In this blog, one of the articles that has given me the most satisfaction and that I still consider among the most useful, is the one that explains which free programs to use to create video presentations with photographs, which pass one after the other with transition effects various and accompanied by a music of your choice. The video can then be saved on a CD / DVD and can be viewed as if it were a holiday movie, on any television.
Since these software are widely used and since one way to share these movies is definitely the internet and the web, I think it is appropriate to see which web applications allow you to make a music video presentation with your own photographs, in order to have a nice way to share photos without having to install any software.
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The best and most famous site to create this type of presentation is without any doubt Animoto which allows you to make slideshows with special effects similar to those of professional television services. The problem is that it's not free but you pay for it; the only free possibility and the trial of the service and the possibility of making a video up to 30 seconds long. To be honest, I must say that Animoto remains recommended for those who love this kind of animated montage of photographs but the sites that we are going to present, some, do not have much less. The following sites, on the other hand, are free and some of them truly powerful and capable of creating high quality videos .
1) FlixClip, the best and free online recording studio to create professional level videos, without limitations, for any business project or even hobby, to make presentations, trailers, advertisements or videos of all kinds with photos, images and music.
2) Adobe Spark Video, web app to create video slideshows with music and voice
3) You can upload multiple photos as Youtube videos directly quickly and easily. Although the options are limited, Youtube is indeed the easiest site to use.
4) Photopeach allows you to create a slideshow with photos online, add music, add texts and cartoons or drawn elements (e.g. emoticons). Really impressive when setting video effects such as the progressive zoom that moves away an image and brings the next one closer, or to see the succession of photos with irregular times perhaps marked by the musical rhythm. The presentation of the photos on slides can be shared on the social network sites and on Facebook, also for each of them a direct link is created visible from everywhere. Registration is mandatory, but the rest is all free. An example that can be seen is the presentation of Windows 7 made with images and music.
5) Smilebox is another site power that transforms a series of images into a music video full of special effects and transitions that animate the photos . Unlike Animoto, of which it is very similar, this is free even if with mandatory registration via Email. The mix of the video in slideshow can be composed not only of various photographs and images but also of other videos to which personalized written texts can be added. The visual quality is excellent and is ensured by the JW Flash plugin used by various video sharing and online streaming sites. The graphic editor is used with discreet manual skill and simplicity, photos are added, music is edited and the graphic effects to be applied when changing from one image to another are decided. The video formats, once creation is complete, are iPhone Video, Quicktime and Flash Video; the only flaw is that the movie is prepared after some time so if you don't want to wait online you can choose to have the notification of completion sent by email. Again, each video has a unique URL to share on the internet or to download the film to your PC.
6) Roxio Photoshow is a tool similar to the previous ones but with something more, at least from the point of view of customizations. In addition to creating a video with photos and music, you can also add designed graphic elements and frames made available by the site and thus compose something similar to an animated postcard to be sent to make greetings. To the slideshow you can then add portions of text written in various nice characters, speech bubbles like comics, and different types of drawn elements, even animated and graphic borders. The only problem is that it is not entirely free, for those who do not pay, the videos are kept on the site for only 30 days, after which they disappear.
7) Masher is a website that allows you to use a web application capable of creating videos and movies with music, photographs, texts, special effects and other videos. I) multimedia files can be loaded from the computer, but those made available by the application can also be used. The interface and use is simple, similar to others with drag and drop & drop functionality and also useful for creating a video with Facebook photos, those uploaded to your account.
8) Picture Trail is a photo hosting site that offers two functions, one for creating a static photo album, the other for creating animated slideshows with special transition effects.
On another article the best sites to create photo albums and collages.
9) A much less powerful but free web application, capable of transforming images into a video is called ImageToVideo which, more than anything else, converts several images into one video. The images that can be uploaded are a maximum of 20, in JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP formats but an audio file can be added as a background music. The video can be downloaded on the computer in Mpeg format or it can be integrated into a web page through code.
10) In the online Suite offered by Creaza Movie Editor there is also an online application to create video presentations with photos, transition effects and background music. The quality of the editor and its flexibility is remarkable and allows not to have too many constraints in the photos to be uploaded and in the music to be chosen.
11) Slide.ly is a website with which you can create a video slideshow online and for free, using the photos saved in your Facebook profile or those on your computer. The web application is extremely simple to use thanks to a very intuitive wizard. Simply connect to your Facebook account and then select the photos to include in the video clip. Below you can choose a music by looking for it on Youtube and, finally, during the preview, add special effects among those proposed. at the end the video cannot be saved on the PC but can be shared online in Facebook, in social networks or in other websites via Embed code to copy and paste.
12) Kizoa allows you to create the video clip of a song or music, using your photos from your PC or from online services, mounted in a sequence of photos with animated transition effects. Eventually the video can be saved in AVi or MPEG. The web application is used online without downloading anything, it is easy and fast to use.
13) RealPlayer Realtimes is a special free web application to put photos and music together to create a video slideshow with effects. The free version allows you to create videos up to 30 seconds long and requires you to register for an account.
In the article on video editing then there are other websites and web applications to add effects not only to photos but also to videos and films in order to remix them together, edit and edit them and create new personalized videos.
