creating slideshow with music.

Overlag · 10 Oct 2007 at 12:34

not sure if this is the correct place to put this so move if need be.

im looking at making a video, well i slideshow of some pictures, with some music in the backround.. around 4minutes long. how will i go about this? i know nothing at all! lol

would MS movie maker do this? and how would i do it?

thanks

Messiah Khan · 10 Oct 2007 at 13:13

Move maker would do this. Open all the pictures you want into movie maker, drag and drop them onto the timeline, then do the same with the music and hey presto you have the slideshow. It really is that easy.

Simian · 10 Oct 2007 at 13:36

If you have Nero, with Nero Vision installed, you can use that!... just the same as Movie Maker!..

Overlag · 10 Oct 2007 at 13:47

messiah khan said:
Move maker would do this. Open all the pictures you want into movie maker, drag and drop them onto the timeline, then do the same with the music and hey presto you have the slideshow. It really is that easy.

hell yea, i had no idea it would be so easy to do... didnt really need to post this

thanks all

Messiah Khan · 10 Oct 2007 at 13:56

Glad to be of help.

Tosk · 10 Oct 2007 at 15:22

ProShow Gold, is a cool tool to do what your asking

you can all kinds of weird things in it.

Messiah Khan · 10 Oct 2007 at 16:04

Tosk said:
ProShow Gold, is a cool tool to do what your asking

you can all kinds of weird things in it.

As long as it doesn't invlove loads of transition types. Had a guy show a slideshow he's created at one of the Photography clubs I go to, and I think he's managed to use just about every transition style possible. Really got on my nerves after the first 2 minutes. The slideshow then proceeeded to last over 20 minutes.

Powerpoint style transitions = fail!

Entai · 10 Oct 2007 at 18:12

You could always try Microsoft Photo Story 3, will do exactly what you want, it's very intuitive and easy to produce fantastic results, (with or without transitions), and best of all it's free!!

Red and White · 10 Oct 2007 at 18:33

Messiah Khan said:
Move maker would do this. Open all the pictures you want into movie maker, drag and drop them onto the timeline, then do the same with the music and hey presto you have the slideshow. It really is that easy.

on my old computer movie maker didnt work for some unknown reason so i started using nero and other things - all very painful to use.

after reading your post i gave movie maker another go(id forgot all about it

) and all i can say is thank you so much for posting this

its so much better than nero! it does exactly what i want and you can overlay text!

with nero i could only have 99 slides in a slideshow and the smallest i could get the file was 250mb. with movie maker i get all 300 slides plus it was only 79mb. :cool:

rickyt · 10 Oct 2007 at 19:27

I use ProShow Gold myself amongst other programs but , I agree with using PhotoStory.
It is fantastic and will render your pictures very quickly . It will even generate music in different styles for you from begining to end . It's very good . It creates the final slide show as a .wmv to show on a Pc but there are programs to convert these to put onto DVD.

Overlag · 10 Oct 2007 at 23:56

Red and White said:
on my old computer movie maker didnt work for some unknown reason so i started using nero and other things - all very painful to use.

after reading your post i gave movie maker another go(id forgot all about it) and all i can say is thank you so much for posting this its so much better than nero! it does exactly what i want and you can overlay text!

with nero i could only have 99 slides in a slideshow and the smallest i could get the file was 250mb. with movie maker i get all 300 slides plus it was only 79mb.

yeah i was supprised my slide show that was 4:30mins long with around 7seconds per picture was only 10mb... nice!

came out nice...shame the reason i made it but thats another story.