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| DVD Pictureshow 2.0 Deluxe | 
 enlarge | From: ULead Systems
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $19.99
You Save: $30.00 (60%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 11971
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 2
MPN: a61420118
Model: 2131301
UPC: 756405014325
EAN: 0756405014325
ASIN: B0001MBCFE
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easily organize and share photos with friends and family | | • | Deluxe suite offers 2 great products for 1 low price | | • | Find, edit, and organize photos with Photo Explorer | | • | Create and burn homemade photo slideshows with PictureShow | | • | 70+ year-round holiday DVD menu templates included |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
DVD PictureShow 2 Deluxe gives professionals a new way to produce professional DVDs with a minimal learning curve. Now you can capture & organize photos, videos and music in just a few steps. Create small or large-scale projects that look like professional Hollywood productions! Features Photo Explorer 8.0 and DVD PictureShow 2. Scan image CDs and create virtual CD catalogs that you can browse -- even without the CD in the drive Powerful editing tools - Remove red-eye, adjust picture quality and add special effects to photos Archive original photos, audio, videos and slideshow projects for future use -- Make your memories last forever!
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| Customer Reviews:
Cannot synchronize slideshow length to soundtrack length. August 10, 2004
For the price, Ulead's DVD PictureShow 2 is a fairly competent program. However, there is a reason why consumers may consider programs like Photodex's ProShow 2 a better choice. ProShow can automatically synchronize the length of a slideshow to match the total length of its accompanying soundtrack; DVD PictureShow cannot. DVD PictureShow does not calculate what slide is reached when a piece of music ends. Instead, the user must preview the slideshow and then through painstakingly manual trial-and-error, adjust the length of the slideshow to match the length of its accompanying soundtrack. If a DVD PictureShow slideshow is longer than its soundtrack, the last song in the soundtrack will repeat itself until the end of the slideshow.
If you can live with this problem (and it's kind of a hard problem to live with), DVD PictureShow 2 has slightly more functionality than ProShow. DVD PictureShow users can burn discs in VCD, SVCD, and DVD format (ProShow users are limited to VCD); add video clips to the slideshow and audio annotations to any picture; print CD labels and show indices; and specify at a mouse-click where music transitions take place on the slideshow's storyboard (users must manually calculate custom music transitions in ProShow). However, ProShow has 280 transition effects, compared to PictureShow's 42 transition effects.
Users who are comfortable with sound editing will find DVD PictureShow 2 acceptable. Most other users should look at other products first.
Sounds good on paper April 19, 2004
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I purchase this program hoping I can put together a photo slideshow as a farewell present for a coworker and also as a slideshow gift for my niece. I tried the trial version first. It has very easy menus and I was able to create my first slideshow in 20 minutes. It worked great in my home DVD. I decided to purchase the program the next day. After finalizing the DVD I decided to try out the slideshow at work. It didn't work in two DVD's at my work place. I tried at two other people DVD's, still nothing. I went back and I tried different setup menus. After wasting more than 25 CD's I decided to call the company. The technical support recommendation: purchase a similar DVD so my niece can play the slideshow!!!!! What a waste of time and money!! The program sounds good on paper, does not deliver. Don't waste your money!
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