Create complex slide shows with Still Life
Dec 11, '02 08:06:27AM
Contributed by: bluehz
I was looking for some software to create some animated slideshows (ala QT) out of a series of still images. I tried everything I could find at VersionTracker and MacUpdate; heck, I even have LiveSlideshow and never could find anything that felt comfortable or offered all the features I wanted.
Then quite by accident I ran across Still Life from Granted Software. This is listed nowhere on the major Mac software pages, but it beats everything I tried. It is "donationware". The features are:
- Animate pans, zooms, etc., and not just point A to point B per image, but you can do as many as you want Pt A > Pt B > Pt C, etc.
- Exports QTMovie or DV Stream
- Supports NTSC and PAL formats
I am very happy I discovered this app and highly recommend it - I just don't know why it's not better publicized! There really is no web page for it. You can get version 1.2.1 off the Granted Software products page; it's a 376K download.
[Editor's note: This is really an amazing little application. Had I known about it a month or two ago, it would have saved me quite a bit of time on an iMovie project I was working on ... and I have another one coming up where I can put it to the real test, but it looks quite good based on a 10 minute usage session this morning.]
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