Highlights
DVD slideshow GUI is an open source and free multi-purpose slideshow studio. Get it here!
DVD
slideshow GUI is packed with features:
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Export to YouTube, DVD video(PAL/NTSC 4:3 16:9), BluRay, 720p, 1080p,
dvd
audio, dvd chapters, dvd subtitles, avi, flash for web,
avisynthscript, storyboards, single images with
backgrounds.
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245
transitions, 100
Effects you can add to the entire slideshow, 35
Motion
Backgrounds(avs).
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Animate
your overlapping images using zoom, pan and rotate.
Add
photos with alpha channel and EXIF data.
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Add
videos(avi/avs), Power Point(ppt) and Impress(odp) to you slideshow.
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Add
and edit music, motion backgrounds, borders and subtitles.
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Make
your
own transitions, effects and motion backgrounds.
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Translated in Arabic, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese,
Portuguese, Polish, Brazilian, Russian and Spanish.
New
Video Tutorials
Getting
started making slideshows with DVD slideshow GUI. Watch it here.
Making
a DVD with menus containing several videos or slideshows: Watch it here.
Importing and
trimming video clips in DVD slideshow GUI: Watch it here.
Translators needed
DVD
slideshow GUI needs your help for translating DVD slideshow GUI to your
language.
The
easy way now to update/make new translations for DSG is by registering
at http://launchpad.net
Under
you new profile you need to set 'Your preferred languages' to your
language.
Go
to this site: https://translations.launchpad.net/dvdslideshowgui/trunk
Now
your
language should be among the languages available for translation and
you can start translating or update an existing translation.
There
is a tutorial on YouTube on how to translate in Launchpad here(but it
is not that hard): Here!
Thanks
for your support.
New
Powerful Video features
Avi
and avs (video) can now be
animated(Ken Burns), overlapped(negative
transition durations), overlayed(a transition for adding new slide on
top of the old one) and subtitled. A preview image will be visible in
the listcontrol/Slidesettings window/Animation window. In other words
videos can be handled like slides now whithout the previous
limitations.
It has been really difficult
and time consuming to add this stuff, but now DSG can be
used as a simple NLE when used with Avsp. Check out the tutorial on
trimming and cutting with Avsp here!
In the music listcontrol the right click menu has a new function
called 'Use Video Audio'. If this is checked music will fade in and out
around videoclips in the slideshow and if it is unchecked the music
will be played over video clips too and no audio from the videoclips
will be heard.New
video tutorial
Check out the new video tutorial on the basic functions here!
Version 0.9.3.3 Import of Power Point and Impress presentations
Import of Power Point(ppt) and Impress(odp) files are supported in DVD slideshow GUI. However Open Office is needed for the process, so first you must dowmload and install the free Open Office(I've only tested with v. 3.0 and v. 3.1). You can get it from here.
When DVD slideshow GUI is started it will find Open Office if it is installed in the default location or else you'll have to correct the path of Open Office in DVD slideshow GUI > Slideshow > External Applications. Now you should be able to import ppt and odp.
If you want to convert your ppt/odb presentation to a remote-controllable-dvd you need to install Gui for dvdauthor this can also be done by reinstalling DVD slideshow GUI and check Gui for dvdauthor in the installer and it will be installed automatically. When both programs are installed properly and the paths are set up in the External Applications window, all you have to do is DVD slideshow GUI > Files > 'Export to DVD Menus' and in 'Gui for dvdauthor' change the look of the menus to your liking and finally hit 'Burn DVD'.
Version 0.9.2.0 Going HD/Bluray...
1080p
and 720p, authoring and
burn as Bluray supported. And I hope with this version DVD
slideshow GUI will run on Vista without too much trouble.
Version 0.86C Match Slideshow to Audio Duration
This new function found in the 'Edit' menu, will calculate the duration of slides and transitions to the duration of the audio.
When
exporting to .gfd(Gui for Dvdauthor) some nice transitions has been
added between the Main menu and the Album and Photo menus.
Version 0.86 Paint Slide, more motion backgrounds and colour looks
Edit/Paint the selected slide in an external photo manipulation program like: like Paint.Net, Gimp, Photoshop, Mspaint etc.
Version 0.85 Burn to DVD
Through optional download of ImgBurn it is
now possible to burn from DVD slideshow GUI.
Version 0.82 More motion backgrounds and transitions
12 new motion backgrounds with endless moving graphics(no looping). They are made with Ffrend with Free Frame effects and exported as metaplugins which can be loaded with Avisynth and therefore used as backgrounds in DVD slideshow GUI. Inside DVD slideshow GUI just load the .avs files in the 'Backgrounds' folder.
The
Free Frame plugins can also be used as transitions. In the 0.82 version
12 new Free Frame transitions are
included.
Version 0.79 Motion backgrounds and new transitions and effects
Avi
and avs can be used as motion backgrounds under 'Presets'.
The
new transitions includes Bars transitions (Dynasty
style... lol), more jpg transitions and a
mirror transition. The new posteffect is a mirror effect which will mirror
the lower part of the image like in water or steel. Take a look at a
demo with motion background and mirror here.
Version 0.78 New: Overlapping animations and videos
By using negative transition durations now it's possible make overlapping animations and videos.
Version 0.74 Export of pro-slideshow dvd with menus to Gui for dvdauthor
DVD
slideshow GUI now can export
a .gfd file with:
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Main menu(animated) with
button access to:
- A rendered video slideshow with music,
texts and chapterpoints.
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Chaptermenus with
tumbnail-buttons to the video slideshow.
- One photo/video
pr. submenu, so you can flip through photos/videos with your remote.
It
also supports export of videos, so this is a nice way to make a
video(musicvideos/trailers) compilation.
Get
Gui for dvdauthor(GFD) here!
Just by
exporting your slideshow
in .gfd format and loading it up in Gui for dvdauthor, author it and
burn it - you will have a pro-looking slideshow DVD with menus:
Version 0.72 Storyboard
The
other new feature is exporting all images (with backgrounds and texts -
if wanted) as bmp images, this will come in handy if you are going to
set up a one image pr. menu in GUI for DVDauthor/Muxman.
In version
0.72 two new export funtions are added. One which
will let you export in a storybord layout html page with can be printet
from your browser with correct pagebreaks. Take a look at an example here.
This will
come in handy if you are working with animatics or just need to set up
a storyboard.(videos and animations will not be added).
Note: DVD slideshow GUI is a user interface for great free tools like Avisynth, Dvdauthor, HCenc, Media Player Classic, FFmpeg, Flvtool2, Mplex, Demux, mkisofs ect. and is coded in wxBasic. It comes as an installer with all the nessesary files included.
