burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Keynote is Apple's answer to PowerPoint. Slicker in many respects, it does great slide shows, as do iPhoto and iMovie. Its real strength is live visual support for speakers (presenters). Steve Jobs used it for his keynote speeches, as does Tim Cook.

But if you're used to ProShow Gold, or similar software on Windows, why change? Just install Windows on the Mac and get the best of both worlds. That's especially helpful if you have other Windows software you want to continue to use.

If you do want Mac apps, then Fotomagico 4.x is $99.99 on the App Store and is the way to go. It's a five-star rated program that will do a fine job.

I run both platforms on my Mac, and have since 1998 in one way or another. Since Apple went to Intel chips, it works phenomenally well. All you need is enough RAM and drive space.

In reality, you can combine elements of many different programs into an HD video, and get the best of each rolled into one. I used to export video from PowerPoint to add graphics to training shows. Combine it with stills and camera video, and you can do most anything.

bigcoz Loc: Philly

I have used Keynote for a 22 minute slideshow with a lot of different transitions and background music. I'm not that snappy on the computer so it took me quite a while to do it but it turned out great. I would lead you to it but I can't figure out how to do that. Sorry!

bigcoz Loc: Philly

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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

It's in the Applications folder if pre-installed.

It's downloadable from the App Store if not... Go to the Apple Menu -> App Store...

JohninRockville Loc: Rockville, Indiana

I appreciate all the input! Now I'll have to experiment with what I have before looking into additional programs. I didn't realize iphoto offered this as I'm used to just jumping into Photoshop to work on my images.

dusty3d Loc: South Florida

I use photomagico on my mac and very pleased with it

mrmal Loc: Saskatoon, Sask, Canada

fotomagico 4 is the ultimate. iPhoto is good but fotomagico is the best.

iMac pro - I am envious

macsta Loc: the winterless north of nz

Go to system preferences (apple logo) top left of your screen, select display or screen saver, choose your source from the options that appear, choose the style of show you want, (ken burns-classic etc:) go from there, you'll soon get the hang of it. It works awesome, if you wish you can also connect to your big tv & use that as a screen too.

macsta Loc: the winterless north of nz

Alternately, go to iphoto, select your album or photo's you wish to show, hit the slideshow button at the bottom of your screen, select your style, with or without music from your itunes library and bingo, you're away.

Dogman Loc: Michigan

My MacBook Pro has Keynote, imovie and iphoto. Will either of those create a DVD slide show to be played on DVD player? The Mac has a DVD burner.

Dogman

mrova Loc: Chesterfield, VA

I make my slideshows in imovie and go up to the top to 'share' and hit 'export' or 'idvd.' You can burn the slideshow from idvd. If you hit export, you can save the slideshow straight to your hard drive and pick it up from there when you open up idvd also. imovie is a powerful little program with lots of features and does a great job for the cost. Be glad to PM you a link to my dropbox for you to have a look at what you can do with it...and I'm definitely no expert.