I'm looking for a Audio/Visual editor that will sync to music tracks with controllerable transitions. I'm not even sure if going to a video editor is overkill or the standard.

Currently, i'm only working w/ photos & not video.....yet....but video may come in the LATE future....

The main functions that I need is:
- able to build a photo slide show on a timeline
- timeline must have separate tracks for photo & music
- available transitions btwn photos. eg. fade left2right, right2left, etc...
- ability to have more than 1 photo viewable at any instant in timeline on screen
- ability to place photos in different areas of displying screen
- ability to have the photos move on the screen
- all to above to preferably work in conjunction w/ each other

I've worked w/ Avid a long time ago where this some of this can be done w/ video clips & I've tried also the MAGIX "Pictures to CD & DVD" program.

"Pictures to CD & DVD" is close to what I need but it's lacking advanced transitions btwn photos. As well i can only show 1 picture at a time on screen.

Example of advanced effects I'm looking for:
Eg1 - have 5 photos on the screen
- 1 photo in each corner & 1 photo in the middle
- each corner photo to overlap their corners with middle photo's corner
- have perhaps photos on from one diagonal fade in & out 1 at a time from corner to corner, then the other diagonal do the same, thus only really having 2 photos visible at all times

- i can see this might be more possible to make one jpg with all 5 photos & apply effects or transitions to the 1 jpg....but is this the only way?

Eg2 - same 5 photo positions as above
- however, each photo to appear from a point in the middle & zoomOut/move to their position
- thus 1st frames has only 1 photo visible, next has 2, next 3, 4, then all 5

I'm sure there must be some program out there that have these capabilities....

Thanks & Much needed....Greenie

ulead video studio (or the complete media suite) can do this, and also can pinnacle studio plus

For the ULead Visual Studio or Pinnicale Studio, can it rotate photos within a screen. I don't mean just turn a photo taken 'portrait' orientation & change to 'landscape' orientation, but actually transition it from one orientation to the other?

I have Adobe Premiere 5.5 which allow clips to be moved, zoomed & rotated simultaneously on a motion path...Does the 2 software above allow this?

pinnacle studio can do that, but only make sure you get the "plus" version. before buying check out a demo version or if any of your friend has it.