How to Create HD Slideshow on Mac for Playback on HDTV

It is a kind of great visual enjoyment to watch DVD movies on the big screen of HDTV. Have you ever thought of viewing photos on HDTV as well? It is very easy to transfer photos to HDTV for viewing at full screen, as there is a USB port in most HDTVs.

However, still photos look just as plain on HDTV as on a PC. How about decorating the photos with texts, effects and even background music to bring them to life again? I am sure it makes a world of different to watch the dynamic photo slideshows on the HDTV at 1920 x 1080.

Today, I'd like to introduce a Mac slideshow app named HD Slideshow Maker, which enables you to easily create fantastic photo slideshows with background music, transition effects, texts, Pan & Zoom, theme styles, etc. It lets you encode slideshows as full HD videos for playback on an even bigger screen of HDTV. You can also choose to upload slideshows to YouTube and Facebook directly.



Now, let me simplify the process of creating an HD slideshow video with HD Slideshow Maker for playback on HDTV:

1. Download HD Slideshow Maker to your Mac, install and run it.

2. Add photos from your Mac HDD.

3. Click the "Add Music" button to select songs from your Mac HDD as the background music.

4. Click the "Theme" button to choose a theme style for the slideshow.

5. Click the "Arrange" button to reorder the photos.

6. Click the dice icon to choose transition effects between photos. By default, transition effects will be randomly applied.

7. Click each photo in the timeline to add texts and set Pan & Zoom effects for it.

8. Click the "Play" button to preview the slideshow.

9. Click the "Export" button to choose to encode the slideshow as HDTV video.

10. When the encoding is complete, copy the output video to a USB drive. Then you can connect the drive with your HDTV via the USB port.

Now you can start sitting in front of your HDTV and enjoying the fantastic slideshow you just created.

Create HD Slideshow and Play on HDTV with HD Slideshow Maker for Mac

Have thousands of exciting photos from grand festival and daily life and wanna share them with your family or friends? HD Slideshow Maker for Mac helps you create fantastic photo slideshows with your favorite background music and stunning transition effects. It lets you encode slideshows as full HD videos for playback on an even bigger screen of HDTV or for directly uploading to YouTube and Facebook. HD Slideshow Maker for Mac helps you make a slideshow movie with high resolution of 1920 x 1080. It's really a good Mac app for you to share the perfect moments with your family and friends.



Features of HD Slideshow Maker for Mac

1. Make attractive dynamic slideshows in a snap.

Just add all of the photos you have collected and add your favorite songs as the background music, and you will get the slideshow ready for showing.

2. Export to full HD video with high speed

HD Slideshow Maker for Mac is designed to export slideshows in HDTV format. The resolution of the output video can be as high as 1920 x 1080. To play the slideshow on HDTV, you just copy the output video to a USB drive and then connect the drive with HDTV via the USB port. Then you can enjoy the slideshow via the remote control.

3. Various transition effects

There are a variety of transition effects to choose from. You can add cool effects and animations to your slides and create multi-photo montages. You can also set Ken Burns (pan/zoom) effect for each photo.

4. Lots of album theme styles

There are lots of album theme styles to choose from, which will help the slideshow look more attractive.

5. Directly upload slideshow to YouTube and Facebook

HD Slideshow Maker for Mac allows you to directly upload the slideshow to YouTube and Facebook.

System Requirements, Availability and Pricing

The current version of HD Slideshow Maker for Mac is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. You can download it for a try from http://www.hdslideshowmaker.com. The full version of HD Slideshow Maker for Mac costs $29.99.

How to Create Photo Slideshow DVD for Christmas 2011

The Christmas Day is just around the corner. Have you ever thought of making a slideshow of your special photos all over the year to celebrate the special festival?

Today, I'd like to show you how to create a photo slideshow DVD in celebration of Christmas 2011 using Photo DVD Burner Professional. The steps are as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select photos 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, 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.

Step 2. Choose Menus

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



Step 3. 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 Christmas slideshow. You can choose to burn Christmas photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create Christmas photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:

How to Create Thanksgiving Photo Slideshow

Thanksgiving Day is a time to give thanks, of family gatherings and holiday meals. A time of turkeys, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. A time for Indian corn, holiday parades and giant balloons... If you are going to host a Thanksgiving party, it is a great idea to create photo slideshows being played during the reception, showcasing the important moments of your family for the whole year. It is very easy and fast to create a Thanksgiving's Day photo slideshow with Photo DVD Burner Professional. Now let's take a look at how it performs:

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select your family's photos 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 favorite Thanksgiving 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 photos 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.

