Now we are going to add audio/background music to the slide show. All the small squares should now be filled with transitions and your Storyboard should look something like this: For a larger project it is best to select and use just one transition effect which will then be inserted automatically into all the spaces once you have selected the transition and duly highlighted it, click on ‘Clip’ in the menu bar and select ‘Add to storyboard’. The project I am using for this guide includes only 22 photos so I dragged and dropped different transitions randomly into the Storyboard. That is okay in a small project but once you get up to 100+ photos or more it can be a right pain. Unfortunately there is no ‘Randomize’ option available so if you wish to use random transitions you have to insert them individually, one at a time. You can preview the effect of each transition by highlighting one (left click on it) and then hitting the play button on the preview player. Under ‘Step 2’ click on “View video transitions’ and all available transitions will be displayed in the ‘Collections Pane’, replacing the photos. Okay, with the ‘Storyboard’ view enabled, highlight all the photos in the ‘Collections Pane’ using select all and then just drag and drop the first photo into the first big square on the Storyboard… all the rest will follow in order: The large squares are for your photos and the smaller squares for the transitions. I always start off the project in ‘Storyboard’ mode, it is much easier to work with. To switch between the ‘Storyboard’ view and the ‘Timeline’ view just click on ‘Show Storyboard’ or ‘Show Timeline’. Now we need to get those photos from the Collections Pane to the Storyboard/Timeline. All the photos should now be displayed within the ‘Collections Pane’:
Now ‘select all’ the photos in the folder (remember, ‘Crtl’ + ‘A’) and then click on the ‘Import’ button. Click on the ‘Import Pictures’ option and then browse to the location of the folder which contains your photos. The obvious first step is to import the photos into your project. Each of those sections should be expanded by clicking on the little ‘v’ icon, so they look like this:
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Windows Movie Maker:Īs you can see the GUI is clear and quite intuitive with all the necessary steps set out on the left hand side of the screen.
You will see that all the photos now bear the same name and are numbered sequentially. Now just left click on any blank space or, alternatively, hit ‘Enter’. for the project used in this guide I typed in “Beautiful Tasmania (01)” without the quotes. Type in an appropriate title followed by the number 01 in parenthesis, e.g.
With all the photos now highlighted, right click on the first photo and select ‘Rename’. Now we have to make sure they retain that order, Windows has a nasty habit of jumbling them all back up again: Select all the photos in the folder by either pressing the ‘Ctrl and ‘A’ keys simultaneously or left click on the first photo and then on the last photo while also holding down the ‘Shift’ key*. Just drag and drop them around the folder until you have them in the desired sequence. Okay, next we need to arrange the photos in the same order as you would like them displayed in the slide show. Now just drag and drop or copy and paste all the required photos into the new folder. Type an appropriate title into the dialogue box under the new folder and then hit ‘Enter’. To do this open ‘My Pictures’ and right click on any blank space, select ‘New’ and then ‘Folder’. If you wish to use photos from a number of different folders then you should start off by creating a new folder in ‘My Pictures’.
This is the most important and often neglected aspect of the whole procedure, if your photos are not arranged, named and numbered correctly it can cause some major headaches.įirstly, make sure all your photos are contained within the one folder. There are a few minor GUI changes in Vista/Windows 7 as well as an extra final option to burn to DVD using the native ‘Windows DVD Maker’. I shall be using the XP version of Windows Movie Maker. Assuming there are others among you who may struggle with this chore, what follows is a basic guide for making a simple slide show. It isn’t all that difficult but, as with most things, is much easier when you know how.
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Over the years I have been asked on many occasions how to put together a photo slide show using Windows Movie Maker.
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