[Archived] Making A Slide Show Movie

[Ozz]

I want to make a simple slide show of about 30 photos, set to a backing track of music. I have never had any skills in Moviemaker and tried to do it with this software but found it frustratingly annoying and awkward to use.

I just want them to fade in , from black, stay on for a few seconds, then fade out to black. Then the same again for all the photos for the duration of the song.

Can anyone please suggest if Moviemaker is easy to do this with, and tell me I'm an idiot or alternatively point me in the right direction of some other freeware/shareware etc I can access that is compatible with a luddite?

[J*B]

I cant think of many things easier to use than Moviemaker other than iMovie, and you clearly dont have a mac to be talking about moviemaker.

I think maybe you just need an hour sat down playing with Moviemaker to achieve what you want, its all very simple.

Have you tried tutorials on youtube to guide you through each step? Basically all your doing is file, import (music), then file import every picture you want in this slideshow, then drag both the sound track and the pictures on to the time line, click before each picture and find effects, then fade in, and repeat the same at the end of each picture but finding fade to black.

[LeChuck]

What version of Windows do you have Ozz?

Microsoft stopped making Movie Maker a while ago, but you can still download the old versions, 2.6 is available here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D6BA5972-328E-4DF7-8F9D-068FC0F80CFC&displaylang=en It used to be incredibly easy to do what you want.

Nowadays all Microsoft release is Windows Live Movie Maker, which is nowhere near as good. I'm going to hazard a guess and say you tried it with that? If so try the 2.6 link above

[BlueWhiteDynamite]

It can be done using Googles Picasa very easily.

All you have to do is select make a movie, import your 30 photos, select your song and 'fit photos into audio', screen size (16:9, 1080 HD etc) and away you go.

Plus it's free and a great alternative to Apples iPhoto

[roverandout]

i have made one a few weeks ago about rovers, though it may be to cack to show it to people

[ustas19]

Maybe you don't believe me, but few week ago I started my home service and it help you make what you want.

Go to http://makemovie777.com upload your photos, upload your music and click make movie That's all:)

Feedback me, please.

I want to make a simple slide show of about 30 photos, set to a backing track of music.