How to Make a Video Using Pictures & Music
- 1). Download your pictures and music to your computer.
- 2). Use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro to edit your pictures. If you don't have these programs, check to see if an advanced image editor came with your computer, scanner or digital camera. You can also use GIMP to edit your pictures. Crop and resize your pictures and adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, lightness and hue as necessary.
- 3). Edit your music files. If you're using a MIDI file, you'll have to convert it to a sound file before continuing. Open the MIDI file in another program, such as Windows Media Player. Click "Start > All Programs > Entertainment > Sound Recorder." Press the record button, but do not play your MIDI file yet. Keep pressing the record button until the sound file is the same length as your MIDI file. Save the sound file. Move the slider back to the beginning and press "Record" again. Press "Play" in the program you're using to listen to your MIDI file. Sound waves should appear on the green line in Sound Recorder.
- 4). Click "Start > All Programs > Video > Windows Movie Maker." Click "File > Import into Collections." Select all the picture and music files you'd like to use. If the image format is supported, the file will appear in the window.
- 5). Click "Show Storyboard." Drag your image files into the large slots provided in the program interface. Make sure the "Collections" button is depressed in the toolbar. In the left pane, click "Video Transitions." Drag the transitions into the smaller slots between the image boxes. Useful transitions are fade, dissolve and wipe.
- 6). Click "Video Effects" in the left pane. Drag any effects you would like to have in your video onto the image slots in the storyboard. Use the same effect for each segment. You can apply more than one effect to each segment. "Fade In from Black" and "Fade Out to Black" are good effects to use at the beginning and end of your video.
- 7). Click "Show Timeline." Click "Collections" in the left pane. Drag your music file into the track marked "Audio/Music." Right-click on the track and select "Volume." Turn up the volume until the blue line begins to show spikes. There should still be a bit of white space above and below the blue lines, and there should be no noise when you play the track. Click and drag the ends of the music track to remove any areas of silence.
- 8). Select the first video segment. Click and drag the end. Look for peaks in the audio track, and drag your video tracks to coincide with them. Make sure that your transitions are moving along with the ends of the video segments. Don't click and drag an unselected segment, as that will move the entire segment over. The middle of your video transitions should coincide in most cases with the first beat in a bar.
- 9). Click the "Play" button in the preview window to see how your video looks and sounds. See if you like the transitions where they are occurring or whether you'd like to move them. Press "Pause" when you see a good spot for a transition, and note the time at the top of the timeline. Carefully select the video segment and drag the end to that point.
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Save your project. Click "File > Save Movie File." Click "My Computer" and give your music video a name. Select the file size for your video. Click "Next" to save the music video to your hard drive.
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