FlipFlip – Cool Slideshows


FlipFlip – Cool Slideshows

You can of course browse through your (online) photo folders with Windows Explorer or your browser, but it works much more pleasantly if you do that in the form of a beautiful slide show with a nice effect here and there. FlipFlip takes care of that, and how.

FlipFlip

Price

For free
Language

English
OS

Windows
Website
www.github.com/ififfy/flipflip 8 Score 80 Rating: 80

  • Pros
  • Many setting options
  • Diverse Resources
  • Negatives
  • Not so clear

Even before we started working with the portable open source tool FlipFlip, we already had the feeling that the tool had quite a lot to offer. During the installation we already saw the excellent ffmpeg library and the program recommended that you first go through a few ‘tutorials’. And it must be said: FlipFlip did not disappoint.

source material

With the plus button you add your first ‘scene’ alias slide or video show. There are various options: both locally (images, videos, playlists or a complete folder) and online (urls of, for example, a web album at services such as Twitter, Instagram and so forth).

You can play the scene right after. From a control panel you can fast forward and backward or call up a full screen display.

You can add images, audio, and video, from local sources and online.

Options and extras

From an options window you can set the timing and duration of each ‘slide’, determine the video speed, adjust the image size optimally for your monitor, set a background with blur or even select an image overlay with the desired degree of transparency.

You will also find some filters here to limit the show to, for example, only (portrait or landscape) images, animations or videos. If you wish, you can also have only a certain fragment of long videos play.

FlilFlip can handle five different transition types (zoom, cross-fade, strobe, fade in/out and panning), but each type can be carefully fine-tuned. You can also add playlists of your favorite music as well as overlays with subtitles. You must first add both audio tracks and subtitles to the respective libraries.

Finally, you can also have several scenes play simultaneously in a grid or you can let FlipFlip generate its own pseudo-random scenes from the available source material.

There are plenty of setting options to completely customize a scene.

Conclusion

FlipFlip is a somewhat unconventional tool for playing slide and video shows. Basically you don’t have to do more than point to your sources and hit the play button, but then you do an injustice to the many options with which you can further shape your shows.

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