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Video tutorial: "Make a slideshow step by step"
Imagine you're a student (for some of you it's what you are, lucky guy!) and you want to prepare a work about WWII history. Or a blog, whatever.
You will record an audio file with the presentation text, and then add some pictures to match your speech. As SimpleMovieX doesn't do recording yet, we will download the audio from the Internet to pursue our example.
Let's download this Winston Churchill famous speech:
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/usa/churchill-finest-hour.mp3
or if the link is dead, by searching Churchill finest hour in the Internet.
To download it, do File>Open URL... and drag the link to the link bar. See Download movies for more details.
Now let's search our pictures: We will just search them through the Internet with Google or Yahoo.
Pick 5 or 6 pictures and save them to your Desktop.
Putting the audio and the pictures together
The process is:
Open one of the images with Preview application, select the area you're interested in and copy it.
File>New from Pasteboard creates a 5 seconds movie with this image. We'll call it the base movie as it's where we will assemble all the elements.
Open the audio, Edit>Select All, and Edit>Copy.
Go to the base movie, place playhead at the end, do Edit>Add
Now you have 5 seconds with the cover picture and then the audio without picture.
We will now populate the audio with pictures:
Go through the base movie and select the audio sequence that you want to illustrate with the first picture.
Open the corresponding picture with Preview, select the area and copy.
Go back to the base movie. Do Edit>Add Scaled and the picture will be inserted in the selected range.
For the next picture, select the next range and follow the 3 steps. Note that it's easy to locate the beginning of the range with the left and right arrows.
You will populate the whole audio with pictures, then save it as QuickTime format.
Check the slideshow tutorial
See Advanced Editing for more information.