Step 2. Choose Menus

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



Step 3. 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 Thanksgiving slideshow. You can choose to burn Thanksgiving photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create Thanksgiving photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:

How to free create wedding photo slideshows on iPhone

There are numerous reasons to create a photo slideshow and wedding is on the top list. You may need to make photo slideshows for playing during the wedding receptions; you may have the idea of making a slideshow of your favorite wedding photos; or you'd like to create a photo DVD slideshow in celebration of your wedding anniversary...

Today, I'd like to introduce a fairly easy-to-use iPhone app named Slideshow+ Free, which can help you create a wedding slideshow on iPhone with ease and speed.



Now let's take a look at how it performs to make a slideshow of your favorite wedding photos using Slideshow+.

Step 1. Download Slideshow+ Free from iTunes app store

The iTunes link is http://itunes.apple.com/app/id462690585. Or you can search this app in the store by its name – Slideshow+.

Step 2. Launch the app, create a new project and add photos

Launch the app on your iPhone. Click the "New" button to create a new project. Then you can begin your slideshow. Click the "Photo" button on the lower left corner of the interface to go to "Albums", where you can choose to add photos from Facebook Album, Flick Album, Picasa Web Album, iPhone Camera Roll or photo folders in your iPhone.



Step 3. Choose theme and apply transitions

Go to the "Theme" tab to choose a theme for the slideshow. Click the dice icon in the timeline to apply transition effects to the slideshow. Click any of the photos to add text to it or add a blank image and text. Meanwhile you can click the "Settings" tab at the top right of the interface to adjust the photo duration and transition duration for slideshow presentations.



Step 4. Add background music and theme

Now you can add your favorite wedding songs to the slideshow as the background music. It's easy, just click the "Music" button at the bottom of the interface.

Step 5. Export the slideshow to HDTV

You can click the "Play" button at the bottom of the interface to preview the slideshow and play the slideshow on your iPhone or click the "Export" button to start streaming the slideshow to HDTV.

Free iPad Slideshow App - Photo Slideshow Director HD Free

Today, I'd like to share with you a free iPad slideshow application on the iTunes app store - Photo Slideshow Director HD Free. Most of the features in Photo Slideshow Director HD Free is the same as its paid version, except that the free version cannot export the slideshow to 540p or 720p HD video.  

The iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-slideshow-director-hd/id471560424?mt=8  

Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.1 or later.  

Price: Forever Free  

Size: 5.5MB  

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Here is the description from iTunes:

Photo Slideshow Director is a HD photo slideshow app that lets you use your iPad to organize your digital photos from camera roll, picasa web albums,Facebook photo albums, Flickr photo sets and create eye-catching slideshow in minutes. It's an idea tool for you to share your great shots with family and friends on big screen HDTV with iPad, it is also a great software for you to present your business photos quickly and easily.

Key features of Photo Slideshow Director HD Free include:
 
1. Make photo slideshow on iPad easily

With taps and drags on iPad, you can turn your photo collections and music into live and dynamic slideshow with ease. With slideshow themes, you just need to add photos and music then your slideshow is ready for showing. You can also add text narration, adjust transition effects to customize slideshow.  

2. Export slideshow to HD movie

With a simple click, you can encode the slideshow to HD video so you can transfer to PC, upload to YouTube and Facebook. The video encoding is very fast with almost 1x speed. You can watch the slideshow movie on TV via AppleTV AirPlay.
 
3. Support Picasa, Facebook and Flickr web album

You can import Picasa albums,Facebook Photos and Flickr albums to this app and play your Picasa,facebook and Flickr web album or transform them to slideshow movies as easy as 1,2,3.  

4. HD full screen slideshow presentation

Photo Slideshow Director is designed to show the best quality of your photos, all photos are processed with highest quality settings and played with best result.
 
5. Ready for TV output with Apple Digital AV Adaptor or Apple VGA Adaptor

Photo Slideshow Director is ready for showing on ever bigger HDTV screen. The output image resolution is 1920x1080. Your photos will looks great with highest quality on big TV screen when you connect your iPad with Apple Digital AV Adaptor and HDMI cable or with a Apple VGA Adaptor.

How to create mp4 photo slideshow

Want to create an mp4 photo slideshow movie, immediately bringing your still photos to life? Here comes the solution. Following this guide, you will be able to easily make slideshows of your favorite photos, decorated with stuning transitions, background music, album themes, cliparts and more, and output photo slideshows as MP4 movie files. Then you can easily transfer the .mp4 slideshow video to your mobile devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, BlackBerry, Zune, Creative Zen, etc and watch it on the go. No still photos or pictures, but dynamic HD slideshow!

The only software you need is MP4 Photo Slideshow Maker. It is very easy to create mp4 photo slideshow using it.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab to create one or more albums, select photos 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, specify transition effect/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 photos 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.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu of MP4 Photo Slideshow Maker to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose MPG Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (MPEG-4 Movie), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.



Step 3. Create MP4 Photo Slideshow

After you set the above parameters, click the Create Now button and start creating mp4 photo slideshow.

