Presentation Software Reviews and Downloads

Cover Expert

Cover Expert enables you to create virtual covers for your products, including CDs, DVDs and books. You can choose from several template designs and load your own images to be used for the sides and front of the objects. The program provides a 3D environment that allows you to scale, rotate and place objects in the scene. You can adjust camera angels, light and shadow, and also add reflection effects to make the scene look more realistic. Cover Expert can render your design to PNG, JPG, GIF and several other image formats.

Miraplacid Publisher

Miraplacid Publisher enables you to convert any printable documents into an image format, PDF file or website presentation. It allows you to scale the image as needed, set output format and compression ratio, remove unused border white space and more. The program installs as a virtual printer and can be accessed from the print dialog of any application. Instead of sending it to your paper printer, simply select the Miraplacid Publisher, choose an output format and save it to file. The dialog offers a wide range of pre-defined output settings, so you can simply choose the one that fits your needs, or you can adjust it for custom results. Miraplacid Publisher supports multi-page TIFF, JPEG, TGA, PNG and BMP. You can also use it to print to paper, and select from several multi-page and scaling options as well as color saturation settings and more.

ProShow Gold

ProShow Gold allows you to easily create stunning photo slide shows for friends, family, business, or just for fun. You can add a custom sound track, pick from hundreds of transition effects, add sound effects, text captions, create DVDs, Video CDs and more. You can also create autorun CDs, self-contained executable slide shows in EXE format, web presentations and build Windows screensavers from your pictures. When creating CD or DVD slideshows, you have the option to include copies of the original images on the CD, allowing you to use it as a storage and presentation tool at the same time. The interface is easy to use and allows for simple drag and drop of your images and sound files. Other features include integrated image editing, audio/video trimming, timeline editing, special effects and more. ProShow Gold supports output in MPEG I/II, Windows Media, Quicktime, Flash and other formats.

Wink

Wink allows you to record desktop action or program windows and create smooth, animated Flash demonstrations from the result, which can be saved in SWF format or as standalone EXE file with integrated playback. Simply press a keyboard key every time you want to capture a frame; when you are finished, you can annotate each frame, using a variety of comment shapes. You can also include Next and GoTo button, allowing the viewer to navigate the animation or jump to specific frames. The frames are then rendered into a smooth Flash animation that can be played in the user`s browser or the standalone EXE file with viewer. Wink is easy to use and lets you create quality Flash demos with no further experience needed.

Tourweaver Professional for Windows

Tourweaver helps to create full screen interactive virtual tours with maps,hotspots,company information, dynamic text, pop-up images for certain scenes,radars and url links,and publish tours in videos and java applet.

Wondershare DemoCreator

Screen recorder to save your time and cost to create software tutorials, presentations, online software training and visual online help Wondershare DemoCreator is a screen capture software to create Flash-based software tutorials, online software training and Web-based product presentations by recording screen activities. It is so easy to use, no need of programming or multimedia skills. With the power of Wondershare DemoCreator, you can significantly improve the productivity and efficiency of software training and presentation. Not like other screen recording software, DemoCreator not only records actions such as mouse movement, clicks, drag & drop and keystrokes, but also generates a series of editable screenshots, which are ready to be animated as a flash movie that exactly mirrors your actions taken on screen. Do not worry. No need of programming knowledge or multimedia skills to make your demo look professional. It just like working with Microsoft PowerPoint. Add interactive object, such as callout, shape, text field and button, and drag to draw it on the slide. Change the look of objects, like border, filling method, text on it. Even, you are allowed to use any pictures or images to replace the original figure of the object. Manage time sequence of the objects by using the timeline editor, which is the most intuitive and easy way to determine when an object becomes visible and when disappears in the scene at runtime. Record the narration from microphone or import audio file directly to make a voice-over demo. And also you are allowed to edit the audio by using the audio timeline editor. Move the timeline cursor to a specific time, you instantly preview the current frame on the preview window. Synchronization is easier than ever! When you created your favorite flash demo, as you know, the flash file has smaller size and is safer for network transmission. DemoCreator enables you to publish the flash demo for diverse uses, such as Web sharing, LMS courseware, auto-run CD and e-mail conveniently. Furthermore, you may export a certain frame as an image.

Motion Studio

Motion Studio is an easy-to-use authoring software to create interactive multimedia EXEs, CD autorun dialog and publish to the Web. It provides a new, fast and affordable way for you to create high-impact interactive multimedia applications that you can present on your Web page (using the free plugin player) or distribute as EXE files. The program offers an integrated image editor for editing and image processing as well as 21 Built-in visual effects and a built in sound recorder. You can import and edit images from 15 image file formats, drag and drop images from your browser, and easily publish your creations to the web. Several samples are included. It takes some time to get going with the program, but it produces nice results.

