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Making Photomovies
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Making Photomovies
Here’s a basic outline of the process of making photomovies (slideshows) .
• I use the ‘Slideshow’ feature in iPhoto on the Apple Mac.
• and iTunes, which links to iPhoto, for the sound
• and Garageband to edit/trim the music/soundtracks.
* All this software comes free with the Apple Mac
– and Apple QuickTime Pro –
Making a slideshow (photomovie) in iPhoto – simplified version
1. Have some images in iPhoto and audio in iTunes.
2. Create a new ‘Album’ in iPhoto – give the Album a working title.
3. Choose a group of photos and sequence them in the Album view.
4. Click on the arrow at the left bottom of the iPhoto window, or click the ‘Slideshow’ icon – the making-process (procedure) is slightly different in each – I usually click the arrow at the left bottom of the iPhoto window, and use this process.
5. In the pop-up box (which comes up after clicking the arrow)
Select ‘Settings’ – from this I usually select :
‘Transition: Dissolve’, slow-dissolve,
‘Play each slide for – 5 – seconds’ (to start with),
and unselect all other tick boxes.
* try and keep things simple to start.
In the pop-up box (next to Settings):
Select ‘Music’, select your soundtrack from iTunes.
and ‘Save settings’
(and now make a QuickTime Movie)
** I view the slideshow in Quicktime, because that’s the way they will be used, and the timing is different if I play the slideshow straight from iPhoto.
6. Making QuickTime Movie
– Click ‘Share/Export’ from the menu bar, in the pop-up window (called ‘Export Photos’).
– Select ‘QuickTime’ and type in width, height and ‘Display image for – (5.00) – seconds’. (My movies are either 720×540 or 720×480)
– Click ‘Export’ – export to desktop initially.
* This will give you a ‘rough-cut’ of your movie – which will give you some idea of length and how the images interweave with the soundtrack. You’ll probably need to go through this process a few times to get a ‘fine-cut’. In a fine-cut the soundtrack will be the right length and the images will be sequenced in an appropriate order.
Once this is OK then you have one more step for making it viewable.
** You’ll need QuickTime Pro for this bit – downloadable from Apple
7. Open the QuickTime movie of you slideshow. In QuickTime Pro click ‘File/Export’ and in the pop-up window select ‘Export : Movie to Hinted Movie’ – and save with new name (I usually add an ‘h’ to the title of the movie)
8. This QuickTime move is now ready to upload to a web site. I have my own web site and use Dreamweaver.
* If you haven’t got your own own web site you’ll need to experiment with the direct upload to dedicated Video web sites – I don’t know much about these – but YouTube, GoogleVideo come to mind, and blip.tv looks interesting.
***** and …. leave me a note if you manage to make and publish a photomovie!
Hope this helps.
Good luck!!!
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