Create moving slideshows and animations
Although photo software such as iPhoto and Picasa have made making photo slideshows much easier, they're not dedicated tools for the task. Neither handle videos well either when it comes to slideshows and presentations.
PulpMotion Advanced however does and allows you to create professional looking and engaging photo-video slideshows that will breathe new life into any photo and video collection. Based on the original PulpMotion, PulpMotion Advanced brings more powerful tools to the table to create professional looking presentations. Just like its older brother, the advanced version includes a wide range of excellent visual themes you can choose from to start working with. However, those that are used to the basic version should note that the interface is considerably more complicated and there are less hints and tips.
The advanced version allows you to time every element precisely, setting the rhythm for your presentation exactly as you like it. PulpMotion Advanced gives access to media from many more applications such as Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. PulpMotion Advanced does a lot of the hard work for you by including a number of visual themes with which to work with.
As with the original version, your own media is organized down the right side of the interface and the timeline runs along the bottom very much like a video editor. To create your own animations, simply drag and drop elements onto the main interface in the same way as you would in iMovie. When you're ready, you need to export it and PulpMotion Advanced provides options to do so via Mail, exporting to QuickTime, publishing to a website using iWeb, uploading it onto an iPhone or even creating a personal screensaver with it. Alternatively, you can publish it as a standalone media player that anyone should be able to watch on their machine.
The great thing about PulpMotion Advanced is that it does a lot of the hard work for you by providing some impressive themes, automatically syncing music. pacing the presentation etc. The interface tries to pack a lot in meaning it does feel a bit cluttered at times but this is a minor drawback on what otherwise is an excellent application. In addition, I found it very unstable in Snow Leopard experiencing quite a few hang-ups along the way.
Overall, PulpMotion Advanced is an excellent multimedia presentation tool that will make your multimedia shows very impressive. If you liked the original, then this version will only make your presentations even better.
Fixed a possible crash when exporting media with Ken Burns effectFixed bug when attaching sound. Now when adding audio comments the background music is quieter (advanced only)Fixed bug when exporting videos using Mac OS X 10.5.8
Changes
Fixed a possible crash when exporting media with Ken Burns effectFixed bug when attaching sound. Now when adding audio comments the background music is quieter (advanced only)Fixed bug when exporting videos using Mac OS X 10.5.8
User reviews about PulpMotion
by Anonymous
Will be a top product once the bugs are worked out!.
Once the company fixes the issues then I would expect the price of this product to go up. However, I am not sure why they have not edited their advertisement as the faces/zones feature is broken if trying to use it with iPhoto (iLife '11). It did work with the previous version but as iPhoto was updated some of the assumptions the PulpMotion developers made are now invalid. Need to do some re-engineering.Encoding the project, any project is very time consuming 30+ minutes. Save the encoding for when you need to do something else like go to the gym or grocery store.The Themes are great!
Pros:
- many variations on themes
- numerous ways to control attributes in each theme
- interface is very easy to use
- website provides nice tutorials/ideas
Cons:
- faces/zones of interest interface does not work with iPhoto (iLife '11)
- slow to encode even a simple project
- exporting/importing and encoding multiple animations is very slow, almost unusable More