FreeMind

FreeMind is an open source mind mapping software that enables you to visualize ideas, projects, concepts, brainstorming, internet research or any other task that can benefit from a structured overview. You can create nodes with child and sibling nodes and add icons, clouds, notes and custom formatting for better presentation. The nodes can be expanded or collapsed, or interactively linked to local files, other maps, online resources and more. You can also insert encrypted nodes or create encrypted maps for sesitive projects. The finished maps can be exported to HTML, clickable XHTML, Open Office document, image file and other formats.

Fresh Flash Catalog

Fresh Catalog is an digital publishing software. Create digital Brochures or eBrochures, eBooks, multi media presentations, photo album sand eCards,create quizzes, exams, tests, forms, and surveys. Full Flash support. Export and import Flash swf.

Demo Builder

Demo Builder is a utility to create interactive Flash movies that allow you to show how applications and systems work with the help of interactive tutorials. It works by taking a series of editable screen captures of a specified program or window, and automatically combines them into an annotated Flash movie clip with moving cursors and popup hints. The animation is ready-to-use almost immediately after capture, however you can further customize the movie by editing, and adding annotations, highlights, visual effects and more. The result can be viewed in virtually any browser, and also distributed as standalone EXE file with built-in viewer, or as a sequence of images. Additional features include auto-annotation of activities, built-in audio editor, FTP upload and more.

PowerPoint to DVD

PowerPoint to DVD lets you easily convert PowerPoint presentations (ppt) into video files (AVI) with sound track, and it can produce a DVD disc which can play on any DVD player or PC. Sharing your presentations with everyone. PowerPoint to DVD can nearly keep all the original animations and special effects in your PowerPoint file on the video file. or can attached the sound from microphone,CD player,background music etc. Key features include: Converts ppt files into video [AVI] files with sound track. Nearly keep all the original animations and special effects in ppt file. Supports all versions of Microsoft PowerPoint Use the built-in burning engine or 3rd party program for burning. NTSC, PAL and custom resolutions and frame rates are supported. Attached the sound into video file from microphone,CD player,background music etc. All-in-one turns your PowerPoint presentations into DVD. Provides full presentation control during conversion. Features easy to use, intuitive interface.

Slide Executive Desktop

This program keeps your Microsoft PowerPoint slides organized and accessible. Slide Executive scans your computer, as well as any selected shares, for presentations and imports them into the system. The repository is intelligently updated by keeping track of which presentations have changed or are missing. The system enables you to create new presentations and manage existing ones. The search function allows you to find presentations or slides that can then be used in new or existing presentations. Drag-and-drop slides into place. Generate new presentations on the fly. As a new virtual presentation is created from existing presentations it can be exported in to a new Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in a matter of seconds. Enter or select the presentation attributes you would like to apply to the presentation. Then select a template and create your new presentation.

iPresent It

With iPresent It you can convert your PowerPoint and PDF presentations into slideshows that are synced with your iPod. Never carry a laptop into a presentation again; it's all on your iPod!

NetViz

This program presents complicated data graphically. A netViz diagram represents graphical reflections of object and relationship information in a database. The desktop product gives you options for visualizing data in 2-D and 3-D graphical displays. It also provides the ability to depict any complex system and import information from your existing databases and spreadsheets.

Power AutoPlay Menu Creator

Power Autoplay menu creator professional is easy tool for creating powerful autoplay menus without programming experience by Power Autoplay menu creator professional. you can create menus have buttons, photos, texts, html, flash files, RTF files, GIF files

Image Chest

Digital image proofing & image sales program for photographers. Burn your clients images to CD/DVD using this program and hand them the disk! Your client will then view their images in a shopping cart style interface that allows them to easily select the prints, sizes and quantity they wish to order. Once they complete their order and payment details, they simply email you a secure file with their order details for fulfillment. You set all sales information such as sizes & pricing. Great for wedding photographers or anyone who sells their images to the end user or client.

proGP-Mygale

Communication inside the company is often too poor. ProGP-Mygale is done to improve it. # Capacities : - No install (with zip package), easy to use - Easy to administrate - Quick access to the requiered shared information (between 2 and 5 clicks) - Smart (self-manages the sub-summaries and documents lists) - No wasted information, no wasted time - Protects the read/write rights - Use intranet network. No internet connection requiered

IntroCreator

IntroCreator makes it increadibly easy to create self-running multimedia presentations of your products, company or business activities from sound, image and text elements.

