Making a video with Music

[Connie]

I was wondering if anyone could help me.

I'm pretty sure I can get the still pictures onto a disk, but I was wondering how the heck you get music on there too.

Any help?

I have so many pictures from the Islands that I want to make one for everyone that has ever been there with us.

Thanks!

[Anthony]

I know iPhoto lets you have music with your slide shows - not sure if you can burn a DVD from there or not but may be worth checking out.

[Connie]

Anthony....what's Iphoto. I thought it was a website, but it's not.

[byado18]

Iphoto is a photo program on the Mac!

[Anthony]

Yes sorry that is Mac only - I was confused thinking about iTunes.

[California Girl]

Connie, the software that came with my Canon camera has a program that does that. What kind of camera do you have? If it's a Canon and you installed the CD that came with it, the program is called "ZoomBrowser".

[Cid]

If you're on a Windows machine, you can use Windows Movie Maker. It's included in Windows (XP or Vista). Go to your start menu and you should find it there.

Once you open the program, there is a step by step "wizard" that will walk you through the process including adding music and burning to a disc.

Here's a link to the Movie Maker help page too:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... e/faq.mspx

Movie Maker is a great beginners video program that's easy to use. I hope this helps, and happy movie making!

Peace,

Cid

[California Girl]

Cid - I tried Movie Maker and it wouldn't recognize a .mov designation, which is what my camera produces. Is there some way to convert it? Movie Maker looks like fun.

[Cid]

.mov is an Apple Quicktime format. There are many converters available for free. I downloaded this one and it seemed to convert files fairly easily:

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

Select "The RAD Video Tools" link.

Once you install and open the program, you'll see that the top section is a browser. Find the files from your camera that you want to convert and select them.

In the bottom part of the program you'll see a bunch of buttons. We're only concerned with the one marked "convert files". Click that button and an options dialog box pops up. Just leave all the options alone and click "convert". Another box will pop up labeled "Bink Converter" with a smaller box labeled "video compression". In that small box, there will be a pull down menu where you can select the compression type. At this point things will vary a bit depending what software you already have on your computer. If you have an option there to choose any type of "wmv" setting, that would be ideal. The next best option would be "h.264". If you don't have either option, the next best thing would be "full frames(uncompressed)". Be forewarned, if you use "full frames", the file you create will be huge! Make sure you have plenty of disc space. I turned a 5mb test file into a 220mb file!

The default setting on the converter will make the file in the new format in the same folder as the original. It will also be the same name except for the extension. That will now be .avi. You can now import this new file into Movie Maker. When you are all done with your project in Movie Maker, you can delete the converted file if you want, or you can save it for future use!

Hope this helps....

Peace,
Cid

[California Girl]

Cid - YOU ROCK!! Thanks! I'll give it a try this weekend!

[Connie]

Thanks to all and especially Cid.

I was able to import some pictures and I have ALOT more on my camera and a friends camera.

Actually, it's pretty easy to use!

[Cid]

Glad I was able to help...