Multimedia Animated Slideshow Creators And Remixing Tools - Guide To Best Online Services

Multimedia animated slideshow creators are web-based services which allow you to remix pictures, photos, video clips and music to create visually impactful showcases, slideshows or just memories of a great holiday. In this guide I have selected and reviewed the best multimedia remixing tools available out there.

These multimedia remixing tools allow anyone with little or no technical knowledge to create compelling audio-video slideshows. While experienced users may access advanced features to fine-tune their creations, anyone can get started and produce decent results in a matter of minutes. With these tools, remixing photos and videos into a multimedia animated slideshow is absolutely a no-brainer for both the technically-savvy and the novice alike.

Here are the key features that characterize these multimedia animated slideshow creators:

* Web-based: You do not have to burn CDs to show your slideshows to family and friends anymore. Since these multimedia slideshow creators are all web-based, you just need a computer connected to the Internet and you are done. No more carrying around heavy slide projectors and screens to set up.

* Media import: You can easily access digital content stored inside your media libraries. Either from your computer or across the web, it becomes easier to upload photos and videos to edit and combine into a multimedia slideshow.

* Special effects: You have access to a wide range of transitions and special effects to pimp up the visual impact of your slideshows. You can use customized backgrounds, titles, interactive texts, frames, borders and clickable hotspots inside your slideshows.

* Music: You can either upload your own songs or choose some readily-available tunes inside the music library of the service. Then you can sync (automatically or manually) your music and visuals to create a perfect mix.
* Distribution: You can publish your visual creations on any website or social media page by simply pasting a standard snippet of embed code.

Second, the criteria I have used to select and review these multimedia animated slideshow creators:

* Remixing: Remix your media in an automatic or manual fashion

* Templates: Utilize ready-made templates to create slideshows.

* Social media import: Grab photos and videos from own social media.

* Music library: Access to royalty-free / paid music library.

* Download: Save created slideshows to your computer.

* Social media distribution: Share slideshows on social media sites.

* Private / public: Enable and restrict access to slideshows.

* Pro features: Access an advanced set of features with premium paid accounts.

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Flash Animated Label Cloud For Blogger(Blogmus)

"Blogumus" is an Flash based tag cloud widget which uses scripts converted from Roy Tanck's WP Cumulus plugin for Wordpress. I fell in love with Roy's original Cumulus plugin when I saw it, and simply had to learn how to convert this for use in Blogger powered blogs. The result is the widget you can see in action at the top of this post. Hover your mouse over the Flash object to see the animation begin. In this post, I'll explain how you can add Blogumus to your own Blogger layout with ease!

Update: Improved Widget Code

I have updated the code required to run this widget to activate links in the tag cloud Flash movie. If you have already installed Blogumus, please replace your widget code with the new updated code, or reference the additional lines to modify your existing installation.

How it works

This widget uses a combination of JavaScript and Flash animation to parse and display your blog labels. Once installed in your template, it should work "out of the box" without any additional tweaking required, though of course you may prefer to change the variables for color, background and size if appropriate :) You should also be able to move the Label Cloud widget through the Page Elements page of your dashboard if you prefer display in a different layout location. To see Blogumus in action, both Flash and Javascript must be installed and enabled for your internet browser. However, it does degrade relatively gracefully, and label links will still be clickable (though not animated) for those who do not use JavaScript of Flash (including search engine spiders).

How to install Blogumus in your Blogger layout

Installing Blogumus in your Blogger layout is surprisingly simple! You should only need to copy and paste a section of code to your Blogger template, though any tweaks for the style of display will require some manual editing. Here are the steps required to install Blogumus in your Blogger layout: Go to Layout>Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard, and search for the following line (or similar):