Kai's Power Show

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• ASIN: B00002S723
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 20, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,187 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Create and play home photo shows and enhance business presentations the fast, fun, and easy way with Kai's Power Show. With seamless support for digital photos, Microsoft PowerPoint slides (PC only), graphics, and even video clips, this easy-to-use software turns a ho-hum presentation into a multimedia production. Add special effects transitions, TV-like text animation, and sound clips. Share your productions via a PC monitor, projector, printer, the included Show Player software, even the Web. From home to office, Kai's Power Show is perfect for business presenters, teachers, artists, families, and hobbyists.

Create an entire presentation in seconds using Power Show's Simple Sentence Control. Add animated text effects and much more. Flexible input options offer support for JPG, TIFF, TGA, AVI, QuickTime video clips, WAV, as well as other file formats. Edit and create professional-looking shows using the software's frame and nano sequencers. An extensive collection of 69 real-time transitions makes it easy to add a TV-like look and feel to your presentations. Slide presets, sound clip support, a sound clip library, and flexible print options round out this versatile program.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love Photography? You'll LOVE PowerShow, August 17, 2000

By 

"sookyas" (Mission Viejo, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kai's Power Show (CD-ROM)

You have probably been looking for a slide show software for some time to show off your scanned pictures and slides. You probably want something easy to learn with lots of slide transitions and capabilities such as adding your voice narration, custom soundtracks and sound effects. And after you create your masterpiece, you want to share it with your friends easily.

I have used PowerShow for about 3 months and I can assure you it is the best software you can buy for your money to accomplish your slide show presentation goals. The software sets up very easily with no bugs or problems. You can easily import your scanned photos, choose from over 50 high quality transitions and view your masterpiece within about an hour. What wins the cake are the transitions: they include broadcast quality "page curls" and "liquid wipes" that you might see on MTV or travel type shows. The instructions are relatively clear and they are included on MS Word format.

When you play the show on your computer, the software simply accesses the picture files (so do not move the picture files after you create the show!). If you want to send someone the show, PowerShow will automatically copy all the picture files into a new folder. You simply add to this folder the included "remote" player that anyone could use to view your show. One warning: this file could get very large so emailing it might be challenging. Solution: I would suggest burning the show on a CD and just mail it to them or take it with you when you visit your friends and relatives (Thanksgiving/Christmas is coming up!)

The audio capabilities is very good and easy to use. For each slide you choose one of the many included sound effects. Additionally, you can record and insert any WAV format sound effect you choose including a voice over narration. One downside is the very large file size of WAV files and I would hope SCANSOFT will include MP3 sound file support in the future (hint!hint! SCANSOFT) The big plus, however, is that if you have a favorite audio CD, simply pop it into the player and tell PowerShow what track to play and when to play it! This does not use up any computer memory but you would have to have that music CD handy each time you play that show.

I had a small problem importing TIFF images but the website explains the fix for the bug. Also, you cannot output your creation out to AVI, MPEG or video which is too bad since I am sure there are many grandparents out there who don't have a computer and would love to play the show on the VCR (hint-hint #2!).

This is a great software that is easy to learn and use and it gives professional results. It would be a wonderful gift for anyone who enjoys photography and slideshows.

Enjoy!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product - but shop around, May 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Kai's Power Show (CD-ROM)

This is really the best thing available for slide show style presentations that are truly cross platform and don't require client software (MS powerpoint, for example).

Before you buy, shop around. There is only one CD with the software for Win NT, Win 95 and Mac, and the prices vary by +-$15

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful 'little' program for digital pictures, March 9, 2002

By 

Tim (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kai's Power Show (CD-ROM)

Power Show is a great and inexpensive program for creating different types of prresentations (Shows). It is both Mac/PC friendly. Like any other program, there is a learning process to use all/some of its features. I strongly suggest printing out the Manual which can be located on the CD before you begin creating Shows.

It offers numerous ways to spice up your Shows (transitions, effects, sounds, text, backgrounds, etc.).

When you are finished creating a Show, you can save it to CD and the program automatically attaches a Show Player on your CD so others can enjoy the finished product.

A great way to store and share your digital memories with others or creating professional looking presentations!