Slideshow DVD Movie Making Software Reviews

Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder is a great home movie making software & slideshow movie maker. It easily combines your digital photos & videos into DVD slideshow movie and sweet home videos with premade movie themes, professional DVD menu templates, background music, 2D/3D transition effects, captions, and voice narrations. The real-time Preview function helps you control the timing precisely. The all-in-one authoring capability enables you to burn standard DVD Discs for watching on TV or convert to videos for iPhone, iPod, and PSP.

Pros:

• So easy to use, simplifies movie making process into only 4 steps
• Tons of transition and motion (Ken - Burns) Effects for movie making
• Powerful caption (subtitle) function and two subtitle tracks are available
• Support a wide range of input formats, including FLV from YouTube and other sites
• Burn VCD/SVCD/DVD/HD-DVD Discs directly
• Professional quality home movie

Cons:

• DVD Menu template customization needs to improve
• More free DVD menu templates needed
• Not so easy to specify caption effect
• Hot keys should be provided to be more friendly for home movie making users

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Windows Movie Maker 2 is a free DVD movie maker software coming with the operating system that gives you the tools to create, edit, and share home movies. Compile and edit a movie from video clips with drag-and-drop functionality. Add special effects, music, and narration with ease. Share your movie over the Web or master it to DVD media with third-party DVD tools. You can also save your movie to the DV tape in your camera.

Pros:

• Free slideshow movie making software
• Started to work and works fine under Windows XP Home and Pro
• Transition effects are not bad.
• Support narration and caption
• Good for slideshow movie making beginners

Cons:

• Limited transition effects for slideshow movie making
• Weak photo and slideshow video editing functions
• Slow while editing videos
• Too few supported input formats
• Supported output formats only include WMV and AVI
• Freeze a lot while importing videos
• Takes a long time to encode videos
• Big final movie size for short slideshow videos

In my opinion, Windows Movie Maker is a good program for beginners of slideshow movie making and it's a free slideshow movie making software. However, there are drawbacks, too. First, supported input and output formats are not enough so that compatibility is not so good. You may need another video converter to turn home movie created with this slideshow movie making software to the desired format. Second, its transition effects are far away from plenty. As you know, to make a wonderful home movie, transition effects play an important role. You need stunning effects to attract audience in slideshow movie making.

To conclude, Windows Movie Maker is very suitable for movie making beginners. But if you want to create professional and more customizable home movie, Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder is a better slideshow movie making software, with easy-to-use tabbed user interface. It comes with more stunning transition and Ken-Burns effects, as well as more choices to output and share your final movie making productions in universal Disc and video formats.

 

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