Show-Me-How Videos:
- Tutorial Videos Make a Movie
- Tutorial Videos: Movie Files from your Camera
- Tutorial Videos:39.Record a Movie from your Webcam
This is different from Picasa’s slideshow feature in that the end result is a single file – a .wmv movie file. Once the movie is created, you can upload it to your Picasa Web Album, or better yet, to Youtube. It’s a single click to create movie and upload to Youtube. You must already have a Youtube account. The .wmv file will playback on any computer with Windows Media Player. If you want to play it on a TV’s DVD player, you need one more step. In Vista there is a DVDMaker that comes with Windows. Just open that up and add your .wmv file to it – then burn DVD. If you’re on XP, you need some other software like MyDVD from Roxio. For Macintosh, I believe iDVD will do the trick.
The movie maker capability in Picasa is very basic. For example, if you would like one song for the first 10 slides and another song for the remaining slides – it can’t do it – one song per movie … period. Our favorite *free* program for making fancier slide show movies is Photo Story 3. (Tutorial video: download and install Photo Story 3). It allows for many different songs on the sound track. It will even create the music for you and make it end at the right place. You can also add narration.
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I recently did a small video and became amazed to learn the behind the scene unseen work of making movies. The whole editing and post production aspect of movie making motivates me the most. That’s when I started searching left and right to find out more on recording movies. I wanted to optimize my know how on the activity to expert level. Therefore I even started a blog to archive my opinions & views to share with anyone wanting to expand in this field.
ReplyDeleteI recently began using Picasa for Virtual Tours. I found that the first movie was easy to upload via the "Upload to YouTube" button, however after that first upload, Picasa stalls with a window popup "preparing to upload video" and sits indefinately. I have since had to upload directly from the YouTube site and hopefully there is a fix for this Picasa issue. There are many comments in the user forums with the same issue. Any help will be appreciated.
ReplyDeletei had Picassa and made some great slideshows,it was a free program and i loved it..But when they cleaned up my computer i lost the program,trying to get it back.Thank you.
ReplyDeleteit's fantastic
ReplyDeleteI have way more pictures in my movie than the song unless they are only on the screen for 1 second. I'd like to be able to add an additional song but can't see if that's even possible. I really don't want to use the song Inagodadavida! :)
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