Maple Slideshow Builder

A presentation without any kind of visual support is incredibly difficult to deliver, or at least grab everyone’s attention, regardless of its purpose. A presentation can even be a simple pictures slideshow, and you can easily create one with specialized applications like Maple Slideshow Builder.

The application comes with a neat advantage. You can go ahead and check out the set of features from the moment it’s downloaded, because no installation is required. As such, it can easily be stored on an USB flash drive to use on other computers as well. What’s more, the target PCs health status remains intact, because registries are not tampered with.

When it runs, you’re greeted by a pleasant looking interface created with custom elements that make accommodation pretty simple, even for beginners. Several tabs let you manage important areas, such as layout, slideshow, and subtitle options.

The application uses pictures of formats like JPG, PNG, and BMP in order to bundle them up in a slideshow. You can import MP3 files and even lyrics, which you can easily edit. The process might seem a bit complicated at first, but provides enough flexibility.

A large preview area lets you get a view of image files in better details. A list shows them all along with several details and options like filter, transition, animation, duration, timestamp, caption, and font size. What’s more, all of these values can be edited on the spot, with various built-in presets.

General slideshow options give you the possibility to specify whether or not playback starts automatically, what background color to use, as well as the quality of the whole video. Subtitles can be fitted with shadow and other elements, custom font, color, as well as style. The output is a HTML web applet you can include in web projects.

Bottom line is that Maple Slideshow Builder is not your average slideshow builder, although it sure looks like one. The process can seem a little confusing to some, because of rather poorly-detailed element descriptions. However there are an abundance of preset effects and filters, as well as areas you can modify, making this program worth a try.