How to create picture album slide show and show on PowerPoint presentation

How to create image album slide shows easily and show on PowerPoint presentations? It is no doubt that a picture album video embedding photo slideshows and music is the best way to show your photos on PowerPoint presentations. The PPT image album slide show in dynamic MPEG music video format can help you attract more people's eyes. The dynamic MPEG PPT picture video slide shows with songs are more wonderful than the still photos to show your memory on PowerPoint presentations.

How to show picture album slideshows on PowerPoint presentations? The PPT can support the videos in asf format, avi format, mpeg format and wmv format. Photo DVD Burner Professional is a PowerPoint image video slide show maker software that can help you convert still picture to dynamic MPEG or AVI video for PowerPoint presentation.

You need to Free download Photo DVD Burner Professional and install it at first. After launching the program, you can start to create your picture album, set picture album theme, convert photograph slide shows to the dynamic mpeg video slideshows. Now, As an easy-to-use PowerPoint image video slide show maker, Photo DVD Burner Professional guides you how to make or create Photo MPEG video slideshows and add to PPT presentations. There are just 3 simple steps to guide you to create or make dynamic PowerPoint MPEG picture album slideshows and add to PPT presentation.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the "Organize Photos" button to create or make image slide show album (now I just create one picture album) and select photos from your computer to add to the particular image slideshow album. After creating an album, you can customize the slide show album by adding pictures, deleting pictures, arranging the order of pictures, etc.



Go to the "Transition & Music" tab, where you can add the background music or song to the image slide show and select your desired photograph slideshow transition effects from up to 260 amazing special transition effects.

When click the "Album Theme" tab, you can select a theme from themes warehouse and add to the ppt photo slide shows. You can also design the slideshow theme by setting all kinds of parameters. Then click the "Album Preview" tab, where you can preview the picture slide show effect.



Step 2. Convert picture album slideshows to PowerPoint MPEG video

Click the "Burn Disc" button to the converting window of the make software and click the pull-down menu to choose the Output Format "MPEG Movie". And in the video Parameters Setting area, you can set all kinds of parameters and choose the Profile as MPEG-1 Movie(*.mpg) as the album slideshows output file. If all is OK, you click " Create Now!" button and your PowerPoint album slide shows of MPEG-1 Format will be created in a short time.

Step 3. Add the MPEG-1 video slideshows to PowerPoint and show on PPT presentation

Once your PowerPoint MPEG-1 album slideshows are created completely, you can play it on your computer firstly. If you think the MPEG picture video is OK, you will open PowerPoint and choose these creative PPT video slide shows to insert.

While inserting, you can select the video slide show playing way. After adding, you can preview the PPT presentation with the MPEG slide show video. If the slide show video can be played on the PPT presentation, it means that you have successfully added the dynamic picture album video to PowerPoint. Now, you can show your dynamic MPEG album slide shows on PowerPoint presentation with animating transition effects and background music or song.

How to create photo slideshow for Facebook

Facebook is the most popular social networking website and allows you to easily share photos and pictures with your friends. However, have you ever thought of turning these photos and pictures into a slideshow and upload the video to Facebook? Simply get Photo DVD Burner Professional to help you! It can help you easily make a photo video slideshow for uploading to Facebook.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select photos 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, specify transition effect/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 photos 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.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

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 Facebook Uploadable Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (MP4 or FLV), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.



Step 3. Create Facebook Uploadable Movie

After you set the above parameters, you click the Create Now button and start creating photo slideshow for Facebook.

Source from http://www.photodvdburner.com/support/make-photo-slideshow-for-facebook.php

Birthday Slideshows Songs Suggestions

If you are creating a birthday slideshow, you may want to add one or several songs to the project as the background music. The song Happy Birthday to You would be the one that best fits the birthday slideshow, but you still have other choices. Below are 31 songs that are very suitable for a birthday photo slideshow. You may choose your favorite ones to make birthday slideshows with birthday songs. Or if you are asked to suggest some birthday songs, you can simply share this list.

Happy Birthday to You – Victor Silvester
Birthday – The Beatles
When I Grow up to Be A Man — The Beach Boys
Wild One – Faith Hill
Happy Birthday — Chorus
Because you love me - Celine Dion
Happy Girl - Martina McBride
If I Could - Celine Dion
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
Keeper of the Start - Tracy Byrd
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap
What a Beautiful Day - Chris Cagle
Forever Young - Rod Stewart
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
My Guy - Mary Wells
Young - Kenny Chesney
Thank You — Dido
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Let Them Be Little — Billy Dean
Baby of Mine — Tanya Goodman Sykes
My Wish — Rascal Flatts
Find Your Wings - Mark Harris
Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlisle
Come to Me - Celine Dion
It Was A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys
Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
A Day In The Life - Beatles

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