Filmator.net provides an interesting online solution for creating video slide shows.  Users can bring together an audio file in an MP3 format and bring in a series of images or slides and put them together online through Filmator’s solution producing an online presentation.

The images can be set to trigger at specific times throughout the audio file, with many advanced options like layering and fading the images in and out through transitions.

The service will even resize images to standardize them during the import phase.  I have looked for a service like this for some time and this appears to be a very easy way to go about it.  The process is very thorough and includes many steps along the way for setting up title pages and the appropriate tags.

Users could achieve a similar effect by purchasing software from Adobe and working in flash, but that can be very expensive.

Below is a video from filmator.net that walks a user through a tutorial for creating a video that I found very helpful in understanding their process.

In general the service is free to artists and charges commercial interests for the work they do utilizing the online service.  You can view the video on their site in a full page screen also.

This is one of the more comprehensive tools that I have found like this on the web.  It is very thorough and as such can deliver a very useful and complete presentation replete with the appropriate tags and descriptions and items that make these types of presentations extra useful.

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There is a great little tool available from Effexis Software.  Its called the Sequence Diagram Editor and allows users to rapidly build sequence diagram.  Its sometimes referred to as UML lite.

The program works to let you quickly work with its intuitive interface.  It comes with a 14 day free trial .

The price if you like it is $99. 

I like tools like these, they are crisp in function and purpose.  You get what you expect and the output is clear.  I’m going to demo it for a few days on the free trial and provide some more information later on down the road with my thoughts.

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