FotoMagico Slide Show Program

As we see from some comments that the new Final Cut Pro X will be useful to stills photographers for making snazzy slideshows, I thought that a contrary position was in order!

FotoMagico (FM) is made by Boinx Software and is a very sophisticated application that works hand in hand with Aperture and iTunes to make amazing slideshows. You can access all your Aperture images from within FM, as well as your iTunes library.

FM has dozens of slide transitions, layouts, effects and so-on and offers the power user a range of advanced features that allow you to time slides transitions, move text, manipulate images, insert video clips into the slideshow and so-on.

Slideshows can be exported in a number of formats—straight to a YouTube account, onto a DVD, as a standalone player, as various kinds of movie files, uploaded to websites and so forth.

There is also an iPhone/iPad App called FotoMagico Remote that gives you full remote control and a teleprompter in the palm of your hand!

You will find full details here and I can highly recommend it as a much less expensive option than Final Cut Pro X that will probably be completely adequate for 90% of users, who can spend the money they save by not buying Final Cut on shooting more images!

Posted by Marcus Adams @TLPhoto