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Soundslides
Vendor: Soundslides, LLC
Purpose: Production tool for still image and audio Web presentations, favored by journalists
Figure 27.1
Soundslides is a basic but effective tool for creating slide shows rapidly.
Chapter 27 ■ Slide Show Creation 311
Description
If you need a really quick tool for putting together a slide show of photojournalistic
images and voiceover, Soundslides is the ideal solution. It makes SWF (Flash) files,
together with the HTML needed to display them. It does not come with any Web hosting
services but conveniently exports a folder so that you can upload the show to your
server without additional work. Although it is optimized to work with fewer than 200
images, there is no fixed upper limit.
A new professional version called Soundslides Plus introduces image movement in the
form of panning and zooming. It also includes image-only click-through slide shows,
individual transitions, built-in lower-third subtitles, and built-in thumbnail menus.
Comments
Soundslides is a basic utility, without any editing facilities for audio, but it produces
clean and attractive results very quickly. That is probably why journalists like it so much.