Maple slideshow builder
 
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Maple slideshow builder

A freeware slideshow builder for web animation and MV/Karaoke. 

OSes supported: Windows Vista/Windows XP

It can help you make anniversary slideshow/music slideshow/simple documentary film and publish them on the web conveniently.  It can generate slideshow video as well as slideshow applet (Video creation requires mencoder or other encoders).

Screenshots,
System Requirements
Download and the Changelog
Features

Demo (please install JRE 6 from java.com if you can not see the animation)   

Note: If rendering artifacts happened when you scroll the page in IE or Firefox, you could help me by reporting this issue to Sun/Oracle. This issue affects all Java animation applets and JavaFX applets (not only my slideshows). Maybe it's not a Java bug, however, neither Mozilla nor Microsoft will modify their browsers to fit for a plugin. 

Workaround:  From my testing in Windows, only the Google chrome browser can avoid this problem:   http://www.google.com/chrome

Maple slideshow gadget


Credits: 

Photographerer:  Tanakawho

Music performed by:  Free Tim (musopen project)


Tutorial
Getting started with Maple slideshow builder


Articles on slideshow design

  1. Add timestamps to song lyric (synchronized song lyric file)
  2. Guidelines for slideshow design
  3. Improve the quality of slideshow video

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. JTattoo (License: commercial, free for freeware)



Author

Steve Pan (stevpan@gmail.com)