Any Mac Equivalent to "Pictures to EXE"?

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Any Mac Equivalent to "Pictures to EXE"?

Apologies for this weird question but I was given a rather garbled message that had been passed on from person to person!

Apparently a friend of a friend of a friend is wanting to do A/V with a Mac and wonders whether there is a similar program to the Windows app "Pictures to EXE".

I know absolutely nothing about it but promised to make enquiries.

Does anyone know what this app is and whether there is anything similar for the Mac?

24" 2.8 GHz (Penryn) 4GB RAM iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6), FCE 4 + FCS 3 . . . Little Knowledge, Many Opinions.

Posted on Mar 24, 2011 3:51 PM

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Yer_Man

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Mar 24, 2011 3:55 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

Assuming that this person is referring to this

http://www.wnsoft.com/

(thanks google) then yes, there are many.

Alternatives to iPhoto's slideshow include:

iMovie, on every Mac sold, as is iDVD.

Others, in order of price:

PhotoPresenter $29

PhotoToMovie $49.95

PulpMotion $129

FotoMagico $29 (Home version) ($149 Pro version, which includes PhotoPresenter)

Final Cut Express $199

It's difficult to compare these apps. They have differences in capability - some are driven off templates. some aren't. Some have a wider variety of transitions. Others will have excellent audio controls. It's worth checking them out to see what meets your needs.

However, there is no doubt that Final Cut Express is the most capable app of them all. You get what you pay for.

Regards

TD

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Answer 2

Mar 24, 2011 4:05 PM in response to Yer_Man

Except none of these create executable photo files, that I know of, you have to have a player (i.e., Quicktime) on the machine to view the file.

To the OP:
Does the software have to create an executable? This is an invitation for viruses.

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Ian R. Brown Author

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Mar 25, 2011 1:40 AM in response to Keith Barkley

Thanks Terence and Keith.

As I said, I have no idea what the original person's requirements are as the question was just slipped to me as I was leaving a meeting of my video film-making group late last night.

I know about FCE/FCP, iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto of course but it was said that this particular app had some "special" features, though the person passing on the message couldn't tell me what they were . . . or maybe I forgot them!

Anyway, I will forward this thread to the interested parties.

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