14 DAY TRIAL // Apimac, a well-known Mac software developer, has announced a new release of Slideshow for Mac OS X, a tool used to create slideshows that can be distributed as movie files or freestanding royalty-free presentation.
More specifically, Apimac Slideshow allows Mac users to quickly and easily create slideshow presentations and portfolios that can be distributed as freestanding programs for Mac and Windows, or as movie files optimized for YouTube, CD-ROMs, the Web, iTunes and mobile devices, including Apple’s own iPods and iPhone.
“Apimac Slideshow lets you personalize a presentation, adapting it to the most varied needs,” Apimac explains.
“You can create presentations and slideshows that can be manually or automatically controlled and personalize the presentation with colored backgrounds, use multiple soundtracks and show images and movies along with their names and custom text,” the company adds.
According to the software vendor, Slideshow is a must-have for anyone who wants to distribute presentations or collections of movies and images on DVDs, CD-ROMs or any other digital medium, as it can handle a wide range of graphic and multimedia formats including
- QuickTime Movies - QuickTime VR Movies - MP3 - MPEG - AutoDesk Animator (FLC), AIFF, AU, WAVE, DV, - OpenDML audio files - and all the main graphic formats such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, MacP
Apimac Slideshow 9.6 Build 95 features updated and revised QuickTime exportation formats to support iPad and iPhone 4, as well as improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Apple Remote support is also updated to work on the newest version of Apple’s desktop operating system.
User interface improvements, fixed known bugs, and various code optimizations round up the list of changes introduced in Apimac Slideshow 9.6.
According to the developer, minimum requirements for Mac freestanding slideshows call for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 512MB RAM (1GB recommended).