Multimedia Compilers

ProShow Gold allows you to easily create stunning photo slide shows for friends, family, business, or just for fun. You can add a custom sound track, pick from hundreds of transition effects, add sound effects, text captions, create DVDs, Video CDs and more. You can also create autorun CDs, self-contained executable slide shows in EXE format, web presentations and build Windows screensavers from your pictures. When creating CD or DVD slideshows, you have the option to include copies of the original images on the CD, allowing you to use it as a storage and presentation tool at the same time. The interface is easy to use and allows for simple drag and drop of your images and sound files. Other features include integrated image editing, audio/video trimming, timeline editing, special effects and more. ProShow Gold supports output in MPEG I/II, Windows Media, Quicktime, Flash and other formats.

Flash Album Creator lets you create your own digital photo slideshow and publish it as a Flash file on the web, or as standalone EXE file. The slideshow comes with a small navigation menu that the user can use to start/pause the slideshow. When used for web publishing, Flash Album Creator can also create the HTML page, including custom title and background. The result is an attractive Flash presentation of your images. The program can only handle images properly that are larger than 640x480 (most digital camera images are). Other can also be processed but may be stretched to fit.

InAlbum provides a fun and easy way to turn your digital photos into a stunning photo show, that can be exported to standalone EXE file, VideoCD to play on your TV or published to the web in Flash format. The program offers a variety of templates to choose from and you can also create your own, decorate them with clipart, buttons, photo frames and transition effects, speech bubbles, animated Flash objects, background music, sound events and much more. It makes it very easy to create unique photo presentations that look professional and are easy to distribute. In addition, you can print photos, make screensavers, wallpapers and burn directly to CD and create a DVD or VCD. The registered version also includes free online hosting for your album. Overall a quite impressive program to create unique photo shows, portable albums and more!

PowerPoint Slide Show Converter enables you to convert MS PowerPoint presentations (.ppt files) into a standalone EXE file, that can be run the presentation without the need to have PowerPoint installed. You can select transition effects between images, as well as a delay and optional soundtrack. The program can also convert the presentation to a screensaver (.scr) file.

GraFX Saver Pro makes it easy to create professional screen savers in record time. It supports over 20 image, video, and animation formats as well as all popular audio formats for background sound. Advanced features include support for over 120 special effects, complete control of size, position, transition, effect, display time, background as well as and caption for each image individually or globally and much more. Screen savers created are 100% royalty-free, and absolutely no programming is required. you can use GraFX Saver Pro for presentations, tutorials, displaying company logos, video screen savers, photo screen savers, and much more. Additional features include the ability to preview images, effects, and the screen saver itself through all aspects of the application (you can see the image/effect before applying), drag and drop support, advanced zoom capabilities, and many customization options. You can also use the program to create advanced trial version screen savers, complete with purchase links, trial period (customizable), unlock code generation, etc.

Multimedia Fusion lets you create professional-quality, interactive applications without having to write a single line of code. It provides a graphical interface to add events, buttons, actions etc. to a graphical frame (that you provide). Even though the program does not require any coding, we found it to be rather complicated to use without extensive reference to the help file.

ProShow allows you to easily create stunning photo slide shows for friends, family, business, or just for fun. You can pick from over 170 transition effects, text captions, create Video CDs (VCD, XVCD) and more. You can create autorun CDs for computer playback or TV (PAL, NTSC), self-contained executable slide shows in EXE format, and even build Windows screensavers from your pictures. When creating Video CD slideshows, you can also include copies of the original images on the CD, allowing you to use it as a storage and presentation tool at the same time. The interface is easy to use and allows for simple drag and drop of your images and sound files. Transition effects can be very easily added from a menu popup, using a click and select approach with instant preview.

PicturesToExe allows you to select images and compile them into a standalone EXE slideshow with transition effects, background music, personal comments and more. You can select images (JPG, BMP and GIF) from any combination of folders on your system and simply drag them into the slideshow. Options let you specify automatic or manual sequencing, timer interval, font and background properties, soundtrack (.mid, .wav, and .mp3 formats are supported) and more. Very easy to use and produces great results.

Motion Studio is an easy-to-use authoring software to create interactive multimedia EXEs, CD autorun dialog and publish to the Web. It provides a new, fast and affordable way for you to create high-impact interactive multimedia applications that you can present on your Web page (using the free plugin player) or distribute as EXE files. The program offers an integrated image editor for editing and image processing as well as 21 Built-in visual effects and a built in sound recorder. You can import and edit images from 15 image file formats, drag and drop images from your browser, and easily publish your creations to the web. Several samples are included. It takes some time to get going with the program, but it produces nice results.

