

I suggest that you limit the use of transitions unless they are very short, like 0.5 seconds. You can always modify these on the timeline. Then go to the timeline and edit.įor music, you can select several songs in SlideShow Maker and look at the total duration to see if you have enough. You will need to sort the photos in StoryBoard mode (the easiest) or on the timeline. How fast can the person turn the pages after a quick glance at the 8 photos? Imagine putting 1099 photos in a photo album in random order and handing it to someone to look at your grandson. 1099 photos at 3 seconds will give you a 55 minute video that will be quite boring unless you have a story with narration, titles (description of what, where, when and who) along the way. I have found that 3 seconds viewing time per photo is about optimal unless there is something very interesting to see or describe with narration. Does it have new features or is it just a new interface of the same thing as you looking to automate the whole thing, just showing photos in any order, or to tell a story? Choose files from your computer, phone, Facebook, and Instagram. That looks like a new interface for SlideShow Maker. Easily upload photos by clicking Add More Photos on the top left-hand corner of your template.
#Create a photostory how to#
See this tutorial for how to do this - although it is for Movie Edit Pro, the principles and method are the same for Photostory - you will need to work in Timeline mode when importing the individual slideshows to make the composite slideshow to ctreate the disc. There is no 'best template' what I would pick may not be to your taste - the choice is yours - you an play the template to see what you are going to get - see image belowįor 1099 photos I would consider breaking up the slideshow in to several slideshows - this can be done in Photostory and the DVD generation will take care of the menus for you. Select Template - what is the best template for my grandson's photo's from birth to 5 years old, i.e., 1099 photo's? The number of images used will be limited to the music length to provide a reasonable viewing time per imageģ. The display times for the images will be adjusted to fit to the length of the music the default is 7 seconds if the 1099 images are in one slideshow you need a long piece of music.

#Create a photostory free#
Its available in both free and paid (Pro) versions the free version is limited to just 10 photos per slideshow. Its easy to select the images you want, add your music, and then apply over 20 different transitions between slides. What is Media Length - Adapt slideshow length to music? Icecream Slideshow Maker is a basic but easy-to-use slideshow maker for all versions of Windows. Ī DVD has a maximum capacity of ~ 2hrs runtime - this leaves you with ~ 6 secs per image display time.ġ. I am trying to build a slideshow of 1099 photo's.
