PulpMotion Advanced

PulpMotion Advanced will help its users to create videos and slideshows that can depict anything from an important event of their lives to customized stories for their children, depending on each user's needs and improvising abilities.

The utility offers a large number of predefined themes to work with, to which media files will be added, such as music files, videos, photos or animated text. The editing options available for modifying the media files and the way they will be presented in during the slideshow enable the user to feel that enough flexibility is allowed in the process of creation, even while working with predefined templates. For example, where texts are concerned, they can be added while having options for editing their color, font and size, but also their alignment, shadow and apparition mode, as they can be animated. Spell checks can also be performed. In the case of images, their zoom level and rotation angle can be set differently when they start and when they finish being displayed, several types of transition can be set for them and filters can be added to them. These are only some of the editing options allowed, but users will probably find it fun to explore other options too. However, a downside is that no editing functions were found for basic image modification, like brightness and contrast. If they are available, then a downside remains that they are not easy to find.
PulpMotion Advanced is a nice utility for creating animated slides, intuitive enough to work with for a beginner, however offering enough editing options for a professional-looking end result to be obtained.