Maple slideshow builder Review

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Maple slideshow builder is a freeware app for making music slideshow and karaoke. It can convert a set of pictures, MP3s, and text lyric files into: a slideshow applet, an executable slideshow file. Slideshow videos can be generated manually through external encoders such as mencoder. The executable sideshow file runs in any OS with J2SE6 support. Text captions can be added to each picture in Maple slideshow builder too.

Features:
Image enhancement for making low bitrate web videos (e.g. Youtube video)
A built-in gadget for making synchronized song lyric file
A built-in anti-flickering filter for Kenburns animation.
Kenburns animation (panning and zooming)
An optional mp3 player
Two-line lyric display for karaoke
Popular transition effects
Image filters

Recommended hardware specs

Intel Pentium4 (1.7GHz) or higher
512M memory or higher
Mouse wheel
Multi-core or hyper-threading CPU is recommended as Maple slideshow builder can take advantage of multi-threading to process image/lyric/mp3.

If your hardware is lower than the recommended specs, you should keep the dimension of slideshow bellow 480x360.

Free Hard Disk Space:

30MB for cache files
2GB for video creation (optional)

Software:
J2SE 6 or higher is required.
J2SE6 Update 10 or higher is strongly recommended.

Restrictions:

Due to the memory limitation, do not add extremely large photos (e.g. 4000x3000) into the slideshow. If you had to, you should use maple.jar and launch it with the following command: "java -Xmx512M -jar maple.jar"

major bugfixes and major feature enhancements

Java2 SE 6

Please contact Maple slideshow builder publisher, GiMeSpace if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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