The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is an innovative format for merging still images, text, audio, video, and client-side transitions and effects into compellingRealSlideshow, comes from RealNetwork, is a free tool for creating slide shows from audio, images, and transitions between images.
The tool itself is timeline based, with tracks for images, voice, and music. You start by selecting project properties, including target resolution and data rates, and then start adding images. You can crop your images and set timeline duration via a slider bar that encodes the image in real time, letting you preview encoding quality. Then you choose from among nine transitions as well as pick the transition time for the next image.
RealSlideshow has a lot features, like
- Use a microphone to add voice narration to your pictures
- Record background music from a CD
- Easily put your slide show on the Web
- Choose from nine transitional effects between pictures
- Compress pictures to shorten download times
- Crop, rotate or flip your pictures
RealSlideshow is the ideal for
- Product demonstrations: real estate demos, online auctions
- Virtual classrooms: lectures, corporate training
- Photojournalism
- Narrated personal photo albums: vacations, weddings
Go to RealNetwork to download one for your presentation in the net,
Alex Wang