The Presentation Launcher

Automatically recursively search for all available presentations. Presentations can be in ppt or pps format. If more than one presentation is found, you can choose which presentation to start. Launching of the presentation happens seamlessly without visually loading PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer. If PowerPoint isnt installed The Presentation Launcher will automatically give you access to the free viewer which is embedded in a single file.

Mission Expert

Mission Expert is a new solution for creating and installing an effective mission statement in your organization. Engaging multimedia presentations guide you through a simple, structured method with tools and templates that cut your time in half. Based on a straightforward proven methodology, Mission Expert includes all of the templates and tools you need to successfully produce and install a excellent mission statement.

EDraw Organizational Chart

EDraw Organizational Charts is a new organization chart drawing software, which creates org chart and business charts with minimum time loss for you. Support basic flowcharts, organizational charts, business charts, hr diagram, work flowchart, programming flowchart and network design diagrams. Easy to use drawing tools, many pre-drawn org chart templates and more than 600 org chart symbols and org chart samples, drawing couldn't be easier!

Flying PopCorn POP

Multimedia Contents Authoring ToolEasy and exciting for beginners...Dynamic and interactive for experts...Flying PopCorn 6 lets you produce outstanding, yet refined, contents with multimedia materials (text, image, sound, video, animation, Flash, web document and database) with easy and convenient editing. The created contents can be applied to the web as well as CDs and presentations.===== OVERVIEW ===== * Powerful : Light but powerful web contents - Makes your homepage much more outstanding using web-based playback file. - Simple web documents editing with multiple web browsing controls. * Easy : Even for beginners - Most functions work just by clicking and dragging the mouse. - Easy and fast editing via various templates and supplied samples. * Dynamic : Produces outstanding, dynamic and interactive contents - Fancy contents with stereophonic sound and fascinating animation. - Dynamic interactive contents using built-in programmable actions. * Various : Multi-purpose, for various users from children to experts - CD-ROM titles and web contents for promotion, presentation, education and albums - For Company, school (pre-school up to university), government, church, home, etc. ===== APPLICATIONS ===== Easy creations like PowerPoint... Versatile applications like Flash... * Multimedia Web Pages - Company homepage, Personal BLOG - E-learning contents, sending e-mail * Digital Albums - Family album, Wedding album, Children album - Graduation album, Personal profiles * Educational Materials and Lessons - E-learning, Lecture notes / plans and contents - Multimedia lessons, Extracurricular lessons * Effective and Powerful Presentations - Presentations, Project reports - Company IR, Contest materials * Commercial / Promotional Products - E-books, CD titles, Promotional materials - Electronic dictionaries, Multimedia database

Wildform WildPresenter Pro

WildPresenter combines 8 essential and expensive presentation products into one program. It includes: screen recorder, PowerPoint to Flash converter, video and audio converter, timeline editor with easy wizards, drawing and flowcharting suite, video and audio capture tool, text effects engine, and animation and transition generator.

Ulead PhotoImpact

This graphics editor provides 13 image galleries and includes an HTML assistant and helper program. You can manage and enhance digital photos, create graphics and produce high-impact Web pages for personal or business use, including interactive slideshows and video CD slideshows.

NeoBook Professional Multimedia

You can use this multimedia authoring system to create interactive presentations. It allows you to combine images, sound, video, text, special effects and other elements.

nPowered Presenter

OutSite

With OutSite-In, transform your site into an "outersite": your website, still dynamic, but without the web. Your website can finally go anywhere, as an outersite on a CD rom, USB key or as a software. Quickly create and personalize your outersite using this powerful, multi-lingual software called OutSite-In. Outersites make perfect backup solutions, too! Works seamlessly with PHP/MySQL and all major CMS.

PowerPoint Composer

With PowerPoint Composer you can create new PowerPoint presentations from existing ones.

Ovation

Honored as one of The 100 Best Products of the Year, Ovation turns lifeless PowerPoint slides into a stunning visual experience. Choose from a variety of sensational themes, called PowerLooks, to add subtle motion, high-resolution text, and dynamic transitions to plain PowerPoint slides. Ovation also offers built-in presentation tools that help you deliver a superior message. Using your laptop's external output, audiences see your presentation full-screen while you see tools like a secret teleprompter that help you hit key points without memorizing, a TimeKeeper to eliminate going into overtime, and a Go Deeper function to attach expanded information to your slides that you can optionally dive into in response to audience questions.

