ULTRABRA
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Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
I need to present some of my music to a set of Nature photographs, as a slide show. Can any of you advise some suggested ways to achieve this?
I have the music (currently as a 44.1khz/24 bit file); and I have the photographs as high res .JPG format. I don't have any video editing software, but can invest in some. I know only the very basics at the moment of using video editing software, and no idea how best to incorporate the music at its highest possible quality.
The aim is to make 2 things :
1. A movie file that can be easily played on a PC, at the highest possible quality of video and sound.
2. A Youtube upload of the same file, at whatever is the best possible quality for that medium.
If anyone has any advice how to approach this, I would appreciate.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/18 07:34:11
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I knocked up this video in a couple of hours with Sony Vegas, very easy to drag and drop and stills and apply fades or other effects as needed.
I've also done DVDs from Sony Vegas, very easy to follow the rendering instructions.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/18 15:54:29
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I think most video editing programs have presets that allow you to output your video/slideshow to match your intended audience. I use Vegas Pro and it lets me render out to a wide variety of formats. If you're looking for a video editor somebody in the Deals forum had posted a link to Corel's Black Friday sale which includes Video Studio. It's supposed to be pretty good from what I've read. http://www.corel.com/en/special-offers/
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/19 03:02:32
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Thanks for the feedback.
I checked out Sony Vegas --- they seem to have 3 versions Edit, Normal, and Suite, with quite a difference between them $200 on each level.
I notice all have Max bit depth / sampling rate 24-bit / 192 kHz (and I checked out their consumer version Vegas Movie Studio has Max bitrate / bit depth 16-bit / 48 kHz : so will that mean that the Pro version will have higher quality audio, or does it just mean when its converted to movie format, the audio quality is in the end the same?
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/19 06:58:00
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Still photo slide show with music is about as basic as any video editing software may be able to do. Check out the free Windows Movie Maker. https://youtu.be/CCzk2_yQ2BA I found WMV format to be the smallest size video for Windows so far, but if your video consist of mainly photos, the video size will be small regardless of video format. I think (not too sure) most video format may also compress your audio.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/19 14:16:22
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I asked exactly the same question a couple years ago, got a lot of good advice, and ended up using Movie Maker. It's simple but did exactly what I wanted: create a slide show with dissolves and my own music behind it.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/20 02:59:34
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Yes, I agree, a slide show is pretty simple in video editing terms. But how about the audio, will Movie Maker deliver a high quality result? The final file is going to be played at an event in a large space, and needs to be highest quality possible.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/20 03:35:51
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/20 12:58:54
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I use Windows Movie Maker for the video's I've done. It handles your photos and video clips and I have found it to be extremely easy to use. The fact that it's free and probably already on your computer if you have the Windows operating system is a bonus. I have purchased a few "more advanced" video editing programs and have spent many hours in frustration trying to get them to do a simple video. After wasting many hours, I took the pics and video and music files from the folder, threw them in WMM and had a finished video in no time at all. Here's a few examples done in Windows Movie Maker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLsKzreM7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmLXESjGWs&t=346s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNknV1GhFMM It's a way to get it done quickly and efficiently. You can use WMM without too big of a learning curve. That same thing generally can't be said about the more expensive video editing programs. Of course, in the bigger programs, you can do all sorts of fancy stuff that WMM won't do.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/20 17:44:35
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I've been using the Cyberlink PowerDirector for many years... not a bunch of money with good features. http://www.cyberlink.com/
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/21 17:08:11
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☄ Helpfulby tomixornot 2016/11/21 18:37:54
ULTRABRA
Yes, I agree, a slide show is pretty simple in video editing terms. But how about the audio, will Movie Maker deliver a high quality result? The final file is going to be played at an event in a large space, and needs to be highest quality possible.
With a video just pull the finished video into Sonar and add the audio last. You can have "scratch track" audio while creating the video just mute the video's audio when you've gotten it into Sonar and add your high quality sound track as the very last step.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/22 10:31:35
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i need just the opposite...
i need to have the finished audio in first,
then take both video and still pictures and add them in precisely.
moviemaker can't quit do that, i've found out.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/22 10:33:16
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my vid done with movie maker
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/22 12:19:43
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batsbrew
i need just the opposite...
i need to have the finished audio in first,
then take both video and still pictures and add them in precisely.
moviemaker can't quit do that, i've found out.
If your finished audio is one file that runs the entire time of the video, you can take that finished audio and make your video with it. After you export the video, if the audio is less than satisfactory, you can put the video in Sonar and re-apply the audio. I use this process with Filmora as I don't trust its audio (I don't recommend Filmora). That's how I did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T2LK5XdN4U
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/11/23 08:48:53
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I work in the same direction as Bat....
Audio first, add pics after the fact.
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Re: Adding music to photo slide show : advice needed
2016/12/02 16:28:03
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Ya, if your needs are fairly simple and straight forward, Movie Maker will work. I've used it in the past.
If you want to step up to full blown video editing software, Cyberlink Power Director is probably the easiest to learn by far.
It has a wealth of features for video, photo and audio production. I picked it up last year, not having done any video work beyond Movie Maker and it was very easy to dive into right away.
It's on sale right now as well. (Get one of the "suites" - more goodies included.)
Oh...and get a good graphics card if you're working with HD video. Doesn't matter if your PC is a racehorse, you'll need a reeeaallly good graphics card to cope with HD.
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