Maple Slideshow Builder 1.01

Maple slideshow builder is a freeware app for making music slideshow and karaoke. It can convert a set of pictures, MP3s, and text lyric files into: a slideshow applet, an executable slideshow file. Slideshow videos can be generated manually through external encoders such as mencoder. The executable sideshow file runs in any OS with J2SE6 support. Text captions can be added to each picture in Maple slideshow builder too.

Features:

• Image enhancement for making low bitrate web videos (e.g. Youtube video)
  


• A built-in gadget for making synchronized song lyric file
  


• A built-in anti-flickering filter for Kenburns animation
  


• Kenburns animation (panning and zooming)
  


• An optional mp3 player
  


• Two-line lyric display for karaoke
  


• Popular transition effects
  


• Image filters
  

Requires Java Runtime Environment. Get It Here.

What´s New in version 1.01:

• Ripple-dissolve, whiteflash, pacing wipe and several displacement transitions were added.
  


• The default Lookandfeel has been changed to "Macwin".
  


• GUI layout and menu items were redesigned.
  


• Awt components were replaced with lightweight Swing components.
  


• A new logo was made.
  


• Integration with system tray was implemented.
  


• The new rendering hint "GASP" in J2SE 6 was applied to improve text rendering of True-type fonts.
  


• The GUI interface for Kenburns animation design was implemented.
  


• The GUI has been tuned for Linux/Gnome.
  


• Image caching was improved.
  


• Double-buffering in slideshow applet was enhanced.
  


• Better synchronization of image/mp3/lrc was implemented.
  


• The speed of slideshow generating was improved with incremental building.
  


• The built-in gadget for making synchronized song lyric file was enhanced.
  


• Unnecessary files will be shrinked when exporting slideshow applet.
  


• Applet deployment was simplified, and all files are packaged into one jar file now.
  


• The java logo during loading phase was replaced with a progress wheel.
  


• The slideshow applet can work without jlayer now.
  


• A major bug in Fullscreen/Window switching was fixed.
  


• A timing bug in transition was fixed.
  


• Language support for Portuguese and simplified Chinese has been added.
  


• documentation has been rewritten.