Create Photo Slideshow Video on iPad and Burn to DVD

You have a great number of photos on your iPad and they have already occupied lots of your iPad capacity? You have lots of photos saved to your online photo albums like Facebook, Picasa and Flickr and want to bring these still photos to life? Normally, you simply need to transfer these photos to your computer and then use the slideshow programs such as Windows Movie Maker, Windows DVD Maker, iMovie and iDVD to easily make photo slideshows. Also, with a few settings, you can also watch photos on your iPad in a slideshow way.

However, to make things easier, I'd like to show how you can make slideshows of your iPad photos, Facebook photos, Picasa photos and Flickr photos directly on your iPad.

The only app you need is Photo Slideshow Director HD. It can help you turn your photos into dynamic slideshow, complete with background music, transitions, texts, themes, etc. If you are unhappy with the effect of a photo, you can make full use of the photo editor embedded in this app to crop, rotate and flip the photo, adjust the brightness, saturation and contrast, apply beautiful stylistic effects, remove red eyes, add text or drawing and more.

When the slideshow is ready for showing, you can choose to play it on your iPad or on a bigger screen of HDTV. If you want to export the slideshow as a video file, you just choose to share moives to your iPad Photo Library. Or if you want to share the slideshow on YouTube or Facebook, this app lets you do that directly.



So back to the topic of this article, it turns out so easy to create photo slideshow video on iPad and burn to DVD. The first part has been resolved already. And to burn the photo slideshow video to DVD, you just need to connect your iPad to a PC or Mac, copy the encoded video from your Photo Library to the PC or Mac, import the video into Windows DVD Maker (PC) or iDVD (Mac) and then burn the video to DVD within the program.

Now let me once again simplify the process of making photo slideshows on iPad and burning to DVD:

1. Download the iPad app Photo Slideshow Director HD from the iTunes app store
2. Create photo slideshows using Photo Slideshow Director and save it to your iPad photo library as a HD video
3. Connect your iPad to a PC or Mac
4. Copy the slideshow video from your iPac to the PC or Mac
5. Import the slideshow video into Windows DVD Maker (PC) or iDVD (Mac)
6. Burn the slideshow video to DVD in Windows DVD Maker or iDVD

Done.

DVD Photo Slideshow Professional - Create photo slideshows and export them in DVD formats and more

Someone said that no matter how poor is the information, presenting it in an interesting manner will still get you some points. If your friend has better vacation pictures to show, you can still capture the audience by showing them a neat presentation. That's where DVD Photo Slideshow Professional (that's a mouth full) comes in. The name should be self explaining, but if you're a bit slow, it lets you create neat slideshows with tons of transition effects, themes and menus.



If your Internet connection is sluggish, you should start downloading before going on vacation and by the time you get back, it should be done. The installation package is about 28 Mb large, but at least the installation itself goes without a hitch. You won't need to install anything else or restart your PC.

Although it looks complex, you don't need to be an advanced user in order to create a slideshow with this program. The interface works like a wizard with main buttons arranged in the order of the steps you need to take. First is the photo organizer where you browse through your folders and add images in the designated area. Here you can also choose transition effects and album themes. There's no advanced editing required here. Everything is neatly organized so that all you have to do is to select or click and drag. The second main button lets you choose menus for the slideshow. Again, it only implies selecting a menu and a few extra, but easy options. Finally you can burn your slideshow to a DVD. If DVD Photo Slideshow looks and feels too simple, the range of output formats helps you a lot in this regard. You can burn it as a DVD video disc, Blu-ray, MPEG-4, and many more. You can even export it in a format for your iPod or other iThings.

Pros:
The interface is organized very well so that you can create a more advanced slideshow in three short steps. You won't get lost in its options, but you will get lost in its wide range of stuff you can add to your presentation.

Cons:
The top menus are kind of useless. Basically, they do the same things you can do in the main interface. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. The less to click on, the better. Its simplicity could make it a bit restrictive, but this software is mainly designed to be family friendly. So why not let grandpa have a crack at it?

Memories are a great thing to keep. DVD Photo Slideshow Professional lets you store them away as a DVD video disc, Blu-ray and many other formats with easy to create menus and transitions.

Reviewed by Frederick Barton at findmysoft.com

How to Create Valentine Photo DVD Slideshow

Still have no idea what kind of gift to pick for your lover on Valentine's Day? Why not invest some time and effort in creating a photo DVD slideshow to give him/her a big surprise? At the same time, he/she will probably be moved by your creativity and efforts. Here you go! It is very easy and fast to create a valentine photo slideshow with Photo DVD Burner Professional.

1. Download and Install Photo DVD Burner

Here is the download link.



2. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in the interface of Photo DVD Burner to create one or more albums, select intimate photos of your valentine and you from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc.
Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.



Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music (your valentine's favorite songs), apply transition effect, specify transition duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate images to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

3. Choose Menus

Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Photo DVD Burner to choose a menu template for the valentine slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.



4. Burn Disc

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose the output format for the valentine slideshow. You can choose to burn valentine photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create Valentine's Day photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:



To create valentine slideshow on an iPhone, you can download Slideshow+: Photo to Movie with Music
To create valentine slideshow on an iPad, you can download Photo Slideshow Director HD