ffDiaporama

Viewing a video slideshow is more comfortable than switching between photos manually, especially on mobile devices. Advanced video editors are too complicated for such slideshows, but you can find numerous applications which make it quite easy to create them. A good example is ffDiaporama. It provides a vast range of customization options, for transition effects and duration, slide appearance and much more. Also, the software allows you to export your videos in various formats, for a wide range of devices and media players.

ffDiaporama is distributed under the GNU General Public License, which means that you don't have to pay for the program. It works on all popular Windows platforms and it takes about one or two minutes to install it. The software doesn't ask for any additional tools and its hardware requirements are modest.

Creating a video slideshow is a simple procedure. Importing a series of images and clicking a button is sufficient to render the video, but you can do much more along the way. Imported images are displayed as thumbnails in a timeline, on the top portion of the interface and you can preview the slideshow with the software's embedded player, on the lower half of the window.

Slides can be customized individually, on a separate window. You can resize and move images anywhere on a slide, by using a series of counters or by clicking and dragging in a preview area. It is also possible to increase or decrease a slide's duration, change the picture's opacity, set a zoom level, add borders and more. Besides images, you can insert blank slides as well, if you wish to add titles. Furthermore, the software allows you to retrieve maps from the Internet and insert them into your slides. You can opt for satellite, terrain or hybrid maps or for road maps.

ffDiaporama provides several output options, which can be found on a ribbon menu. Videos can be rendered in lossless formats, web formats and for media players or portable devices. These options will display similar configurations windows, on which you can choose a device type and model and make other settings.