Photo & Video Expressions Premium Suite

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Features

• Automatically enhance & repair photos & remove red-eye
• Combine your favorite photos & music together with SlideShow Expressions
• Create your own onscreen DVD movie with chapters
• Create holiday photo cards & invitations for any occasion
• Share slide shows online at MySpace, YouTube, and others

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000WMQYXI
• Item model number: PMMPVE
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 27, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,375 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Unlike other media management software, Photo & Video Expressions is comprehensive and easy-to-learn. You'll spend less time working on your media projects and more time entertaining your friends and family with impressive creations. It does all of the work for you. It even comes with the same powerful tools used by design professionals. No other media management software is this fast and easy.

Import & Organize Photos

Easily consolidate photos stored on your computer and other devices. Quickly search photo archive and choose from multiple viewing options.

Quality Prints

Get great-looking prints with any printer. Print individual or multiple photos per page. Choose from dozens of layouts and print sizes including wallet, 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and more.

Enhance & Repair Pictures

Enhance photos for more brilliant color, richer detail, and fewer shadows. One-click red-eye removal, automatic enhancements, and color tone previews make it easier than ever.

Special Effects & Content

Turn photos into artistic creations with a full array of special effects, filters, and colorful content. Add artistic frames with stylish borders and smooth edges. Over 42 creative shapes are included, along with a complete selection of colors and patterns.

Impressive Photo Albums

Create thematic photo albums with picture captions as keepsakes to share with your friends and family. With over 500 themes, templates, and clip-art images included, you'll find something for every occasion.

Personal Greeting Cards & Invitations

Use your photos to create personalized greeting cards for birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions. Get started immediately with a multitude of card layouts, sample greetings, and fun clip-art.

Personalized Photo Calendars

A photo calendar adds a personal touch to each month and keeps your friends and family close by all year round. Choose from 25 monthly and yearly calendar styles, add clip-art and special borders, and arrange your photos by month.

Your Photos & Music

Do more with your memorable pictures and favorite music. Create entertaining photo slide shows and share with friends and family, complete with slide transitions, picture captions, and special effects like pan and zoom effects, all perfectly timed to your favorite music.

Play Anywhere

Optimize your slide shows for Apple iPod, Sony PSP players, PDA's, media-enabled Cellular Phones, Internet sites like MySpace and YouTube, and personal web pages.

Burn to DVD

Watch your entertaining slide shows on TV with any DVD player in the comfort of your home. Simply use your CD or DVD burner to place your slide show files on CD-R or DVD-R discs and start viewing them on the big screen in your living room.

Entertaining Home Movies

Make blockbuster movies starring your friends and family. Direct and produce your own entertaining, cinema-quality videos. Trim unwanted segments from raw video, add music and sound effects, overlay captions, and get creative with a full array of special effects.

Video Restoration & Enhancement

Restore old clips with easy-to-use video cleaning tools. Improve lighting, sharpen pictures, enhance colors, reduce background noise, and normalize audio levels.

DVD Menus & Navigation

All the tools you need to create interactive DVD movies: titles and captions, voice narration, background music, and thumbnail menu buttons. Choose from dozens of templates or create your own.

Multiple Formats

Burn DVDs of your personal movies and play them in your living room. Automatically convert home movies into formats optimized for Apple iPod, Zune, Sony PSP players, PDAs, media-enabled cellular phones, Internet sites like MySpace and YouTube, and personal web pages.

DVD Labels & Covers

Easily design and print disc labels and DVD cover sheets featuring your photos, captions, video stills, and more. Supports label paper templates by Avery, Memorex, Neato, CD Stomper, and direct to DVD printing with Epson and other printers.

Product Description

The all-in-one, complete digital media suite includes everything you need to get creative with your photos and music and produce entertaining home movies. Photo & Video Expressions is easy to learn and saves you time. You’ll spend less time creating impressive projects and more time sharing them with family and friends. It does all the work for you. Even the powerful tools used by design professionals are available through this friendly interface. No other software is this fast and easy!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Huge Timesaver, January 4, 2008

By 

J. Renzas (Mission Viejo, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photo & Video Expressions Premium Suite (CD-ROM)

This product is just what I have been looking for to present photos and video in an easy-to-use presentation format. I have spent hours and even days putting together slide presentations for Boy Scouts, athletic team awards ceremonies, and other important events. On Christmas day I was able to take all of the photos of my family making cookies, unwrapping presents and having dinner together and, in a half an hour, put together a great looking DVD presentation to give them before everyone left for the evening. It also includes a really easy to use CD label maker which I use to make labels and DVD covers for. Overall, I would say that this is a great value and a real timesaver.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars For the price, you won't find better for slideshows, July 17, 2008

By 

Mary Santos (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photo & Video Expressions Premium Suite (CD-ROM)

I LOVE this program for slideshows and still images. And if you are doing slideshows, you will adore this program and make your friends jealous that you have all these computer editing skills.

This program is ...almost perfect...but I CANNOT recommend it for video and I only have two complaints:

1. As a previous reviewer mentioned, the audio features could have some added features to help you fade your music in and out when you clip a song short of the natural beginning or ending, instead of abrupt starts and stops, but I suppose you could create a file in a different program to clip your music fades and import, but who would bother with all that when everything else is offered here.

2. The resulting formatting of my digital videos in this program makes them jerky in some places and have what I would call little "artifact" blips in others. This doesn't occur when you preview, it is happening when you are in the "creating a disc" and "transcoding" How I know this is that everytime you go through the transcoding process, it will put the little blips in different spots, but if you just make copies of one transcoded, it will put the blips in the same place on each disc. This means, it is not my blank DVD discs, it is not my DVD writer either. It is some problem with the transcoding of the video during the formatting process within the program, right before it actually burns to the DVD. This has got to be a bug within the program and I have contacted the software maker and will update if a solution or patch becomes available.

If you are making slideshows from still images, by all means snatch this up, you will love it!

If you are using digital videos, prepare to have them somewhat butchered by periodic blips on your TV screen and some videos will just seem jerky and hard to watch.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Software, January 7, 2008

By 

TwoCruzin (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Photo & Video Expressions Premium Suite (CD-ROM)

I was looking for software that was simple to use, integrate video and slideshows, insert captions for pictures and make DVDs. This is what this software does. I have only made slideshows and have not used the video portion of the software as I am still learning. There seems to be no editing function for music selection for slideshows and there is a standard pause between different selections that cannot be changed. This is a good program for someone just starting out and easier to use than ROXIO which came with the computer.