NEW! Import photos and video clips
directly from a camera
Enjoy the advantage of the non-stop workflow from creation to output now with direct import from cameras, hard drives and data storage devices (e.g. SD cards, USB sticks, external disk drives, etc.).
Transfer your images directly to your computer and into your slideshow without time-consuming searches. Includes helpful color highlighting of various media types, dates and times.
Create slideshows automatically
You'd like to turn your photo memories into slideshows more often, but simply don't have the time? Need a personalized gift quickly? Or would you like to give your party guests a video of the evening's festivities to take home with them?
Let the unique slideshow automation impress you and your audience.
Use the 15 style templates included in the package to achieve impressive results in record time.
What you can do with slideshow software:
Create videos with lots of effects
NEW! Transition effects transform photos into films
An especially important part of any slideshow is to have eye-catching animated transitions between the photos and video clips.
- 10 completely new transitions
- All of the new transition effects are now in high resolution and automatically adjusted to all formats (e.g. 16:9 or 4:3)
- Quickly find the right transition in the simplified folder setup.
- Smoother preview of the most commonly used transitions
Background for photos in portrait format, intros and chapter dividers.
Create colorful backgrounds just the way you want.
Ideal for thematic separators with text that fade in between individual scenes of your slideshow (different holiday destinations, for instance) or as background to replace black edges around portrait photos.
PLUS! More than 31 customizable graphic templates.
Design slideshows with animated titles and texts
Titles for opening/closing credits, chapter markers, and subtitles can be entered directly into the preview window and positioned precisely.
Assign individual colors, sizes, fonts and effects to letters, words, or lines of text. Or create impressive 3D title animations & captions from a variety of text styles.
You can also take the metadata for the date the photo was taken and add that to the image title.
Create slideshows with music, sounds
and commentary
The right soundtrack for your story
The way image and sound harmonize with each other is essential to the effect your pictures will have.
Can't find the right background music on CD or MP3? No problem. Simply choose songs from 15 international genres all in professional production and sound quality. You'll be sure to find the right soundtrack for any occasion, from vacation and parties to nature and atmospheric sound creations.
Create background music automatically in the slideshow
The integrated MAGIX Soundtrack Maker creates music soundtracks according to your requirements. Simply set the mood that matches the emotional progression of your slideshow (action, tension, fun...) and watch as the program creates a personalized soundtrack for you from a large sound archive.
Burn your slideshows to CD and DVD
and watch them on TV
Interactive menus for DVD players (integrated disc authoring)
Add the finishing touch to your slideshows with animated CD/DVD menus just like the ones on store-bought DVDs complete with scenes from your own pictures as backgrounds, intro videos, music playback, animations, interactive buttons, etc.
Now including a variety of customizable templates for personalized CD/DVD menus for any occasion
NEW! More than 10 new animated disc menus to make the presentation of your slideshow on TV even more impressive (30 templates in total).
NEW! Create virtual DVDs for your home network
These days, with the help of home networks, you can effortlessly use all of your media throughout the house by connecting your TV and other devices to your computer through WLAN. You can access your media collection in any room and no longer have to waste time transferring your media to DVD or storage devices.
Practical! Enjoy the advantages of being able to save your multimedia slideshows as virtual DVDs with interactive menus and all the other features you would find on a real DVD. If you want to burn your projects to DVD later, you can do it easily without any extra encoding.
NEW! Create slideshows for homepage software
(Media Player Export)
Direct export of multimedia slideshows as Media Players (Flash® technology) for convenient viewing on an Internet browser or embedding in websites (export includes HTML source code).
Choose between a video file with all effects or skim through as freely navigable single media files.
Note: Output in Flash®-format requires a compatible MPEG-4 codec and initial activation directly from the program (RRP $9.99). For detailed information please refer to "Technical Data".
Upload your videos to YouTube, Facebook,
Flickr and your free Online Album
Use the free Online Album with password protection
Impress others with photos and graphics and present your most beautiful moments and creations to the world with your very own album website. Also available as an HTML 2.0 version. (View example)
With flexible settings and a vast selection of additional options:
Choose between a gallery or a high-quality slideshow display with zooms, music and effects, integrate video players, a visitor counter, download and Facebook links, enrich your recording with background music or give certain people guest access. Includes iPhone and iPod support.
Download templates and effects for your slideshow
Catooh – The Online Content Library is your online media archive Whatever it is you are looking for – photo material on a specific theme, menu templates, fades, background music or sound effects – this program provides a direct connection to a vast library that will help you complete your project with exactly the right material.
