Imagination 2.1

Imagination is a simple and lightweight DVD slide show maker written in C language and built with the GTK+2 toolkit.

Developer comments

I noticed a lack on the Linux platform of a user-friendly DVD slide show maker, so I started developing Imagination. True, there are some other GUIs which do the job, but they usually require a lot of dependencies to be installed first. Imagination has been designed from the ground up to be fast, light and easy-to-use. It requires the ffmpeg encoder ONLY to produce the movie file - to be burned to DVD then with another application. Yes you don't need any other third-party software, I like the KISS principle.

Imagination at present features 57 transitions effects developed as plugins loaded at startup. Exporting of the slideshow with audio as OGG and FLV formats is supported. No Ken Burns effects yet but they are planned in future releases.

Imagination is written by the project leader Giuseppe Torelli with the great support of Tadej Borovšak; without his invaluable help I couldn't been able to release a software which does what it was designed for in just 4 months since the date of Sourceforge's approval of the project.

You can help out developing Imagination in several ways. We need people who are willing to test, debug the software, provide patches and adding new transitions; please consult the transitions page to have technical details on how to develop a new transition. If you do not possess any programming skills, you can help with other tasks that need to be done, like translating Imagination and write some documentation.


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Requirements:

· gtk+
· FFmpeg
· SoX

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added a new transition family named Rochade.
· Added 3GP export for mobile phones.
· Fixed seg-fault when using Imagination with GTK 2.18
· Fixed crash when playing with Ken Burns and slide text after closing the project.
· Added a Slides Transitions Report Dialog. Please give feedback on this.
· Added Japanese translation.
· Fixed display of music duration after loading the slideshow.
· Fixed seg-fault when exporting with more audio files.
· Image rotation is now stored inside project file.