# Can anyone suggest a slideshow maker?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-suggest-a-slideshow-maker/800503 "2017-11-02T15:04:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-suggest-a-slideshow-maker/800503/1 "2017-11-02T15:04:31Z")

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I know Facebook has one that is built in. But I don’t think that one suits my needs. I need one that can show 30 pictures in the span of 3 or 4 seconds.

Anyone know of a good app that can do this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-suggest-a-slideshow-maker/800503/2 "2017-11-03T14:28:27Z")

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My ancient copy of Paint Shop Pro came with Animation Shop, that could do it - or at least turn it into an animated gif or the like. Probably a trial version out there somewhere.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-suggest-a-slideshow-maker/800503/3 "2017-11-03T16:06:11Z")

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Picasa’s movie tool has a “time lapse” option–you can vary the slide duration from 1/6th to 1/30th of a second.

Picasa isn’t available/supported by Google anymore but you can download it from someplace like filehippo.

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**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-suggest-a-slideshow-maker/800503/4 "2017-11-04T13:13:12Z")

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IrfanView has this feature. I normally use IrfanView for all my photo editing (other than Photo Shop type work) and often produce slide shows. There are several options for them (advance on mouse, auto-timing, loop continuously, etc.) that are quite helpful.