Creating a slideshow is no longer a difficult task, but a lot of computer usersare still looking for dedicated software solutions supposed to make the whole thing easier.

Extra Photo to Video Converter falls in this category and tries to tackle the issue of building slideshows with a simple approach: you just need to make a few settings and the slideshow is created on the fly.

The interface may seem a little bit old-fashioned, but it’s just designed to let you do all the things quick and easy. There is a preview window on the right to see how your image will look in the final video, a long list of effects, as well as a file list to choose the order your images will make their entrance.

The next tab concerns the background music, again with a few options, this time regarding the part you wish to introduce in the slideshow.

Last but not least you’ll see the video corner where you have to choose between four formats, AVI, MPEG, WMV and RealMedia, choose the video size, the framerate and the audio frequency. Write down the path to the output file and you’re ready to go.

It may all sound like milk and honey, but it’s not. The application moves very slow when adding new files in the slideshow, and it takes way too much time to process one, which could seriously get you in trouble on older computers.

All in all, Extra Photo to Video Converter is far from a top pick and since there are so many other freeware alternatives on the market, it’s better to look somewhere else.