Many friends ask me to introduce a excellent software which can make photo and video slideshow on DVD, I choose six DVD slideshow softwares and try them, as a result, I pick Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder, this document will show you how to make your photos on DVD. Step 1: Import photos Free download Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder and run it, the pretty interface is as follows, click “New”, and then click “New photo slideshow”. On the “Select photo(s) to add to your slideshow” page, click the folder in which the photos are located. Select one or more pictures, and then click “Add” or “Add All”, then click “Close”. So the photos have been already imported. Step 2: Arrange and edit photos 1. Rearrange photos: click and drag photos to a different location. 2. View photos with big or small thumbnail: click the button “Change slideshow view style” at the right side of the tool bar. You can view photos in 150*112, 120*90, 80*60 and 40*30. 3. Rotate photos: Click “90 Rotate” to the selected photo, you can choose rotate 90 degrees clockwise or anticlockwise. 4. Edit Photos: Click “Edit” button or double click the selected photo, and then do one of the following in the Edit Pictures dialog box: 5. After editing your pictures, click “Save & Close” to save the changes made to your pictures. To continue, click “Previous” or “Next” buttons which are at the right side of the dialog box and edit other photo. Step 3: Add motion and transition effects On the “Effect” page, click the picture for which you want to customize the motion, and then click “Zoom & Pan”. In the “Zoom & Pan” select box, you can choose motion which you want, and the default selecting is “Random Selecting”. In the “Transitions Effects” box, these effects have been sorted by four kinds. Click a transition and you can get the preview on the right side. You can drag the selected effect to picture or click the three buttons on the storyboard. Tips: 1. After add effects to pictures, you can set the duration of the effect and transition effect. Change the number in the storyboard, the number below the picture is effect duration and the number between the pictures is transition effect duration. 2. To preview your story with the panning and zooming effects and transitions, click “Play”. Step 4: Add music or narration record to pictures You can add music or narration to your pictures, select a picture and click “Set” button in the Music box, edit music dialog box is as follows: 1. Click “Import Music” and choose one on your computer. 2. Click “Record Music” and save the .wav file on your computer. First, make sure a microphone is connected to your computer, and then click “Record” button and begin speaking into your mic. You can “Pause” anytime and “Stop” when you finish. 3. After you have finished with your music and narration, you can edit it. The music information is display in the edit box. You can make a clip of the music or narration through setting a “Begin Time” and “End Time”. You can also trim the volume and make a “Fade in” and “Fade our” effect to your music or narration. When you finish the editing, click “OK” to exit the editing box. Tip: Add the music or narration to other pictures repeat step 1 through 3 until you have selected all the music that you want to add to your pictures. Step 5: Add music to slideshow You can choose to add music you have stored on your computer as the slideshow’s background music. On the “Music” page, to “Add” music that is on your computer, locate and choose the music file, and then click “Open”. Click “Play” to preview your slideshow. Tip: If you need to get a .mpg file on your computer, click “Export Movie” and it will take your several minutes to create movie file. Step 6: Create menu template Click “Menu” button to enter menu design page, the interface is as follows: 1. You can select one from “Template List” section. There are many sorts can be chosen. If you don’t like the template it including, you can “download Template” in the website, more templates are offered to you. However, if you still don’t think they satisfy your require, it also allows you to make your own wonderful template. In the Background Area section, click Image to choose the beautiful picture from your local driver as your background area. Then, you can begin to edit your template. Frame, button, and background music, all of these can be added and edited. 2. You can also change the button and frame by clicking “Add Frame”. 3. Text can also be added on to the menu template to make your menu content more abundant. You can set the Font, Shadow and Halation. Static clips are also supported. Use the offered or custom yourself to make your wonderful DVD Menu. Step 7: Save slideshow to a DVD After above work is ok, click “Burn” button enter output page, the interface is as follows: 1. In “Output Options” section, you can choose “Burn to disc”, “Create MPEG file”, “Create disc image” and “Create DVD file”. 2. In “Disc Options” section, you can choose “CD Volume”. 3. In “Advanced Option” section, you can choose “Preferences”. 4. After you finish the setting, click the “Start Burn” button and the program will start converting files and then burning your slideshow project. In this period, it will display “Current process” and “Total process”. When these are over, you will get your wonderful slideshow on your DVD or VCD disk. Because of the limited space, I can’t introduce the process of creating video slideshow to everybody, it is also simple and wonderful. Learn more about Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder from here: http://www4.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow-builder.html Hope it is useful to you!
