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Make a YouTube Video with Pictures & Music in Simple Steps
How to convert digital photos to videos and upload them to YouTube for sharing with more people? Do you want to add background music or make an extraordinary photo slideshow for YouTube to broadcast yourself? This tutorial is mainly about how to make an extraordinary YouTube video slideshow in easy steps. You will make your own YouTube video in high-definition and high quality.
What you may need to make YouTube video slideshow:
- 1. Some digital photos and background music;
- 2. YouTube video maker software which can turn photos to video;
I have make YouTube video slideshow with Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder Deluxe, which is an easy to use YouTube video maker software. It includes hundreds of free YouTube movie styles which can instantly turn your photos to Hollywood-style video.
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How to Make a YouTube Video with Pictures & Music
Step 1: Install YouTube Video Software and Import Pictures and Music
Free download YouTube video maker here and install it. The program will let your browse your computer's digital photos and import for YouTube video. Select your favorite photos and then drag them to the storyboard (There is no quantity limitation of photos and music) and click the "Add Music" button to add background music to YouTube video.
Step 2: Select Movie Styles to Add Motions to Still Pictures
DVD Slideshow Builder Deluxe provides hundreds of free YouTube movie styles as well as three paid movie style packages for you to make gorgeous YouTube slideshow movie. Just drag your favorite movie style on the photos and it will apply to your photos. Here I choose the cartoon style.
Make a YouTube Video with Ready-to-use Styles
Back to "Storyboard", double click on the photos and it will turn out a pop up window. There, you can make basic photo editing and retouch photos with various effects. Likewise, double click on added music file to trim music and make music fade in/out.
Step 4: Preview and Save Slideshow for YouTube
Go to "Create" Tab to preview your slideshow before saving to video. Then publish it to the format you want. Following video formats are supported by YouTube, but you are recommended to save YouTube video to WMV or MP4 format.
- MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
- AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
- MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
- WMV (Windows Media Video)
- FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)
- Web files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
Step 5: Upload Slideshow to YouTube
After creating the video file, login your YouTube ID, click "Upload" button, and then select "Upload Video File", write down your video title and description. It's better to enter a tag for your YouTube video to be easily searched by others. Then wait for uploading complete.
You see, in minutes, an engaging YouTube video is created. Watch baby's birthday YouTube video sample below made with the new published Wondershare Movie Styles to get inspired. Think about that you are far away from home and is it a good idea to see your kid's birthday slideshow on YouTube? You never leave them alone, right? How about making a birthday slideshow and let your beloved ones watch it on YouTube? You will definitely surprise everyone of your family.
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Baby's Birthday Slideshow on YouTube
YouTube Video Making Tips:
- 1. You can burn your YouTube video to DVD with DVD menus for watching on TV on your living room big TV.
- 2. Photo video size less than 2GB (2,000MB).
- 3. Photo video length shorter than 10 minutes.
- 4. Preset profiles are included to help you output video for all popular mobile devices, like iPod, PSP, Zune, etc.