Screensaver Factory 5 Pro 5.0

Screensaver Factory 5 Pro 5.0 is the world's number one screensaver development software, enabling users to create stunning professional screensavers within minutes. With Screensaver Factory you can create screensavers for yourself, for marketing or royalty-free commercial distribution. You can make screensavers from any set of images, video and flash animation, with background music and over 100 smooth picture effects. Very easy to use, generates standalone self-installing screensaver files and CDs for easy distribution.

You can make screensavers for sale using special features for shareware authors - registration keys (single and per-customer), functionality limitations (image count, trial period), customizable nag-screen, readme information file and license agreement.

With Screensaver Factory you can start your very own screensaver business right now.

Major Functions:

1. Create screensavers from pictures, videos, flash animation and sound files
2. Make self-installing screensaver files and CDs for easy distribution More info
3. Create time and feature limited trial screensavers
4. Make shareware screensavers with nag-screens and registration keys
5. Make screensavers for marketing and promotion
6. Create multi-language screensavers
7. Create clock, calendar and even RSS screensavers

Major Advantages:

1. The standard for screensaver developers. Screensaver Factory is the world's number one screensaver development software. The product has been developed and updated for almost 10 years. Screensaver Factory has helped thousands of creative people and corporations, including many Fortune 500 companies, all around the world achieve their commercial, marketing and personal goals by creating great screensaver projects.
2. Unbeatable set of features. Screensaver Factory is simply the most powerful screensaver development system on the market today. It has everything you need to easily create powerful and professional screensaver products for any purpose, including commercial distribution, marketing, entertainment and personal use. Screensaver Factory has loads of unique features you will find nowhere else, such as embedded banners and web links, clock, calendar, RSS reader, auto updates, unique picture effects and much more.
3. Exclusive constant movement effects for slide show screensavers. Beat the competition. Make your picture slideshow screensavers stand out and look cool by adding constant movement effects which will make your pictures slowly and smoothly slide or rotate and zoom. This will bring your picture screensaver development to the next level.
4. Compatibility and performance. Screensavers created with Screensaver Factory work great on all versions of Windows that are being used today and even on the upcoming Windows 7®.
5. Professional deployment with self-installing packages. Boost your credibility. Create self-installing screensaver packages and CDs that look cool and professional. The screensaver installers produced by Screensaver Factory feature great user interface, allow silent install which is important in corporate environments and support digital signing to meet the most sophisticated credibility standards.
6. Individual approach to every customer. Get assistance when you need it. It helps you with advice and solutions for all your screensaver development needs. The development team listens to every customer, analyzes the comments and suggestions, consults with other customers and improves the product accordingly.
7. Save money and get the best deal. Screensaver Factory is the most affordable commercial screensaver development system on the market today and there are no hidden costs, no royalties and no monthly fees.

Major Features:

1. General

• Create screensavers from pictures, video and flash files
• Create screensavers for sale or marketing
• Add background music and create background music playlists
• Select from over 100 smooth image transition effects
• Built-in compression ensures smallest possible file size
• Incredible quality, compatibility and performance on all PCs

 2. Screensaver Content Options

• Supports all popular image file formats - JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and more
• Supports transparent and animated GIF images and transparent PNG images
• Supports SWF Flash animation
• Supports all popular video formats - AVI, MPEG and WMV
• Add text label to each image
• Customize each screensaver item
  
• Choose image, video and flash display order from sequential, random and mixed
• Add dynamic content from RSS feeds
• Add clock or calendar to your screensaver

2. Graphics and Transition Effects

• Resize images and videos to fit the screen
• Smooth, high quality image resizing
• Over 100 customizable image transition effects
  
• Exclusive constant movement effects - slide, rotate and zoom
• Cool photo frame effect
• Create interesting graphic effects with image masks
  
• Cool background options
  

3. Audio Features

• Add background music from MP3, WAV, WMA and MID sound files
• Create background music playlists with shuffle and mute options
• Add short sound clips to every image

