How to Make a Video With Pictures & Music on YouTube

Create a YouTube slideshow video.

Often when browsing the videos found on YouTube, you are going to see movies that are nothing more than slideshow pictures placed to music. In order to create such a video, you only need a standard presentation program, such as Windows PowerPoint, the images you want and the music track you want to set the movie to. Once you have all your files in order, it only takes a few minutes to put together your YouTube video.

Things You'll Need

• Presentation software

Instructions

1. Launch the slideshow presentation program on your computer.

2. Click the "Add Slide" tab at the top of the screen to add additional slides to your presentation. Each slide is going to have one picture on it. The slides are listed at the top of the page so you can simply click on a slide to bring it up to the main viewing area.

3. Click "File," "Import" and choose to import a picture from file. A browse window appears on the screen. Select the first image you want to import and click "OK."

4. Click the corner of the picture and drag it to increase the size. Do this until the entire background has been filled with the image.

5. Repeat the process with the other slides and the pictures you import.

6. Click back on the first slide and choose "File," "Import," and select to import an audio file. Choose the song you want to upload (this can be from iTunes, a CD or a song already on the computer). Click "OK" and the song is placed over your slideshow.

7. Choose "File," "Save as movie" and then title the video. Select a location to save the file to and click "OK." The slide show now extracts as a video file and is ready to be uploaded to YouTube.

Upload to YouTube

1. Open your web browser and navigate to YouTube.com. If you don't have a YouTube or Gmail account (you can use your Gmail email address to log in) you need to create a new, free account by clicking "Create Account," then follow the information prompts to complete the setup.

2. Click "Upload," then choose "Upload Video." A browser window appears on your browser screen.

3. Select the video you created and click "OK." Title the video, then select tags for the self-created video. A tag is a short two or three word phrase that helps individuals search for your video.

4. Select "Upload" and the video with pictures and music uploads to YouTube.

References

• Microsoft: PowerPoint Information