GiliSoft Slideshow Maker for Mac

Turn your photos and video clips into a slideshow with music on your Mac. Bring the story to life with titles, narration, and transitions, then export a video to share.

  • Combine photos, video clips, and music on a timeline
  • Add titles, recorded narration, or text-to-speech audio
  • Apply creative effects and export to MP4, MOV, and more
Mac laptop showing a photo slideshow with transitions, music, and video export

Turn Your Photos into Slideshow Videos with Music

GiliSoft Slideshow Maker for Mac turns a collection of photos and video clips into a story people can watch. Bring together wedding pictures, holiday memories, class activities, or product shots, arrange them on the timeline, and preview your slideshow as you create it.

Give each scene a voice with background music, recorded narration, and titles or captions. The built-in text-to-speech tool turns a written script into spoken audio, with language, voice, volume, and rate controls. Keep the soundtrack, text, and visual scenes organized on their own timeline tracks.

Make the slideshow your own with transitions, filters, LUT looks, overlays, stickers, and visual effects. Refine individual clips with crop, color, animation, beauty, mosaic, and audio controls, so the presentation feels consistent from the opening title to the final scene.

Preview the complete story, then export a video for family sharing, event playback, lessons, or business presentations. Choose MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, MKV, or GIF in the export window, and set the quality and resolution for your destination. Save the project separately to return to the timeline and edit it later.

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Create Your Slideshow, Scene by Scene

Build Photo and Video Timelines

Import photos and video clips, place them on the timeline, adjust their order, and combine different media into one Mac slideshow project.

Transitions and Camera-Movement Effects

Choose from transition libraries, camera movements, slides, covers, shapes, unfolds, and other scene changes, or add transitions randomly.

Titles, Captions, and Text Templates

Add opening titles, ending cards, dialog boxes, captions, and styled text to explain scenes and give the slideshow a clear structure.

Music, Audio Recording, and Text to Speech

Add a soundtrack, record computer sound or narration, and turn written text into spoken audio with language, voice, volume, and rate controls.

Filters, LUTs, and Visual Effects

Apply split-screen, shake, LUT, film, distortion, vintage, dynamic, freeze-frame, and other visual treatments from the built-in libraries.

Overlays and Stickers

Add frames, light leaks, old-film looks, viewfinder overlays, decorative stickers, and other visual layers, then position and resize them in the preview.

Focused Clip Adjustments

Refine selected clips with crop, audio, mosaic, beauty, animation, and color controls while keeping the project centered on slideshow creation.

Video and Audio Export

Choose video or audio output, set quality and resolution, and export slideshow videos as MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, or GIF.

Testimonials

The timeline keeps photos, short clips, titles, and music organized without making a family project feel complicated.

- Olivia M., Community Program Lead

Text templates, voice recording, and text to speech help us prepare clear event and class presentations on a Mac.

- Kevin T., School Media Coordinator

The transition, filter, overlay, and sticker libraries give repeat slideshow projects enough visual variety.

- Rachel P., Communications Manager

We can preview the project, refine individual clips, and export the finished story from the same workspace.

- Brian C., Mac User

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Explore the Mac workspace for arranging photos and clips, adding music and text, choosing transitions, and exporting your slideshow.

Start or reopen a slideshow project

Choose the project aspect ratio, create a new slideshow, load an existing project, or search saved projects.

A Slideshow for Every Story

Families and event organizers

Celebrate a wedding, birthday, graduation, or reunion with photos, short clips, favorite songs, and personal messages.

Teachers and community groups

Turn class activities and event photos into a narrated presentation. Use captions to identify people, places, and important moments.

Businesses and creators

Present products, showcase a portfolio, or recap an event with branded titles, music, transitions, and a consistent visual style.

Make a Photo Slideshow with Music on Mac

1. Add your photos and clips

Create a project and select its aspect ratio. Import media through Material > Local Sources, then add it to the timeline in story order.

Import and arrange your media

2. Add music and your message

Place music on the audio track, add titles and captions, and record narration or generate speech from your script. Preview scene changes as you add transitions.

Add sound and text

3. Preview and export

Watch the complete timeline, check sound and text timing, then open Export. Choose a format, quality, resolution, and output folder to save the finished video.

Export your slideshow

Get More from Your Mac Slideshow

Transitions and creative effects

Add scene changes, filters, overlays, and stickers to support the mood of your slideshow.

Explore the creative tools

Crop and refine a clip

Adjust a selected scene's framing, color, sound, and appearance before exporting the full presentation.

Refine individual clips

Follow the complete workflow

See the Mac interface for project setup, importing, timeline editing, narration, and final export.

Read the Slideshow Maker for Mac guide

Media Review
Soft321 award

Photo and video slideshow creation for Mac users Editors highlighted practical tools for turning mixed photo and clip collections into polished slideshow videos with music, text, and transitions.

FileHeap award

More control than a basic photo slideshow maker Review notes praised the mix of import support, subtitle options, soundtrack tools, preview controls, visual effects, and device-friendly output.

SnapFiles award

Good fit for repeat event, class, and family projects The product is strongest when Mac users need slideshow videos with editing touches such as crop, text, audio, transitions, overlays, filters, and flexible export.

Slideshow Maker for Mac FAQ

How do I make a photo slideshow with music on Mac?

Create a project in GiliSoft Slideshow Maker for Mac, choose the aspect ratio, and import your photos and clips through Material > Local Sources. Add them to the timeline in the order you want, place music on the audio track, and add titles or transitions. Preview the complete slideshow, then use Export to save the finished video.

Can I combine photos and video clips in the same slideshow?

Yes. Import both photos and video clips and arrange them together on the timeline. Use separate tracks for supporting elements such as text, music, and narration, then preview the sequence to check that the scenes and sound work together.

Can I record narration or turn text into speech?

Yes. Use the built-in audio recording tool to record spoken narration or computer sound for your project. For text-to-speech narration, enter your script, choose a language and voice, adjust volume and rate, audition the result, and generate the spoken audio.

Which formats can I export my slideshow to?

The Mac export window offers MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, and GIF, with quality and resolution controls. Select Video to save the complete visual slideshow, or Audio for sound-only output. Choose the output folder and export the finished file.

Why does an imported photo not appear in my slideshow?

Importing a photo adds it to the media library, not automatically to the slideshow timeline. Add the photo from the library to the timeline, then move the playhead over its scene and preview it. Check that it is placed on the intended visual track.

Can I save a slideshow project and continue editing later?

Yes. Save your project and use Load Project on the start screen to reopen it for further editing. Keep the source photos, clips, and audio available. Export the finished slideshow separately when you need a video to play or share.

Is there a Windows version of GiliSoft Slideshow Maker?

Yes. GiliSoft has separate Mac and Windows editions. This page provides the macOS installer and Mac user guide. For a Windows PC, visit GiliSoft Slideshow Maker for Windows.

Bring Your Photos to Life on Mac

Create a slideshow with music, titles, narration, and creative effects. Preview your story, then export a video to share.

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