The year 2008 have brought us much joy but also lots of obstacles. Never mind, a new Christmas and a new year is coming around the corner. All we need is to have a special Christmas for memory and a new beginning. During this Christmas, going out to take photos and making a Christmas photo slideshow may be a good idea.
With DVD Slideshow Builder, you could easily create a festive Christmas slideshow based on your Christmas photos/video and songs only. The program supplies all the other elements, including Christmas DVD menu templates to make DVD slideshow played on your big screen TV. Plus, like decorating Christmas tree, you could also use the created Christmas slideshow for Youtube, MySpace and Blog so as to spread your Christmas happiness and warmest wishes to everyone that visits. Act now!
Download Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder and install it. In the Slideshow tab, you can import your prepared photo and video into the program through the Add Photo/Video button. And if required, you can also edit the imported photo/video using the built-in tools issued by double-clicking photo/video thumbnails on Storyboard.
Creating a Christmas photo slideshow with music will captivate your audience more easily. You are recommended to make a Christmas photo slideshow by adding traditional Christmas songs. See below to learn how to add background music. If required, double-click the added music file in the music table to trim it so as to match your slideshow.
A description slide is generally needed to display your Christmas wishes. You can first add a color slide for this purpose. As illustrated below, click the first button in the Tool bar and select Add Blank Slide. And after a few clicks, you finally get a color slide appeared on Storyboard.
Next, you can double-click this color slide to open the Edit Photo window, where add desired text on color slide.
Only If you want to burn your Christmas slideshow onto DVD, SVCD, VCD Disc, it is necessary to configure a professional menu. After switching to Menu tab, simply double-click the Christmas DVD menu template on the left hand side to apply it to your Christmas slideshow.
It's time now to burn your Christmas slideshow onto disc or creat video for uploading to YouTube. See the screenshot below:
Note that you need to specify the save path if you select a video format. It will take some time for the program to generate the final Christmas slideshow, which depends on the video length. If you choose to create your Christmas slideshow into video formats, you can then upload it to YouTube and share with others by sending the URL. Prior to that, you may need to sign up in YouTube.
Now, all is done. Enjoy it!
Tips:
1. You can set desired photo thumbnail as the Christmas slideshow thumbnail on DVD menu by right-clicking a photo thumbnail on Storyboard and selecting "Set as Thumbnail" in the resulting right menu. Or the first photo thumbnail would be used.
2. If you choose to output your Christmas slideshow as video formats, the menu would not be generated even through you have applied a menu template. Likewise, you will not preview the menu once you have previously selected a video format in the output format drop-down list.
3. It's available to specify background music to your DVD menu. You can define it just under the work area in Menu tab.
4. You are also able to add a frame to a color slide in Edit Photo window, which can be brought up by double-clicking color slide on Storyboard.