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This is a streamlined, step-by-step process for you to create a video from your powerful post.
Here are the things you will need to get started: an essay / story / post, a computer, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Windows Live Movie Maker, and a YouTube account.
1. Create your essay / story / post – This is important. It is essential to write your post first or at least to preview the post.
2. The choice of music can be a bit more difficult. You don’t have to have music, but it makes the video a lot more powerful. The most important thing to remember; Music is generally copyrighted, and unless authorized, you may not use it for your video. It doesn’t matter that you don’t make any money from it. There are websites that sell copyright-free music, and a few websites that offer free, copyright-free music. When you have the music you want to use, download to your computer noting where it is saved
3. Open the PowerPoint presentation – You can be as creative as you want, but know that what you really want is to configure each slide to transfer to Windows Live Movie Maker. None of the animations or music can be transferred. You will add them later in Windows Live Movie Maker. On the other hand, in WLMM you will be working with images from the slides, you will not be able to adjust words, images or backgrounds.
To create more slides: Highlight a slide by selecting it, then press enter.
The important tabs you will be using: Home, Design, and Slideshow.
Choose the color, art, clip art, photographs, and word placement. Of course, don’t use any copyrighted material. Don’t worry about the timing at this point, but it’s wise not to put too many words per page. You can use the slideshow feature to get a feel for how things are going, but don’t really worry about the timing.
4. When you have finished creating all the slides you want: Go to Save As, click More Formats, click the Save as type arrow, select – PNG Portable Network Graphics Format, name it whatever you want and select Record. It will create a folder with each slide recorded separately. Pay attention to the location of this folder so that you can find it. There will also be a dialog asking if you want to save only the current slide or all slides. You want to save all the slides.
5. Now open Windows Live Movie Maker. On the Home tab, you will see “Add videos and photos”, select and navigate to the folder containing your slides. I suggest viewing them in medium size and controlling that by selecting the small icon above right. You will be able to see a page of slides in image format. Now select, starting with the first slide, to start inserting them. They should be in order. A little tedious but there is not much to do.
After you’ve added all the slides, click the first slide, click the Home tab, click Add Music. Then on the Home tab, click AutoMovie. It will install your movie to music, add animation, etc. You are not quite finished. Watch the movie with automatic timings and make sure you can read and see everything in comfort. If you can’t, individually click each slide you want to adjust. From the Animations tab, you can change the way the slide appears and moves while viewing. In the Edit tab, you can adjust the synchronization.
If you think your movie needs more time than your song is long (no more than 15 minutes for YouTube), after changing the timing on all the slides you want to edit:
Select the slide where you need the music to continue.
Add the song again by creating a loop, from the Home tab, selecting Add Music or adding a second song.
Listen as you watch a slide or two before the insertion point ‘.
If there is a long fade from the end, you can click and bring the second insertion closer together, crossing it to create a smoother transition.
When you have it exactly the way you want it, take the final step.
6. After you’ve already gone to YouTube and created an account, select the YouTube icon in the Home tab, sign in and upload your movie.
Have fun creating your videos.
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Source by Morgan Dragonwillow
