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Fitting Your Photos to Music

Posted March 30th, 2011 by Chris

We get asked this question frequently on our tech support email address, so we thought we’d give a quick tip on how to fit your photos to the duration of your music.

You can automatically stretch on shrink the duration of the photo portion of your movie to match the duration of the audio portion of your movie.

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Making Opening and Closing Credits

Posted November 19th, 2010 by Chris

Have you ever wanted to create a nice opening or closing credits screen for your slide show? Some recently introduced features in Photo to Movie give you a lot of flexibility to make a dynamic professional opening or closing credits screen.

We provide two short tutorials to show you how to use titles for opening and closing credits in your slide show.

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Graphic Objects in Photo to Movie 4.6

Posted July 14th, 2010 by Chris

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Photo to Movie 4.6 introduces graphic objects to the Photo to Movie timeline. A graphic can be used to add a logo to your slide show, add more complex text than what Photo to Movie’s built-in text system supports, or add other types of adornments to your slide show.

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Using Track Layout Options

Posted April 30th, 2010 by Chris

Photo to Movie 4.5 produces video sized according to the settings in Document Info. Most of the time the video is either 4:3 (standard) or 16:9 (wide screen).

Usually, your photos fill the entire area of the video — that is: the photos extend out to the edge of the video.

With Photo to Movie 4.5, you can control the portion of the output video that is used for the photos. This makes it easy to set the video back 5% or 10% for title safety. This was not possible in earlier versions of Photo to Movie.

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Titling Techniques in Photo to Movie

Posted April 11th, 2009 by Chris

Photo to Movie 4.2 (Mac OS) introduced title effects. In this section, we’ll take a look at title effects and other title basics. With the exception of the title effects, everything in this article applies to both Mac OS and Windows versions of Photo to Movie.
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Audio Editing in Photo to Movie

Posted March 15th, 2009 by Chris

Photo to Movie includes the ability to add music or narrative voice to your slide shows. It also includes the ability to do basic audio editing. In this tutorial, we’ll cover a few more complicated types of editing:

  • Cross fading from one song to the next in the middle of the song
  • Silencing part of a song during a voice over.

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