Best software for slideshow...

I am making a video for my daughter's cheerleading team and want to include a slide show of snapshots from all of the parents for the entire year. There are too many pics, to show them one at a time the video would be 3 hours long.
I am using Pinnacle Studio 10, but it can only display one pic at a time. I am looking to upgrade my software, but would like to be able to show 3, 4, or even 5 pics per page in the slide show portion of the video.... with backgrounds. Much like you can do in Powerpoint where you can have the pics enter in a specific order with specific transitions.

Will Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere elements 2.0 do what I am looking for?
If not are there any suggestions for software that can meet my needs?

Thanks
Jimmy

PS... If you have suggestions, or experience with this type of slideshow please reply to this posting, and/or email jimmynikken@hotmail.com

I think you can do this with proshow gold from photodex.com. The neat thing about this program which I recently used to make a wedding CD from about 600 photos is you can output it to CD, DVD or a mpeg2 video file at 640 x 480 if you want to import it into your NLE. I believe they have a demo that you can try.

Regards,

Mark
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I am making a video for my daughter's cheerleading team and want to include a slide show of snapshots from all of the parents for the entire year. There are too many pics, to show them one at a time the video would be 3 hours long.
I am using Pinnacle Studio 10, but it can only display one pic at a time. I am looking to upgrade my software, but would like to be able to show 3, 4, or even 5 pics per page in the slide show portion of the video.... with backgrounds. Much like you can do in Powerpoint where you can have the pics enter in a specific order with specific transitions.
Will Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere elements 2.0 do what I am looking for? If not are there any suggestions for software that can meet my needs?


Silly question but could you not import the 3 or 5 photos into PhotoShop (or similar prog) and create a composite image that can then be loaded as a single image with PS10?

Try one of the three programs form Sony...excellent for sideshows.
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD might be best if you are unfamiliar with the program as they have tutorials...



www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp