Photo to Movie

Photo to Movie can turn your digital photos into spectacular QuickTime movies Photo to Movie can turn your digital photos into spectacular QuickTime movies. It will literally change the way you look at your photos forever. Photo to Movie will gently zoom and pan across your photos, blending them together while moving from one photo to another. Your photos will come alive in a way that will engage and impress your audience. Forget the traditional static slide show -- use Photo to Movie to bring your photos alive, focusing attention on the important part of the photo

Photo to Movie is easy to use. Simply drag photos from iPhoto or the Finder and drop them into Photo to Movie. You can also drag QuickTime VR movies and make movies by moving through the QuickTime VR movies. Photo to Movie will assign preset motion paths, key frames, and transitions to each photo. Drag music in from the Finder to the timeline.

Add some titles to describe your movie. Then press preview to see how your movie will look and sound. Choose your export format and save it to a QuickTime movie. The QuickTime movie is ready to use in iMovie or iDVD. Photo to Movie also works perfectly with DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut, Roxio Toast 6 Titanium or any other software that utilizes QuickTime movies.

Drag your music from the Finder into the timeline and you have a soundtrack to add that extra audience attachment to your movie. You can adjust the timing of the music using the timeline and cross fade music pieces by overlapping them.

Use the waveform to synchronize motion with specific sounds within your music. The inspector shows you all of the information about the selected piece of audio. And during exporting you have the choice of any audio format QuickTime supports. Record your own voice narration too.

Form complex, multi-segment motion paths, zooming and rotating your photo along the way. Unlike other similar applications, Photo to Movie allows you to set the motion of the duration along the entire motion path, not just the individual segments.

This allows you to have a steady motion speed over the entire path. You can also choose to set motion durations on a segment by segment basis. The keyframes define the motion path, the zoom, and the rotation. You can easily spin in your entire photo by setting the rotation angle to be greater than 360 .

Once you have created your movie, you can export it to a variety of formats. Export it to the e-mail, web format, or CD-ROM for immediate use. Export it to DV Stream for use in iMovie (just drag the movie into iMovie's shelf). Export it to Full Quality DV or a custom format for use directly in Final Cut, iDVD, or DVD Studio Pro.

Photo to Movie also includes a revolutionary algorithm for optimizing each frame of the movie to nearly eliminate flicker from aliasing when showing the movie on a television.

You can also choose your output format (standard 4:3 or widescreen 16:9), and the background color to be used when the key frames go out of bounds of their photos. You can even set the background to transparent so that the movie can be composited on top of another background.