How to Make a Photo Slideshow With Music Using PowerPoint and Share

Want to create some video and share online with the whole world? There are many people who go out a lot or travel and they will share their digital videos on YouTube or Facebook to share. What if you don’t have though ready-made videos? Your family photos and home video can also be great resources. For the Easter 2012 just pasted, you should have taken lots of photos with your family and friends, recorded all those happy and fun moments. In this article we’ll tell you where and how to share as well as making your own amazing photo slideshow simply using PowerPoint. And with Moyea PPT to Video Converter, turn PowerPoint into video and upload to YouTube or Facebook.

How to make photo slideshow with music

To make a video with photos and music, you’ll need:

1. Digital photos and music
2. Microsoft PowerPoint
3. Video slideshow software (e.g. PowerPoint to Video Converter)
4. YouTube / Facebook account

Step 1: Add photos and music

Run PowerPoint program and click “Insert” → “Photo Album” → choose photos. This allows you to insert all the photos into PowerPoint at a time. Each PowerPoint slide will have one photo on it. Choose some picture styles, picture shape and picture effects to make the inserted photos lively. Click “Insert” →”Audio” → “Audio from File” to import music to PowerPoint. It will be better to set the song to play across entire PowerPoint slides as background music.

Step 2: Convert PowerPoint to video

PowerPoint is a document file with unique file formats and can be only uploaded to certain PPT sharing websites directly to be shown as pictures. Then what’s the purpose of adding music, animations and transitions? Moyea PPT to Video Converter helps converting PowerPoint to popular video formats like MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV, VOB, 3GP, etc. with all PowerPoint effects kept.

Step 3: Upload video to YouTube / Facebook

Now you can upload the PowerPoint slideshow to YouTube / Facebook freely as video. Sign in your account and click “Upload” to transfer your video to the web server. Depending on the video size and your Internet connection speed, it will take a few minutes to upload to YouTube / Facebook. While it is still uploading, take the time to fill some necessary information about your video for easily searched by others.

Things need to know about YouTube video

File size and duration for YouTube video need to be less than 2GB and 15 minutes. Before converting PowerPoint slideshow to video, you should know the recommended video parameters for YouTube.

• Video Format: MP4 AVC
• Resolution: 640 x 480 (1280 x 720 for High Definition)
• Video Frame Rate: 29.97fps
• Sample Rate: 44100

A wide range of formats are supported by YouTube, and you could also output video slideshow in these formats in the picture video software.

• Windows Media Video(WMV)
• 3GP (cell phones)
• AVI (windows)
• MOV (mac)
• MP4 (iPod/PSP)
• MPEG
• FLV (adobe flash)
• SWF (shockwave flash)
• MKV (H.264)

Things need to know about Facebook video

The following video formats are supported by Facebook, but not limited to. Among all the formats, MP4 is the best video format for Facebook.

• MPEG-4 Video (MP4, MPEG4)
• AVI Video (AVI)
• Windows Media Video (WMV)
• MPEG Video (MPG, MPEG)
• Windows Media Video (ASF)
• QuickTime Movie (MOV)
• Mobile Video (3GPP, 3GP, 3G2)
• Matroska Format (MKV)
• Flash Player Video (FLV)
• DVD Video (VOB)
• OGG Format (OGM)

That’s it. Have fun with creating your photo slideshow with music using PowerPoint and share on YouTube and Facebook.