotoDVD
    PhotoDVD is a photo slideshow software application developed by VSO Software that runs on Windows.-Overview:The software is used to create photo slideshows on DVD and for exporting on YouTube and Facebook....

  • Non-linear editing system
    Non-linear editing system
    In video, a non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing digital audio workstation system which can perform random access non-destructive editing on the source material...


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