How to Create a Video Movie With Pictures & Music
Users can create movies with pictures and music by using Picasa, Google’s media management program. While the program specializes in photo organization and image enhancement, Picasa has modest video editing capabilities that can produce movies from picture files. Picasa is available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. The software can be installed for free, but users can purchase upgrades to premium accounts for increased storage space and additional features.
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Instructions
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Use Picasa to Create a Video Movie With Pictures & Music
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Organize your pictures. Create a unique folder on your computer and add all your movie images to that location.
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Set up a Google account. Users who do not already have a Google account can obtain one by visiting http://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount. Registration is free.
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Download and install Picasa. Go to http://www.picasa.google.com/ and click on the "Download Picasa" button. Store the setup file in your preferred location on your computer and click "Save." Run the setup file, accept the license agreement and start the program installation.
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Launch Picasa. Open the program and it will automatically load all of the image and video files on your hard drive. In the “Library” menu, open the “Folders” tab and identify the folder that contains all your movie images. Click on the movie images folder and all the pictures will appear in the program’s main window.
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Start creating your movie. Click the “Movie” icon located at the bottom of the program interface. A new “Movie Maker” tab will appear, displaying an editing timeline of all your movie images. You can re-order the images by dragging the thumbnails. You can also edit the text on main title card, re-order it or delete it all together.
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Add an audio track to your movie. Go to the “Movie” tab in the “Movie Maker” menu and click the “Load” button under “Audio Track.” In the “Open” window, access your audio file and double-click on the filename to add it to Picasa. Next, decide how to sync your audio and pictures by choosing one of the playback options in the “Options” drop-down menu.
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Program transitions. Select a “Transition Style” from the drop-down menu. Adjust the “Slide Duration” and picture “Overlap” to your liking.
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Edit viewing dimensions. Open the “Dimensions” drop-down menu and choose a the frame size of your movie. Indicate if you want to display captions or crop the images to the video viewing area.
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Create your movie. Once all your preferences have been set, click the “Create Movie” button. After your movie has been rendered, it will automatically play in Picasa.
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Export video of your movie. Click the “Export Clip” button in the movie viewing menu. Picasa will export your movie as a WMV video and save it to the program’s sub-folder under “My Documents.”
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Tips & Warnings
Since Picasa is a Google application, it has built-in support for publishing videos to YouTube. Users can do this by clicking the “YouTube” button in the movie viewing area.
While Picasa exports videos as WMV files, users are not limited to distributing their video in that format. Users can use file conversion programs to re-format their videos as MOV, MP4, FLV, AVI files and more.
Creating movies with protected music could amount to copyright infringement if you do not secure the necessary clearances to use the material, but people can avoid penalties by creating movies with free, unlicensed music.