Panorama Express

Panorama Express makes it very easy for you to create spectacular professional virtual tours featuring:

Rich Chart Builder

This program allows you to create interactive data charts with attractive visuals, animation and even voice explanations. The program creates Flash and PowerPoint charts, as well as image and PDF documents. Chart data values can be imported from Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheets or directly entered in the interface.

FlipAlbum

This program automatically organizes digital images into 3D page-flipping picture albums. Simply select a photo folder, and the program will create the page layouts, annotations and audio. You can also upload and share albums on the Internet. The program includes 3,000 borders, frames and clipart items. It offers MPEG-2 support for exporting albums to DVDs, layout templates, font embedding, and customizable tables of contents.

Netxpression Web Presentation Builder

With NX anyone can create professional web presentations that communicate clearly and persuasively. NX lets you build professional business presentations for use directly over the Internet or on CD-ROM. Your finished presentation can be viewed by anyone with a standard web browser, so no special software is required for your audience. You too can deliver professional web presentations with very little effort and amazing results.

Ability Presentation

Microsoft PowerPoint compatible Presentation program with direct support for PPT and PPS formats. Microsoft Office 2003 look and feel. Limitations compared to PowerPoint: no movie or sound support and no support for object animations (within a slide).

Comparison Chart

Comparison Chart enables you to create comparison charts, that display differences between products, services or any other item that you want to compare. It provides a WYSIWYG interface that lets you type in the criteria and click a button to insert bullets to indicate availability of features. The finished chart can be saved as JPG or GIF image, or exported to HTML. You can customize the colors of the table rows and background (but not the bullets) and also save your design as custom color scheme. Unfortunately, at a closer look, this program shows several significant flaws and shortcomings. For one the image output is of poor quality, the HTML output is very basic and depreciated, and the colored bullets do not match any custom color schemes. The chart can also be printed, but the print output not customized. If you can live with these flaws, give it a try, otherwise wait for improved versions in the future.

Opus Creator

Opus Creator is the easy, cost-effective introduction to commercial multimedia publishing. Ideal for creative individuals looking to exploit the new marketplace for interactive publications, whether they are graphic artists, musicians, multimedia entrepreneurs or creative writers. Combine text, images, words, sound and video into all kinds of interactive publications and distribute on the PC, Web or even domestic DVD.

MatchWare Mediator

This icon-based, drag-and-drop utility creates HTML, Flash and CD-ROM presentations. You can combine text, images, video, sound, Flash movies, interactivity, animation, variables and input objects. Use your own design or make use of the included templates. You can distribute your creations by Flash, HTML or CD-ROM. There is a built-in FTP upload manager, and the CD-ROM builder creates a copy of your presentation that will run on any PC.

MediaMixer

MediaMixer allows you to produce and distribute your own interactive multimedia presentation, by assembling pictures, sound, movies, text and many other media types into a standalone presentation. You can apply transition effects and filters to each item and combine as many different types as you wish. The resulting presentation can be saved as standalone EXE file, including all images, graphics and sounds as well as exported for use on a CD, including autorun. MediaMixer uses a timeline screen that allows you to add the media elements in the order you want them to appear and edit the details by clicking on the entry. The program is a little complicated to use, documentation is provided in HTML format only. It has many features but requires some patience in order to make full use of them.

LiveWorship

This church presentation software puts the power of enhanced worship presentation in your hands. Its database keeps all of your song lyrics, backgrounds, Bible translations, video, and music at the touch of your fingertips. It comes loaded with popular Bible translations like the NIV, NRSV, KJV and the Message.

Crystal Xcelsius Professional

Transform Excel spreadsheets into interactive and visually stunning Flash data presentations, management reports and forecast models with Crystal Xcelsius Professional 4. The program helps you create professional data presentations using features such as: broad support for Excel functions; drilldown charts; and one-click export to Adobe PDF.

Media Show Pro

Create presentations as stand-alone EXE files with Media Show Pro. You select pictures from any folder on your system. The program features transition effects and background music. Presentations can be automatic by timer or controlled manually. If you prefer, you can create SCR files and use your presentations as standard Windows screen savers.

Opus Home

This program creates animated, interactive multimedia software for scrapbooks, slideshows, presentations, and promotional and educational games. It includes vector drawing tools, gradient fills, textures, blends and effects. It provides a full range of animations and transitions, and fundamental actions to move around your publication, control slideshows and audio or video.

WhiteBoard

Draw with red, green, blue, and black markers. Use the eraser to clean up the whiteboard. Right click on the board to set a start point and then start typing. Markings on the whiteboard are automatically saved when the program is closed.

