Best Photo Slideshow Software: September 2011

Want to create an mp4 photo slideshow movie, immediately bringing your still photos to life? Here comes the solution. Following this guide, you will be able to easily make slideshows of your favorite photos, decorated with stuning transitions, background music, album themes, cliparts and more, and output photo slideshows as MP4 movie files. Then you can easily transfer the .mp4 slideshow video to your mobile devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, BlackBerry, Zune, Creative Zen, etc and watch it on the go. No still photos or pictures, but dynamic HD slideshow!

The only software you need is MP4 Photo Slideshow Maker. It is very easy to create mp4 photo slideshow using it.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, specify transition effect/duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

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In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

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Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu of MP4 Photo Slideshow Maker to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose MPG Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (MPEG-4 Movie), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.