Have you ever seen a slide show you liked? (Admit it — you hate them as much as everyone else.) Well, rejoice, because the days of bulleted lists and boring backgrounds are over. Using MetaCreations’ Kai’s Power Show, you can turn dreadfully dull slides into dynamic multimedia presentations.
Power Show is so simple and intuitive that even newbies can figure it out in less than an hour. Like other Kai products, it’s comprised of “rooms” that logically break up the creation process. You start in the In Room, where you import the digital media you want to use or open existing Show presentations. Power Show allows you to import a variety of file formats, including TIFF, BMP, PICT, JPG, FPX, and PSD, as well as QuickTime video dips. It then lays them out as thumbnails for easy viewing.
Once you have imported your images, you zoom into the Sort Room, which features Sort and Sequence buttons that hdp you arrange your content efficiently. At the bottom of the Sort Room are the Sequencer and Nano Sequencer, which lay the show out chronologically, like a filmstrip. To reorder slides, just drag and drop them from one position to another. So simple.
From there you move into the Edit Room. This is where the multimedia fun begins. In the Edit Room, you can add real-time special effects transitions between each slide; all sorts of text, including animated words that zoom into your slides like a bird in flight; and sound via the Sound Fx window.
The final room in Power Show is the Out Room, where you save your show in a variety of formats, including HTML for exporting it to the Web, Best of all, Power Show lets you save your presentation in a format that you can email to your friends. Even folks who don’t have Power Show installed on their computers will be able to see your slide show if you include the Show Player Installer in your email.
As great as this program is, some of its text, transition, sound, and background templates are supercheesy, so be careful what you include — and how much — or your show will end up looking like a bad TV commercial for a iocd electronics store. Power Show also doesn’t feature full platform parity; while PC users can import Microsoft PowerPoint slides, Mac users can’t. For business users who want PowerPoint’s advanced formatting features, this is a major bummer.
If you crave an easy-to-use software package for creating slide shows, then you’ve found your program. Power Show’s intuitive interface, multimedia capabilities, and high-quality output will have audiences oohing and aahing in no time.
Titterton, Jeff. (November 1998). Kai's Power Show. MacAddict. (pg. 56).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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