Make a Movie with Several Photos

You will need to have at least 15 photos and an MP3 music file.

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1. Create a new document by choosing File > New.
2. Drag all of your photos from the Finder to the new document. Photo to Movie will assign a random motion to each photo.
3. In the timeline, click on the first photo.
   
4. Choose Select All from the Edit menu to select all photos.
5. Using the inspector, enter a duration of 5 seconds for each photo. Uncheck the pause before and pause after checkboxes.
   
6. In the timeline, click on the first orange transition line to select the transition between the first and second photos.
7. Choose Select All to select all transitions.
8. Using the inspector, enter a transition duration of 1 second.
   
9. Choose random from the transition type to randomize the transitions.
10. Press play to preview your movie with randomized transitions.
11. Drag your MP3 music file from the Finder to the document.
    
12. In the timeline, drag the end time of the music track to coincide with the end time of the last photo. There should be two small purple controls at the end of the music track; drag the bottom one.
13. Now drag the top purple control back about 5 second to fade-out the music. You can also set the fade-out time in the inspector.
    
14. Move the scrubber back to before the fade out and press play to see the end of your movie.
15. Move the scrubber to the beginning of the movie and press the title button.
    
16. In the inspector, change the title text to "My Great Movie." Click on the text in the inspector and choose Select All.
    
17. Press the font button in the inspector and make the title larger (24pt).
    
18. Using the font panel, change the color to yellow.
19. Again using the font panel, add a shadow to the title.
    
20. In the timeline, click on the green title object.
    
21. In the photo view, drag the title to the top center of the photo.
22. Using the inspector, set the duration to 10 seconds, fade-in to 2 seconds, and fade-out to 2 seconds.
    
23. In the timeline, move the scrubber to the beginning and play the movie again.
24. Export the movie to the format of your choice. To burn to DVD, export to Full Quality DV. Then use iDVD to burn the exported movie to DVD.