4. Shareware Authoring and Selling Features

• Create feature or time limited screensaver trial versions
• Create single or separate registration keys for your customers
  
• Add nag-banner or nag-screen to facilitate the sale of your screensaver

5. Marketing and Promotion Features

• Open Web address when screensaver exits
• Open Web address when F1 key is pressed
• Display image banner popup when screensaver exits
• Display banner in the screensaver settings window
• Add your logo to all screensaver images

6. Installation and Output Options

• Instantly preview your screensaver in full-screen mode
• Automatically install the screensaver on your computer
• Create standalone, self-installing screensaver packages for easy distribution
• Create screensaver CDs
• Create standalone SCR files
• Digital signature support
• Silent-install support for your screensaver packages

7. Other Features

• Specify the preview image for Windows Display Properties
• Customize screensaver icon
• Customizable screensaver settings and about windows
• Select screensaver exit conditions (e.g. on mouse move, on key press)
• Multi-language support
• Create screensavers with auto updates
• Buld screensavers automatically from the command line

Enhancements: Version 5.0

1. New look and feel. Work faster and accomplish more. The new Screensaver Factory interface is inspiring, up to date and easier to use than ever before.
2. Stunning display effects. Make your still slideshow screensavers so much cooler by adding constant movement. The new display effects will make your pictures slowly and smoothly slide or rotate and zoom. This feature is exclusive to Screensaver Factory and it is really cool. Download a sample screensaver.
3. Much much smoother effects even on huge screens. Make your screensavers look smoother and cooler. The transition effects are now rendered using a completely new technology which ensures that the effects are totally smooth even on big screens with very high resolution.
4. Improved setup system. Updated installer interface will make your screensaver product look modern and up to date with the latest Windows user interfaces.
5. Support for digital signing. Digitally sign your screensaver product to avoid the disturbing yellow Windows User Account Control warning screen and replace it with a legitimately looking Continue screen.
6. Photo frame effect. Create amazing photo-album screensavers by turning on the new photo frame effect and combining it with other effects, such as rotate and zoom and grayscale.
7. New sizing option – resize to fill screen. Create screensavers that work full-screen both on regular and wide screens without exposing the background or changing the aspect ratio. This is achieved by cropping the images just a little bit to make sure the screen is filled completely. Download a sample screensaver.
8. Auto-resize big images to create compact screensavers. Save time with the built-in smooth image scaling feature that comes in handy whenever you need to create a screensaver from very big source images, such as those recorded by modern digital cameras. No more need for resizing the images manually to optimize them for use in a screensaver.
9. RSS feed reading . Create picture slideshow screensavers that read and display information from a single or multiple RSS feeds. Show the news boldly at the center of the screen or unobtrusively in a corner – it is up to you.
10. Transparent PNG image support. Transparent PNG image support lets you expand your creativity and create screensavers that display pictures with transparent or half-transparent areas. Transparency is also supported for logo images.
11. Calendar and clock features. Easily turn your screensaver into something practical by displaying a stylish clock or calendar directly on your screensavers. Easily create cool-looking specialized clock and calendar screensavers. Choose from various clock and calendar styles.
12. Auto updates for your screensavers. Make screensavers that can automatically update themselves by download new images, flash or videos from your website. Of course, this will require your users to have an internet connection and you to implement and maintain the technology and content.
13. Silent install. Screensaver setup packages now support silent setup via command line. This enables easy remote deployment of your screensaver product over large computer networks.
14. Automated screensaver builds. Screensaver Factory can now be used to generate screensavers automatically via command line. This enables application developers to build systems that create screensavers without displaying the Screensaver Factory interface. Click here to learn more.
15. Better compatibility and readiness for the future. Create faster and more compatible screensaver products than ever before. Latest version has been tested with all kinds of Windows® systems, including the upcoming Windows 7®. Be ready for the future with the latest version of Screensaver Factory.
16. Over 100 other improvements and fixes. Besides the major new features and improvements, there were lots of other changes made to improve your experience and the output quality so that you can create the very best screensavers.

Requirements: 64MB of RAM