What is Photostage?
Create a slideshow from your digital photos and videos on Windows and apply effects such as fade, crossfade, zoom and much more. Burn your slideshow to DVD for playback on TV, or as a standalone video file for enjoying on web and portable devices. Add a soundtrack, narrative or text captions to further enhance your memories. Touch up or enhance your photos and videos with ease.
Transition Effects:
- Panning and zooming effects let you bring your photos to life.
- Fade transition effect gives your slideshow that professional touch.
- Preview the effects in real time.
- Customize the duration of the effect.
Photo Optimization:
- Fine tune brightness, saturation and color for photos and video.
- Add your favorite photos with a click of a button.
- Crop, rotate and flip photos easily and preview the changes in real time.
- Add text captions to individual slides.
- Add video clips for a complete slideshow presentation.
Audio Tools:
- Add music tracks to your slideshow.
- Record narrations with the click of a button.
- Import pre-recorded narrations
Share:
- Burn to DVD and watch in your living room on your TV.
- Show off your latest pics and clips on PSP, iPod, iPhone, 3GP mobile phone or Pocket PC.
- Explore the most advanced way to burn HD DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs.
- Output video files and share your creation with more friends on computer or through Internet.
Supported Formats:
Input:
- Image: bmp, gif, jpg, jif, jiff, jpeg, exif, png, tif, tiff, psd, tga, pcx, jp2, wmf, ico
- Audio: wav, mp3, mp2, mpga, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, aac, wma, dct, au, aiff, ogg, raw, msv, dvf, vox, cda, atrac, gsm, dss, sri, shn, dss, msv, wmv and many more.
- Video: avi, mpeg, wmv, divX, Xvid, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mp4, mov, asf, vob, ogm, .3gp, H.264, RM and many more.
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Comments and Reviews
It's one of few programs that I'm really glad that I bought. Tried all of open source alternatives but Photostage is way better: advanced features: such as zooming, panning etc are very easy to add, project file sizes are minimal and (what was most important for me) it is fast. There are many things that I miss but it's still best software for me to make custom slideshow from holiday pictures/videos;)
The features made it really quick and easy to make a nice slideshow - but the buggy UI made any adjustments irritating, and sometimes impossible. Scroll bars jumping halfway through the slideshow every time I select a slide, edits that end up changing a bunch of unrelated settings that then cannot be changed back, an undo feature that sometimes undid too much and other times too little... it made little mistakes with the output inevitable. And then, when I returned to fix the mistakes, I was no longer able to export the fixed copy because of the purchase nag screen. They need to fix the usability issues before they can demand money, or it feels like extortion.