 Hello, okay today. We are going to create a very simple photo slideshow video We're going to be using a program called photo film strip You can get this by going to photo film strip org or if you're on Linux just use a package manager It should be in there once you install it and load it up You sure you should be greeted with this welcome screen where you can open existing projects or create a new one We're going to create a new one. We're going to give it a name I'll just call this tutorial and the directory you want to put it in if you get an error We're saying that it cannot create this it's because you already have a project in that folder with the same name So just make sure you give it a unique name Okay, and you can either now drag photos over or click here I'm just going to choose these photos that I already have set up for this and right now You could just render this out and have a video done in no time by clicking this render button but we're going to tweak it a little bit because Again, this is a very simple application There's one or two things I wish it had added to it one of which is like face recognition because right now It's creating these random panning effects as you can see this is where it starts in this photo and this word is where it ends And sometimes it's very awkward where it pans in zooms in on stuff So right now we're just going to quickly tweak these it just take you I mean It likes that you could render it how it is, but I like to tweak it So this is starting with my son as bike and then going down to his feet. That's kind of weird I think I'll start on his face and kind of go down a little bit to there Click on the next one. Okay. It's starting with a full picture of my kids zooming in that one's good This one's good. I'm going to move it up like that This one see now that it's it's starting here and kind of panning out and showing him. That's okay I kind of would want him in the shot the whole way. So I'm just move that up a little bit Here it's going to start with my daughter. It's going to show her pumpkin and then pan up to her face. That's okay This one's kind of the same thing, but I'm going to reverse it So it's not the same as last one's going to pan up and the other one's going to pan down And then here again, I'm going to center it on my daughter again. It's just what you like And again, we can just render it out now now You can look and you can see each one of these images is set to seven seconds. You can change that with a One-second transition, which is set to fade. You can do none or roll I'm not really what sure what roll is because I always just do fade And very simple. You can do no effect black and white or sepia tone I'm just going to say no and you can change that for each photo Um and again, I can just click on here and I can choose what format I want the resolution I want and I will click start and it will create a video file in the directory. We save this project to Um while that's rendering out and I'll play that at the end The the only other thing this program really does is music. It doesn't do it great It has some nice features. It's one of the things I wish I could do a little more Mainly I wish that it could trim the audio and fade it out. So here are your options I can come in here. I can choose a song or multiple songs. So I'm just going to choose this song here Again, you can add more to this now. You can select this set to duration of slideshow to fit audio files So if you put one or more songs in here and you check that It's going to stretch the slideshow out to fit those songs So if you have five photos and a five minute song, it's going to play one photo every minute So keep that in mind, but it will adjust as you add photos. It will fix it As you also mentioned, this program seems fairly stable except for When you're working with audio files again, its prime focus is the is the Slideshow the images and the audio is kind of just there as an extra feature and I have found Playing with this I used it a couple of years ago. No problem I don't remember having problems with it, but preparing for the tutorial I've had it crash on me about 50% of the time when adding music So save your project before you add the music not a big problem Also, usually I create a slideshow in this and then later on I'll bring it into a video editor and just put audio and fade it out when I want But I want to show you one more feature. So we added that song So I can come in here to this little clock music icon I can press play and you're not hearing it. It's coming through my headphones right now There's music and what I can do is you can see it's listing. I have seven photos. I can go hit Hit or whenever and I can go along with the music and it will add time stamps So it'll actually change to those photos at the time that I'm clicking So you can have the photos go with the music. That is a very useful feature If you want the slideshow to go to a beat I'm going to click Cancel and see if it crashes And it does So start it back up So for the most part, like I said, I would avoid I think this is a great program except for the audio features And I also wish that it had some sort of face detection for the panning Um, but real quick. I didn't save that project, but let me quickly come in here I'm going to go like this and again, it takes no time whatsoever I'm just going to do like this and you can resize these two So if I wanted to I can take this and go like that. So now it's going to kind of pan Down and out from my son's face. Sure, whatever just like that That one so I want it there this one. I want it here this one like that That's good. That's good And I'm going to go like that on that one And again, I just go click click start and it's going to render out and I'll play that for you So again, you can create very simple quick Um slide shows with this. It's just the audio part seems unstable And again for the most part I render out a video like this I bring into a video editor and I add the music in and I just fade it out because um Besides that that if you can get that that timing where you if you want changing uncertain beats and doing that manually That's that's pretty nice feature in here But for the most part I bring it into a video editor Slop down the video this generated add the music and cut and fade it out And I also like fading the black if you want I don't think there's any fade to black at the beginning or end of this in this program So if you want to do that, I guess you basically would add a black image and have it fade in and out So again, it's a very simple program But you can see how quickly you can generate a slideshow and I will now play the video that I'm generating Oh, and when it is done rendering There's going to be a play button right here where this x is if you want to play it directly from this program Or just go to the folder you saved it to That's it. So thanks for watching. I hope you have a great day and here's the video we just generated