Family and vacation photos are unique mementos. If you want to present them to a wider audience, however, the good old photo album quickly reaches its limits. A visually appealing photo presentation on your TV or video projector is more contemporary and sophisticated, especially if it is visually enhanced and accompanied by background music. ffDiaporama [1] lets you conjure up not only an attractive slideshow from conventional digital photos in an instant, it also archives it in many formats if needed.

The ffDiaporama software is found in the repositories of almost all the major distributions, but the version is not always up to date. Thus, it's a good idea to visit the project site to see whether newer packages exist: The developers also regularly provide the latest version for older operating system versions. Additionally, extensions such as clipart or background textures for ffDiaporama are also available.

Settings

After the install, you will find a program launcher by the name of Movie creator ffDiaporama in the Entertainment media or Multimedia submenu. The software then takes you to a split screen: In the upper part are four horizontal tabs on the left that each form a menu structure with a different function buttons directly below. Below these buttons, you will see an empty panel that spreads across the entire width of the window; this is where you later drop the photos for the slideshow into a timeline. Bottom left is a small movie player that plays the new presentation at the press of a button.

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