DVD Album Creator 3 provides support on pan and zoom effect, as well as incorporate titles and credits to every slideshow in the DVD.

Together with other features of DVD Album Creator, you can easily turn your photos into a Hollywood movie style DVD.

Features at a Glance

We briefly present selected features in DVD Album Creator that facilitate you to turn your favorite photos into a Hollywood style movie.

Introductory Video

Just enter your text and make a few clicks, DVD Album Creator can help you to compile an introductory video. Similar to the Copyright statement or Warning in commercial DVD, this introductory video will be played automatically once the DVD is inserted into the player. A typical sample of introductory video is shown below:

In addition to text, you can add a photo slideshow to the introductory video.

Slideshow Selection Menu (Main Menu)

DVD Album Creator facilitates you to group pictures of different nature into a slideshow. Each slideshow can have its own names, number of photos, etc. To enable the audience to select the playback of the desired slideshow, DVD Album Creator will automatically generate the slideshow selection menu. Various options are available for you to customize the DVD menu.

At any time during the DVD playback, audience can invoke the slideshow selection menu simply by pressing the 'Main Menu' button in the DVD remote control unit.

A sample slideshow selection menu is shown below:

Menu for Individual Slideshow (Root Menu)

Each slideshow will have her own slideshow menu. Similar to the slideshow selection menu, various options are available for you to customize the menu layout. At any time during the DVD playback, audience can invoke the slideshow menu simply by pressing the 'Root Menu' button in the DVD remote control unit.

A sample slideshow selection menu is shown below:

Scene Selection Menu (Chapter Menu)

Choosing 'Chapters' in the slideshow menu will bring the audience to the Scene Selection Menu. DVD Album Creator will automatically divide the pictures into different chapters. Audience can use the DVD remote control unit to navigate the chapter menu, and start the playback at the desired chapter.

A sample chapter menu is shown below:

In addition, during the playback, audience can also use the 'Prev' and 'Next' button in the DVD remote control unit to display the previous chapter or skip to the next chapter.

Title Sequences

Each slideshow can have her own title sequences. In commercial movie, it may:

• Show the most important members of the production e.g. director, producer, major actors, guest stars
• Give an introduction or background of the story
• Introduce the date/time, situation, location, etc

Below is a sample title sequences created by DVD Album Creator:

Different display themes (e.g. typewriting the letter one by one) are available to display the title sequence. In addition, various options are provided so that you can make your favorite title sequences to suit your needs.

Slideshow with Subtitles

Similar to most of the commercial movies, you can incorporate subtitles to your slideshows. DVD Album Creator supports creating up to 8 streams of subtitles. Audience can use the DVD remote control unit to switch between different streams of subtitles, or even disable the subtitles to view the original picture without being spoiled by the input text.

With our simple yet elegance interface, you can use the Exif data (a basic feature in digital cameras), enter your own text or even both of them in the subtitles. Below are some screen samples showing different subtitles streams in a picture:

Pan and Zoom (Ken Burns Effect)

Ken Burns Effect is the technique to slow pan and zoom from a subject to another. This is named after the award-winning American documentary filmmaker Kenneth Lauren Burns, who used this technique to bring still images to life in his documentaries.

In DVD Album Creator, more than 10 pan and zoom styles, including pan, zoom in/out, diagonal zoom, etc are available for you to enrich the playback of your digital images. You can also customize different durations and zoom in/out percentages for your pictures.

End Credits

In commercial movie and TV program, closing credits (or "end credits") are usually displayed at the end, showing the complete production crew and cast. Sometimes closing credits may also describe the ending of the movie in words, or contain afterthoughts.

DVD Album Creator supports appending end credits to slideshow. Different slideshow can have different end credits. Similar to title sequences, simply enter the text, select a theme (such as scrolling) and adjust the appearance, and DVD Album Creator will do the rest for you. Below shows a sample end credits screen:

Anti-Flickering Filter (3.1+)

Anti-flickering filter is added to reduce flickering when the compilation is played in some televisions.

Pause After Each Chapter (3.1+)

This new option is introduced such that the DVD player will paused once a chapter has been displayed, and wait until you press the 'Play' or 'Next' key on the remote control unit.

Support on Windows Vista (3.2+)

Prior to version 3.2, DVD Album Creator in Windows Vista may encounter some display problems e.g. incorrect aspect ratio in photo properties panel, strange color in photo pane. These problems are now solved in version 3.2.

New Pan and Zoom Filter (3.2+)

Occasionally we receive request to improve the sharpness of pan and zoom pictures. In version 3.2, we incorporate another pan and zoom filter that will produce less blur picture (but may cause flickers in some TV) during pan and zoom. You may test and use the filter that produces the best effect in your settings.

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