Showing a slideshow to an audience on a projector can be a daunting task. We give you some tips to make things easier. Planning, composition, and equipment will make things go smoothly.

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You've just created your perfect slideshow.

You've gathered your photos, arranged them in the timeline, adjusted motion effects, backgrounds, and layouts, added titles, music, transition effects, and opening and closing credits. Perfect!

Now what? How will you share it with others?

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Here are some general tips that can help you build a better slideshow.

Download Photo to Movie and try out these techniques.

Read more to find out about narrative/plot, music and sound, effective effects, titles, and pacing.

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You already know that Photo to Movie can be used for slideshows. Did you also know you can use it to assemble your timelapse sequences into a video that you can put on DVD or upload to YouTube?

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We frequently get questions from Photo to Movie users asking how to better manage a slideshow with hundreds of photos and dozens of songs. So how long should your slideshow be?

Photo to Movie has the capability of making a slideshow that is very short or very long. Your specific use of your slideshow will be the ultimate determinant of your slideshow length — but we offer some simple rules for determine how long to make your slideshow:

• Make your slideshow the length of one song
• Remove low quality photos to shorten the slideshow
• Split longer slideshows into individual, shorter parts
• Guide the viewer to a new subject every 6-12 seconds
• Minimize opening/closing credit sequences

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Photo to Movie 5 gives you an easy way to make great looking slide shows. Within just a few minutes, you can add a color texture background for your slide show, a light frame, and a shadow behind your photos. Combined with a layout such as the Collage layout, you can have a great looking slide show.

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Taking photos of your children, your friend's and relative's children, or professionally can be a tricky business. They move at a fast pace and aren't always cooperative with your demands for the perfect shot. In this short list, we give you 10 ways to make your kid photography better. Practice will make you better, but you can improve even more by following some simple rules.

A good set of photos will make it easier to make a great looking slide show with Photo to Movie.

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Here are some tips and techniques for telling a good story with your slide show.

Narrative/Plot

Choose a narrative to build your show around. This can be, and often is, solely according to linear time, but there are other ways to do it. If you have multiple subjects, tell each persons story in order, or follow one person into a big event, and another person away from it. Remember, the story is what actually happened, the plot is the way in which you choose to tell that story.

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We still get a lot of questions and many users have confusion over what video formats to use when presenting an HD slide show — either on an HDTV or on the web. So we thought that this month we would summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the various formats, when to use them, and try to answer a few other questions along the way.

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You’ve got all these photos from the summer. Now take them and make them into a slide show that you can be proud of.

Grab your favorite photos and follow these easy steps to make a slide show that will preserve the memories of summer 2010 forever.

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Photo to Movie has always included a feature called adaptive blurring for reducing flickering/flashing in your movie due to aliasing effects.

Slow motion on photos with lots of detail such as a photo of a tree or water from a distance exhibit this problem most severely.

In the past, adaptive blur processing had to be enabled on a document-wide basis. Photo to Movie 4.5 will include the ability to control this processing on a photo by photo basis.

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Spring is a great time to get your camera outside for some outdoor photography. A hike is a relaxing way to try out your photography skills and when you return, you can use Photo to Movie to put together a slide show of your photos.

Here are some brief tips to remember when doing outdoor photography:

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Who hasn’t been touched by the outpouring of aid going to Haiti? We help because it’s the right thing to do–and because we hope that others would come to our help, if we ever needed it. And that’s a good thing, not just for those in need, but for us. Volunteer activity allows us to connect with where we live, to forge the bonds of friendship and mutual respect that transform a collection of houses into a neighborhood, and a collection of people into a community.

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Web publishing can be tricky business, requiring much trial and error to arrive at a perfect file. There are several things that make web publishing difficult, but the primary issues are the video file format, the bandwidth required to play the video, and the video size. All of these issues are related. For instance, larger video sizes require more bandwidth and take longer to download.

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Halloween is a classic American kid’s holiday, full of mischief, dress-up, and candy. In recent years, however, this night of fun has spread much more; both to adults, and to other countries. We love Halloween, and as such we’d like to offer suggestions on how to use Photo to Movie to spook up your Halloween, whether you’re a parent, a child, or a fun-loving adult.

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Here are some tips and techniques for telling a good story with your slide show.

Narrative/Plot

Choose a narrative to build your show around. This can be, and often is, solely according to linear time, but there are other ways to do it. If you have multiple subjects, tell each persons story in order, or follow one person into a big event, and another person away from it. Remember, the story is what actually happened, the plot is the way in which you choose to tell that story.

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For many of us–parents, students, teachers–September is back to school time. It’s exciting, but it can be a bit daunting, too. How to keep things exciting and fresh is a challenge for teachers–and how to keep up the GPA is a challenge for students. But Photo to Movie is a tool that can help with that. You’re only limited by your imagination–assemble visual essays, record interviews, create photo comic strips, or a simply make a slide show to supplement your lecture.

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Photo to Movie can easily produce HD quality videos. With HD quality video, you can:

• Burn it to a Blu-ray disk
• Upload it to video sites such as YouTube
• Play it directly in your media center computer
• Edit it further in applications such as Final Cut

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If you’re planning to attend or have already been two a summer wedding, here are some tips and techniques for planning that wedding slide show.

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A graduation is a time to celebrate the hard work of school and the completion of a goal. This article will help you think of ways to commemorate that event with a slide show using Photo to Movie.

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