X-ffDiaporama

X-ffDiaporama creates cinematic movies from images and various videos. Its main feature is that it manages to create slideshows by using photos and clips combined.

It's worth mentioning that being the portable version of ffDiaporama, this program is entirely portable, which means you can plug a USB stick to any computer and watch it work like a charm.

The program uses an approachable layout which brings forward all its vital features in the user's field of view. To simply create movies all you have to do is load images or videos, and you're pretty ready to work.

The formats accepted by X-ffDiaporama are plenty and is unlikely you'll find some that won't be supported by the application. Among many others, the main ones are BMP, GIF, PNG, and JPG for pictures, and MPEG, MKV, WMV, and AVI for movies. We can safely assume there won't be any compatibility issues when you attempt to upload any of your clips in X-ffDiaporama.

Users can set the program to remember the last known position and the last output folder used. Other configuration parameters include setting the framerate and adjusting the image smoothing. It's surprising that you can modify the framerate in case your computer is too slow, but it has a hard-coded upper limit of only 18fps, which is a bit underwhelming for today's computers, when framerates easily go past 60fps.

Another useful feature is the '1920 x 1088 to 1920 x 1080' cropping mode that helps users with non-standard 16:10 monitor formats. In case the PAL video standard doesn't suit you, it can be changed to NTSC. Media can be rendered using three standard MPEG-4 based video codecs: two Apple supported H.264 versions, one for phones and the other for desktops, and the third being a Windows-based DivX MPEG-4 codec.

Although it does a fairly simple job of putting pictures and clips together, X-ffDiaporama offers a flexible and effective way to do this.