Thursday, August 20, 2009

Make Back to School Slideshow to Tell Vacation Story

back to school slideshow story

Tell vacation story in slideshow when back to school

Okay, summer vacation is over, and you are going back to school, back to homework, back to teacher,s and above all, back to friends. Back to School, Better Together! So, are you ready to share your summer vacation story with friends or classmates?

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For Back To School Students

Along with the end of summer vacation 2009, a new semester starts. You are now entering a higher grade and meeting new friends, together with old friends, maybe. Therefore, a back-to-school slideshow video is good to say hello to new faces, and to share wonderful summer vacation stories with all friends.

For Teachers

Teachers could do many things to bring students out of wild summer 2009 and back to learning class. Some students may even have some of jitters. In such case, teachers could help students know one another first. Afterwards, many "ice-breaker" games could be played to improve class atmosphere (by Kristin KetteringHam) . Another option is to share summer vacation story one by one. Somebody could narrate a wonderful story, just talking. But for some shy students, it's not an easy job to speak in front of strange persons. However, they can make a video slideshow to tell their vacation story.

Guide to Make Back to school slideshow

What you need
1. Summer vacation photos, videos and optional music
2. Back to school slideshow tool (DVD Slideshow Builder
recommended)
3. DVD Burner and DVD Disc or Youtube account if upload online

Step 1: Add vacation Photos and suitable music

Download and install this slideshow movie DVD creator. Once launched, you will start from Slideshow tab. Here, import favorite pictures/videos and music to the storyboard. If required, double-click media source to edit.
import media to back to school slideshow

Step 2: Change Transition for vacation photos

When your import photo and video, random photo transition will automatically applied to them. But you can change photo transition by clicking transition thumb on storyboard and selecting desired transition in the resulting dialog.
change back to school slideshow transition

Step 3: Author Good looking DVD menu

Many pre-made DVD menu templates are provided on the left of Menu tab. Double click desired menu template to applied. And then right-click on the right to customize menu to get a personalized slideshow DVD menu. Note that you can change slideshow DVD menu background music to favorite songs. To do so, click the browse button and select a music file from local hard drive.
customize back to school slideshow dvd menu

Step 4: Burn vacation Story to DVD or save as video

Now burn your summer vacation story to DVD slideshow so that you can play it on stand-alone class room DVD player or computer DVD player. If you can get on internet from your class room, you could also upload the created video to youtube (or any other video site you want), and play it online when you are telling your vacation story. MP4 format is better for Youtube video.

It's extremely easy to output back to school slideshow, either on DVD or as video file. To do so, go to Create tab, select DVD or MP4 format from the drop-down list and click Start button to go on. Only one thing to note, you should select correct TV standard in Options dialog box. As regard to this, get help from Help button if you don't know about the 'TV Standard' thing.

here is the figure to show you how to upload back-to-school slideshow on Youtube.

upload back-to-school slideshow to youtube image


Tips:

1. Built-in DVD burn engine to author and burn slideshow with menu to DVD. However, you could also create slideshow ISO image and burn slideshow with your favorite DVD burning program, say Nero, Roxio and the free DVD Flick.
2. Enhance Slideshow Video Quality by switching to Best Quality option in Options dialog.
3. The Menu tab could be omitted if you just make back to school slideshow for blog/web page. To do say, just select MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, MPEG-I, MPEG-II as output video formats in the output drop-down list.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

High School Reunion Songs Suggestion

To create High School reunion photo DVD slideshow gifts and personalized High School reunion picture albums with music are wonderful ways to add color to your family reunion. These gifts are unique and memorable keepsakes for the family.


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High School reunion photo slideshow is a great way to show either old class photos or high school reunion photos. Watching reunion photo slideshow at the beginning of high school reunion is a good starter to communicate with your old friends, whatever funny reunion slideshow, peep reunion show, or awkward reunion slideshow. As you know, after making high school reunion slideshow and burning high school reunion slideshow onto DVD, you can enjoy it on TV, projector, and also send reunion slideshow dvd copies to your classmates.

Below is the high school reunion slideshow songs suggestions. Select your favorite one to go with your high school reunion slideshow.



Class of 80s - High School Reunion Slideshow Songs
(Friendship songs for slideshow)

Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Alive And Kicking - Simple Minds
Bad - Michael Jackson
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
Close To Me - The Cure
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears for Fears
Faith - George Michael
Fall On Me - R.E.M.
Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
Human - The Human League
I Need Love - LL Cool J
Land Of Confusion - Genesis
Love Removal Machine - The Cult
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Stay - Oingo Boingo
Stuck With You - Huey Lewis and the News
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
These Dreams - Heart
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Venus - Bananarama
Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
When I Think Of You - Janet Jackson
With Or Without You (Remastered) - U2
You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi

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Class of 90s - High School Reunion Slideshow Songs
(Friendship songs for slideshow)