3D Graph Generator

This software is fly-through 3D graph software for presentations, marketing, sales, analysis and fun. Capture the attention of your audience with 3D technology.

JobFish

This program provides a job search toolkit for professionals seeking gainful employment. JobFish provides tools that enable the job seeker to organize and extract job prospects from various job boards, such as CareerBuilder.com, retrieve information quickly, deal with recruiters, apply for jobs, and view reports.

AV Manager Display System

Operate multiple display units - LED and LCD displays, plasma TVs, projectors, bulletins or video walls - remotely across a network. AV Manager 3.0 supports video formats including VCD, DVD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, ASF, Quicktime, TV channels, cable TV and webcams; image formats including BMP, GIF and JPEG; and scrolling text, Web pages and Powerpoint presentations. It also contains other enhanced features including screen splitting, ad-hoc messages, an online update schedule and the ability to group contents into groups and playlists.

Articulate Presenter

This program transforms PowerPoint into a Flash authoring software used to convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash presentations in seconds. It integrates narration and interactivity with a standard PowerPoint file to help novice users create quality products. The program reduces the size of your presentations so they download quickly, and the presentations can be distributed on the Web, by e-mail or on CD-ROM.

AtPresent Editor

Create Flash-based interactive presentations, simulations, demos and tutorials. You can build your content visually, embed images, Flash movies, text and audio using the fully customizable layout. Add interactive elements and transformations including active areas, key presses, text input fields, hyperlinks, positive and negative reactions on user action, mouse cursors and mouse clicks.

WinPresenter

Import Microsoft PowerPoint files or capture Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, BMP, JPG, and GIF image files as well. WinPresenter records what users are writing and drawing onto the imported and captured files. It also records the user's voice and video through a microphone and Web cam. These files can be edited at any time or broadcast using Internet Explorer.

CONCEPT X7

This software is a utility for meetings, presentations, concepts and project preparation. This program can organize office documents in a modifiable tree structure, and create sketches, notes and concepts. The program spectrum ranges from creative brainstorming to meeting templates that are ready to use. Another feature is the clickable interactive concepts that contain integrated business logic.

Graph ZX

Design presentation quality graphs for

eNstructor

This program allows users to import Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Web sites, image files and screen captures to use as templates. Sketches and additional notes can then be superimposed onto these templates, and eNstructor simultaneously records this entire process. It records the users' writing process and movement of their mouse, along with the voice and a video recording of them through a webcam. These recorded lectures can be exported into various file formats including AVI, ASF, WMV, HTML and JPG. eNstructor comes with WinCAM Video CODEC.

Powerbullet Presenter

This program allows you to create presentations and Flash Web sites using a drag-and-drop interface. No timelines, layers or scripting are required. Non-linear navigation is supported.

ScholarWord

This academic writing tool helps you write papers by integrating tools and information into your word processor. It supports MLA, APA and Chicago style manuals.

MaxMedia PRO

Create sophisticated interactive applications such as presentations, kiosks, product catalogs, CD-cards, photo albums, games, greeting cards, e-books, computer-based training applications, screen savers, educational materials or interactive CDs. This multimedia authoring software allows you to combine graphics, images, photos, text, sounds, MP3, video, flash, animation and HTML elements into your own creation that can run by itself as an EXE, as a screen saver, or can run directly from a CD or DVD. You can send your program via e-mail, CD-ROM or floppy disk.

Graphe Easy

This 2D graph-plotting program lets you draw many graph types (cartesian, polar, parametric coordinates) and many other graphs such as conics, integrals, inequations or sequences. It also provides a wide range of tools to comment on the graphics and get high quality results.

Reallusion TalkingSlide

This program creates talking animated presentations and photo slideshows by adding a CrazyTalk interactive guide or audio narration. Viewers are then guided slide-by-slide by the accompanying speech.

ScreenPen

This presentation tool works on any screen and allows you to highlight, write, erase and magnify during your presentation.

LinktivityPresenter

This software is a personal graphic communications tool for everyone. You can draw, highlight and type directly on your computer screen, on PowerPoint slides, on Word documents, Excel sheets or on any program that you have open on your computer. LinktivityPresenter is appropriate for sales, professional services, consultants, trainers, software documentation, usability studies, quality assurance, incident reporting, medical professionals, online shoppers and more.

QPresenter LE

This program lets you sort and combine slides from different PowerPoint presentations and build up a library of your favorite slides. It also captures new slides from Word or Excel with a single click and adds them to your presentation, together with captured Web pages from the built-in browser. When presenting, you can jump to the live Word, Excel, or Web document to show more detail. Your presentation may then be e-mailed to a colleague via Outlook.