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Maple slideshow builder

 Maple slideshow builder can help you create web animation applets or slideshow videos from pictures, mp3s and synchronized song lyric files.  More info can be found in  System Requirements ,  Screenshots and Known issues.   A detailed function table is provided below the demo applet. 

Video creation: Maple slideshow builder can not generate an avi file directly,  currently it uses image sequence as output. After project building and video exporting, a mencoder script is provided along with the generated image sequence. Users can convert  these images to video  with mencoder and this script, or use any other encoders.








Features

  1. An intuitive GUI.
  2. Popular transition effects
  3. Kenburns effect (pan and zoom)
  4. Photomontage 
  5. Pause/Resume in animation
  6. Two-line lyric subtitle  for karaoke
  7. A synchronized lyric editor.
  8. An  mp3 player
  9. Image filters














Antonio Vivaldi: Spring  (please install JRE 6 from java.com if you can not see the animation)              


Credits: 

Photographerer:  Tanakawho

Music performed by:  Free Tim (musopen project)


Functions

InputEffects

TransitionsoutputOthers
  • .mp3
  • .lrc (song lyric file)
  • .jpg
  • .png
  • .bmp
  • .svd (swing video file)
  • shadow text caption
  • Image filters
  • Kenburns effect (pan and zoom)
  • Photomontage combined with Kenburns effect.
  • Two-line synchronized lyric subtitle
  • cut
  • wipes
  • dissolve
  • fade
  • whiteflash
  • ripple-dissolve
  • pace
  • slideshow applet
  • raw image sequence for video creation
  • Image  sequence can be converted to avi/mpg/ogg/ flv/swf with  mencoder or ffmpeg.
  • To make a DVD-compatible mpeg2 video , the width/height of slideshow  should be 16:9
  • 3D effects can be added into the slideshow with POVRAY in post-processing phase.
















Download
Change log and download mirrors


Tutorial
Getting started with Maple slideshow builder


Help

Tips for related software

  1. How to make a synchronized (timed) song lyric file
  2. How to convert a sequence of images to a video
  3. How to insert a Java Applet in Googlesites with Google Gadget
  4. How to disable the popup Java console
  5. How to improve the quality of slideshow video on Youtube
  6. A list of good java desktop apps
  7. Detection of Java2D hardware acceleration
  8. Experimental support for video remixing

Tips for composing slideshow

  1. Compose a music slideshow
  2. Understand effects and transitions


Credits

Maple slideshow was built upon the following projects: 

  1. Jhlabs's Image filter lib (License: Apache)
  2. The famous javazoom's JLayer mp3 lib (License: LGPL)
  3. NSIS: Nullsoft scriptable install system (License: Common Public License version 1.0)
  4. DJSwing project  (License: LGPL) 
  5. The standard widget set  (License: Eclipse Public License Version 1.0)



Author

Steve Pan (stevpan@gmail.com)