6 Underground - Becoming X, Sneaker Pimps
A Friend Like You - Geoff Moore
Always and Forever - Raze
Always Be - LaRue
Angels Among Us - Alabama
Ants Marching - Under The Table & Dreaming, Dave Matthews Band
Anytime You Need a Friend - Mariah Carey
Around The World - Homework, Daft Punk
At Your Side - The Corrs
Atliens - Outkast
Basket Case - Dookie, Green Day
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
Best Friend - Queen, Brandy, SCLUB 7
Bittersweet Symphony -Urban Hymns, The Verve
Buddy Holly - Weezer, Weezer
Building A Mystery - Surfacing, Sarah McLachlan
Bulls On Parade - Evil Empire, Rage Against The Machine
California Love (Original Version) - Tupac Shakur
Captain Save a Hoe - E-40
Circle of Friends - Point of Grace
Closing Time - Semisonic
Comedown - Sixteen Stone, Bush
Count on Me - Whitney Houston
Criminal - Tidal, Fiona Apple
Da Funk - Homework, Daft Punk
Dammit - Blink-182
Dancing Nancies - Under The Table & Dreaming, Dave Matthews Band
Don't Speak - Tragic Kingdom, No Doubt
Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys, Backstreet Boys
Fantasy - Mariah Carey
Flagpole Sitta -Harvey Danger
Fly - Sugar Ray
For You I Will - Monica
Friends - Bette Midler
Friends - Michael W. Smith
Friends Will Be Friends - Queen
Friendship Theme (I'll Be There For You) - The Rembrandts
Friendship Train - Gladys Knight & The Pips
God 3:59 Under the Pink, Tori Amos
Good - Better Than Ezra
Goodbye My Friend - Spice Girl
Graduation (Friends Forever) - Vitamin C
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Here Comes the Hotstepper, Ini Kamoze
Hypnotize - Notorious BIG
I'll Make Love to You -II, Boyz II Men
I Care For You - Michele Wagner & David McMullan
I Got 5 on It - Operation Stackola, Luniz
It's No Good - Depeche Mode
Jimi Thing - Under The Table & Dreaming, Dave Matthews Band
Karma Police - OK Computer, Radiohead
Loser - Mellow Gold Beck
Lovefool - The Cardigans
Mr. Jones - August & Everything After, Counting Crows
Music Sounds Better - Stardust
My Friends - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Naked Eye - Fever In Fever Out, Luscious Jackson
No Diggity - Another Level, Blackstreet & Dr. Dre
One True Friend - Bette Midler
Paranoid Android - OK Computer, Radiohead
Playaz Club - Don't Fight the Feelin', Rappin' 4-Tay
Please Remember - Leanne Rimes
Praise You - You've Come a Long Way, Baby Fatboy Slim
Santeria - Sublime, Sublime
Selling The Drama - Throwing Copper, Live
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Sister - Fernando Ortega & John A. Schreiner
Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt
Stupid Girl - Garbage, Garbage
Sumthin'Sumthin' - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, Maxwell
Sure Shot - Ill Communication, The Beastie Boys
Tearin' Up My Heart - NSYNC, NSYNC
Thank You - McMaster and James
Thank You For Being a Friend - Sonshine Generation
The Friendship Song - Fraggle Rock
The Way - All the Pain Money Can Buy, Fastball
There You'll Be - Faith Hill
This One's For the Girls - Martina McBride
Trigger Hippie - Who Can You Trust, Morcheeba
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden, Savage Garden
Undone (The Sweater Song) - Weezer, Weezer
Walkin' On the Sun - Smash Mouth
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
What I Got - Sublime, Sublime
When I Come Around - Dookie ,Green Day
Whenever You Remember - Carrie Underwood
Where It's At - Odelay, Beck
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
With a Little Help From My Friends - Ringo Starr
You'll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins
You'll Never Stand Alone - Whitney Houston
You're My Best Friend - Queen
You've Got a Friend - Carole King, Lucky Dube
You Are Always Next to Me - David Ingersoll
You Got a Friend in Me - Randy Newman & Lyle Lovett
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
(Friendship songs for slideshow)

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Monday, August 03, 2009

Embed Picasa Slideshow with Music in Website

picasa photo slideshow with music

Picasa web album is the fastest photo sharing service from Google. Since it's launched many years ago, more and more people are using Picasa Web album to store their photos, and share photo exclusively with friend and family. Also, they can make picasa web album to public and share with the Picasa community. This tutorial will mainly explain how to make picasa photo slideshow with music, transitions and Ken-Burns effects, and embed in your Myspace Profile, blogger, WordPress page and website. It will be divided into 3 parts:

Part 1. Create Picasa Photo Slideshow with Music
Part 2. Upload Picasa photo slideshow to youtube
Part 3. Embed Picasa Photo Slideshow in website

Part 1. Create Picasa photo slideshow with music

As you know, picasa web album already provides slideshow link for you to embed original (soundless) picasa slideshow in website. Once you've uploaded photos to picasa web album, you could get the link and show off your picasa photos on internet conveniently. Here is the tutorial about how to embed original picasa web album slideshow in website.

By contrary, this article will talk about how to make picasa photo slideshow with music, transitions and Ken-Burns effects, and embed into website, myspace, blogger, wordpress and more. Let's go. It's easy and funny.

