The large squares are for your photos and the smaller squares for the transitions. I always start off the project in ‘Storyboard’ mode, it is much easier to work with. To switch between the ‘Storyboard’ view and the ‘Timeline’ view just click on ‘Show Storyboard’ or ‘Show Timeline’. Now we need to get those photos from the Collections Pane to the Storyboard/Timeline. All the photos should now be displayed within the ‘Collections Pane’: Now ‘select all’ the photos in the folder (remember, ‘Crtl’ + ‘A’) and then click on the ‘Import’ button. Click on the ‘Import Pictures’ option and then browse to the location of the folder which contains your photos. The obvious first step is to import the photos into your project. Each of those sections should be expanded by clicking on the little ‘v’ icon, so they look like this: Windows Movie Maker:Īs you can see the GUI is clear and quite intuitive with all the necessary steps set out on the left hand side of the screen. You will see that all the photos now bear the same name and are numbered sequentially. Now just left click on any blank space or, alternatively, hit ‘Enter’. for the project used in this guide I typed in “Beautiful Tasmania (01)” without the quotes. Type in an appropriate title followed by the number 01 in parenthesis, e.g. With all the photos now highlighted, right click on the first photo and select ‘Rename’. Now we have to make sure they retain that order, Windows has a nasty habit of jumbling them all back up again: Select all the photos in the folder by either pressing the ‘Ctrl and ‘A’ keys simultaneously or left click on the first photo and then on the last photo while also holding down the ‘Shift’ key*. Just drag and drop them around the folder until you have them in the desired sequence. Okay, next we need to arrange the photos in the same order as you would like them displayed in the slide show. Now just drag and drop or copy and paste all the required photos into the new folder. Type an appropriate title into the dialogue box under the new folder and then hit ‘Enter’. To do this open ‘My Pictures’ and right click on any blank space, select ‘New’ and then ‘Folder’. If you wish to use photos from a number of different folders then you should start off by creating a new folder in ‘My Pictures’. This is the most important and often neglected aspect of the whole procedure, if your photos are not arranged, named and numbered correctly it can cause some major headaches.įirstly, make sure all your photos are contained within the one folder. There are a few minor GUI changes in Vista/Windows 7 as well as an extra final option to burn to DVD using the native ‘Windows DVD Maker’. I shall be using the XP version of Windows Movie Maker. Assuming there are others among you who may struggle with this chore, what follows is a basic guide for making a simple slide show. It isn’t all that difficult but, as with most things, is much easier when you know how. Over the years I have been asked on many occasions how to put together a photo slide show using Windows Movie Maker.
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