General rate: Positive
Slideshow Pro is a pretty good program, BUT it has a few bugs and the website is not exactly true in it's marketing. It DOES NOT DO EVERYTHING AS CLAIMED in the full version. The authors are in Germany and evidently only work 9-5 Monday through Friday. They do answer support questions, but only during these times (local to Germany). The program DOES NOT DO everything it says it will do without buying add on software for an additional $15.00. Also, there are a few bugs with regard to controlling the audio. My vote is positive only because I have not found anything as full featured, but their website is misleading.

General rate: Negative
I have used the trial version for quite a while just to test out the features The program version I used was 9.6.5 - overall it is a pretty good program despite all the issues with messages, prompts and windows being in German. I wanted something to take my home photos and put on a CD/VCD or DVD w/music. I looked at photo2VCD and Photo2DVD was not impressed with the quality. I tried to download the latest version 9.7.6 to see if it was any better and it failed to load (says invalid application). I am sure it is locked somehow. I loaded it on another computer and when I loaded the test show it spawned error message after error message. Until the program is more stable and has more english transformation I would beware.