Use your favorite photo slideshow maker to make picasa photo slideshow with music. Here I use Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder for example. It's a superb easy to use slideshow making software. Within 3 steps, you can get the compelling photo slideshow with wonderful transitions and Ken-Burn effects. No complicated skills needed.

Making picasa photo slideshow step 1: Download picasa web album photos

You can download entire albums and individual photos onto your computer from Picasa Web Albums.

What you need to download entire Picasa Web Album

  • Picasa MUST be installed on your computer. Download Here.
  • The album owner must enable 'Allow any visitor to download my photos' on the Privacy and Permissions tab of the Settings page. Or you are the owner of Picasa Web Album.
  • Picasa Web Album account. Sign up here.

To Download an entire Picasa web album:

1. From Picasa web album, click the album you'd like to download.
2. From the Download menu above your photos, select Download to Picasa.
3. In Picasa, if you're not signed in to your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums, you'll be prompted to do so.
4. In the window that appears, click the Download button.

save picasa photos to computer

The downloaded albums photos could be found in the 'Downloaded Albums' collection. For Windows, they locate under "My Documents\My Pictures\Downloaded Albums". To download an individual photo, click the Download button above the photo while viewing the photo.

Making picasa photo slideshow step 2: Add picasa photos and music file for picasa photo slideshow


import camera photos/videos

Making picasa photo slideshow step 3: Change picasa photo slideshow transition effect

change picasa photo slideshow transitions

Making picasa photo slideshow step 4: Save picasa photo slideshow to MP4

save picasa photo slideshow to mp4

Part 2. Upload picasa photo slideshow to youtube

When the photo slideshow is ready, open your web browser and sign in youtube.com. Then locate Upload button and click it to start the upload process. You need to select the previous created picasa photo slideshow with music to upload.
After uploaded, it's time to get the embed code for website. Find the embed and right-click to copy. Get illustrated by the following figure.



Part 3. Embed Picasa Photo Slideshow in website

It's almost done. Now open a blogger post, web page or myspace profile and paste the embed code before saving changes.

Embed picasa photo slideshow in website:(between <body>and </body>):

embed picasa photo slideshow in website

Embed picasa photo slideshow on myspace profile:

embed picasa photo slideshow on myspace profile

Embed picasa photo slideshow into blogger post:

embed picasa photo slideshow to blogger

Save changes and preview your picasa photo slideshow on website now!

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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Create Facebook Video with Pictures and Music

make facebook video and embed to other web sites

Facebook is a social networking website that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. It is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.Users can use Facebook to keep up with friends, family, classmate and any others.

Video is the default tab on your Facebook profile. There, you can upload created videos, or record video from Webcam on your computer for Facebook. Through Facebook videos, you can show your recent portraits, favorite photos and even hand-made crafts with friends. It's convenient and easy. You can even tell a friends how to master facebook by facebook instruction videos.

Here is a Facebook Video Example on my Facebook profile, regarding to iphone photos and 3D photo transition effects. Enjoy and follow subsequent tutorial to make facebook video and upload video to facebook.com. You could also embed facebook video to other web site to share with more people.


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Facebook Video Making Tutorial

What you'll need:

1. Digital Photos and Music
2. Facebook Video Editing Software
3. Facebook account (Register Free)

Step 1: Add pictures and music

Download and install this facebook video editing software. Once launched, you will start from Slideshow tab. Here, import favorite pictures/videos and music to the storyboard. If required, double-click media source to edit.

import media to make facebook video

Step 2: Change Photo Transition Effect

When your import photo and video, random photo transition will automatically applied to them. But you can change photo transition by clicking transition thumb on storyboard and selecting desired transition in the resulting dialog.

change facebook video transition

Step3: Save Facebook video to MPEG-4

Go to Create tab and in the Output formats drop-down list, select MP4 as the video format. Then click Start to save video for facebook. You can also go to Options button to customize video options, e.g., the facebook video resolution, frame rate, bitrate, audio sample rate, etc.

save video for facebook

Facebook Video Upload

Following video formats are supported, but not limited to. And I think the best video format for facebook video is MPEG-4 Vidoe. Note that Facebook video size should be limited to 100 MB and Facebook video length under 2 minutes.

* MPEG-4 Video (mp4, mpeg4)
* AVI Video (avi)
* Windows Media Video (wmv)
* MPEG Video (mpg, mpeg)
* Windows Media Video (asf)
* QuickTime Movie (mov)
* Mobile Video (3gpp, 3gp, 3g2)
* Matroska Format (mkv)
* Flash Player Video (flv)
* DVD Video (vob)
* Ogg Format (ogm)

Here is the instruction to upload video to facebook.

Once login to your facebook account, go to Video tab, you will see figure as follow. Click Upload to open uploading page. Then click Browse button to choose desired video to upload. While the video is uploading to facebook, you can also fill some necessary information about your facebook video.


upload video to facebook


Embed Facebook Video to Website

If you want to share facebook video with more people, you could embed facebook video to other web pages, say metacafe, myspace, and more. Here is how:

Go to the facebook video you want to share, then locate Embed This Video button. Click it to get the facebook video embed code. With the facebook video code, you can paste it to any web page that supports video embedding. Therefore, you can share facebook video with more people.



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