Slide Show Pilot enables you to create standalone slideshows and screensavers simply from your photos, by simply dragging and dropping images into the interface, or select them from a folder. It includes more than 30 transition effects, audio synchronization, customizable startup screen, time limitation (trial functionality), customizable slideshow menus and more. The output can be customized in many ways and saved as standalone EXE file, so that it can be easily sent via email or offered over the web. In addition, you can also generate a basic HTML image gallery and slideshow albums.

ArtixMedia Menu Studio is a multimedia CD creation tool that lets you create CD menus and shells. You can add images and sounds to create multimedia programs and link to other pages, external files and internet links. The program can also be used to create slideshows and media presentations. It includes themes and objects that you can use in your designs and you can also import your own image files that can be used as buttons , backgrounds etc. Additional features include support for embedded video player, shapes and more.

Photo Slide Show enables you to convert your digital photos into a AVI video slideshow with transition effects. The program includes dozens of transition effects to choose from, which you can specify on a per-picture basis or randomly. The output can be previewed and then converted to DivX if you have it installed, or use any other available codec. You can also include background music using popular formats, including MP3, WAV, WMA and others.

Stardust Wallpaper Packager 2003 enables you to convert any image into a self-installing wallpaper executable. The use can simply double-click a wallpaper package that you created, and your image is instantly applied as the Windows desktop background. The program supports JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, PNG and BMP formats.

Media Maestro is an easy way to publish your images or digital photos as a standalone media presentation (.exe file) or a Windows screensaver. You can arrange images on a timeline, add Mp3 sounds as background music or sound effects and also add text for each image. The program includes various transition effects to choose from and an integrated image preview.

Dynamic-CD enables you to create a dynamic web site on CD. Unlike regular (HTML) CD compilations, Dynamic-CD includes a web server on the CD that allows you to use dynamic pages, driven by ASP and VB code, including use of MS Access database files to generate query and generate pages on-the fly without the need for an Internet connection. The program offers a wizard interface to select the files to be included and generates the complete CD image, ready to be burned with your CD burning software. Since the program is limited to ASP/VB code, the dynamic features are only available if your existing site uses ASP, or you need to create a ASP driven suite from scratch. To protect the source of your ASP scripts, Dynamic-CD offers a built-in encryption method, which however is not available during evaluation.

AutoPlay Media Studio enables you to create interactive multimedia applications, ranging from autorun CD/DVD-ROM menus and electronic business cards to demos, training applications, custom web browsers and more. It offers a WYSIWYG design environment and a variety of ready-to-use templates to get you started. You can simply drag and drop multimedia elements and position them, assign actions to launch applications, documents, web pages, send email and more, and even create custom scripts for advanced functionalities. Other features include integrated CD and DVD burning, multi-page projects, support for transparency, shadows and blending, spell checking and more. AutoPlay Media Studio includes a web browser component to create custom browser interfaces, as well as full support for Flash objects. The program is easy enough to be used by beginners and does not require any programming experience, however it also includes the advanced functions that more advanced users are looking for.

Wondershare Photo Story Platinum enables you to create photo albums and presentations that can be published to DVD, mobile devices (iPod, Zune, PSP, phones etc.), screensaver, standalone executable or Flash video. Simply create your photo albums, select a template, add effects and easily publish it in one or more formats. The program offers an array of ready-to-use templates and themes that you can use and customize, along with custom intro text, optional clipart decorations, background music and more. Other features include basic photo editing, animated effects, clipart library and more.

SWF Maestro EXE enables you to compile your Flash applications into a standalone executable that can be run on any Windows computer. It will check if the Flash player is installed and if not, it can download the player from Adobe or install a player supplied by you. The program can compile a single SWF file, or an entire directory structure including the Flash file and any additional resources. Your compiled Flash application application can run with fixed window size or in full-screen mode, and you can customize the right-click menu, application title and window appearance. Other features include support for transparency, .dat files to store data, custom icon and more. SWF Maestro EXE does not extract your files to a temporary directory when the compiled application is run but keeps them inside the executable at all times.

GoodLook enables you to compile image archives that include a simple image viewer with thumbnail display and options to save or print the current image. You can optionally add arrows, text clouds, web links and comments to each photo and also password protect images if needed. GoodLook can create image archives in EXE format, and also create simple image archives in a ZIP file (without viewer).

ImageMatics StillMotion PE enables you to create different types of multimedia slideshows from your digital images. You can add sound (background or per slide), titles, labels, transitions, pan and zoom, framing and more, and export the slideshow as Flash file, screensaver, self-playing executable, auto-playing CD, or as a complete web page. The program is easy to use, all you have to do is select the images to be included, optionally customize the transition effects and other options, and click a button to create a slideshow of your choice. Additional features include automatic sound synchronization, image cropping, compression and more.