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Slideshow maker ✨ (video from photos with music): top 5 for beginners

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I often get questions about creating small beautiful videos / slideshows (especially before some holidays). ✨

Many users roughly imagine that they need to pick up several beautiful photos, music, and then how to put it all together and put it together to make it look beautiful and tasteful ... (and not to waste hours of free time for this). Here, of course, the question is ...

In this post I will recommend several of the simplest and most affordable programs that will help even completely beginners in 15-20 minutes to create their first video (slideshow).

Of course, I understand that "the taste and color - there are no comrades" (and more experienced people will say that you need to take something else) , but still ... You need to start small, and then, "having filled" your hand - move on to more complex instruments. 👌

So...

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Create Side Shows: The Best Beginner Programs

👉 Option 1: Photo-SHOW PRO ✨

Official website: //fotoshow-pro.ru/

Instructions (my example of how to create a slideshow step by step)

Photo-SHOW - project creation

Nice solid program designed to create beautiful and high quality slideshows. Separately, I note that it is completely in Russian (all menus, names of effects, etc.).

It differs from most other software in that all actions in it will be performed step by step:

  • first, she invites you to add photos to the project;
  • then arrange them in the right order;
  • add beautiful effects and transitions, congratulations, inscriptions, etc. (there are dozens of templates in the Photo-SHOW ... There is plenty to choose from);
  • put your background music;
  • and save the finished slideshow. Conveniently?! ✨

For beginners, I definitely recommend it!

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👉 Option 2: VSDC Free Video Editor

Official website: //www.videosoftdev.com/ru

VSDC Free Video Editor - main window after launch

It is a complete video editor. The program is somewhat more complicated than the previous ones, but it has much more functions and capabilities in its arsenal (I would recommend it to those who have more or less got used to the previous ones, or have previously had some experience with video).

By the way, please note that VSDC Free Video Editor has a special. slideshow blank (☝). When activated, the program will "help" add all the necessary files to the project, effects, transitions (this somewhat simplifies the work with the editor).

I cannot but note that this program is "omnivorous" and allows you to work with almost any audio and video files: AVI, MP4, MKV, MPG, WMV, 3GP, FLV, MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, PCM, OGG, AAC, M4A, AMR.

VSDC Free Video Editor - working with slideshows

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👉 Option 3: Bolide Slideshow Creator

Official website: //rus.slideshow-creator.com/

Bolide Slideshow Creator - an example of working with the program

Another fairly simple program (similar to the first one). It differs from the Photo-SHOW by a smaller number of effects, transitions, 3D-inscriptions, tips, etc. "blanks". (by the way, it is also completely in Russian, and is free!)

Nevertheless, its capabilities are fully enough to create a full-fledged video with photos and music (this is a great additional gift and memory for a variety of events: wedding, birthday, anniversary, or any other holiday!).

By the way, Bolide Slideshow Creator allows you to save the resulting project in all the most popular video formats: MKV, AVI, FLV, MP4 or WMV.

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👉 Option 4: Wondershare DVD Slideshow

Official website: //www.wondershare.com/

Wondershare DVD Slideshow - an example of working with the program

Despite the fact that this program is in English - it deserves close attention!

Firstly, it has a simple and step-by-step interface that will quickly guide you through all the stages of creating a slideshow (and its "omnivorous" graphic formats will not force you to code something long and tedious).

Secondly, tens / hundreds of effects are built into it (some of them are unique!).How do you, for example, have a rabbit from a cartoon (☝) who will show your photos and tell you what is depicted on them? It can be done easily here!

Thirdly, the finished video can be easily optimized both for viewing on TV and for phones / tablets. The program allows you to prepare and save videos for almost any device.

Note: if you are not "friendly" with English at all, you can try to search for a crack (there are no official ones, but there were "amateur" ones on the network ...).

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👉 Option 5: Ashampoo Slideshow Studio

Official website: //www.ashampoo.com/

Ashampoo Slideshow Studio - the main program window, working with the project

A product from Ashampoo yavl. one of the most versatile programs (from its segment ...). It is well suited for preparing videos for PCs, as well as for consoles, iPads, smartphones, TVs and other devices.

In addition, in her arsenal there is just a huge number of templates, transitions, effects and other interesting "pieces" (there is a place for a rich imagination 👌).

Features:

  1. several built-in wizards for quickly creating slideshows;
  2. saving video in MKV, VP9 and MP4 formats (up to 4K resolution!);
  3. the ability to burn video to DVD or Blu-ray discs;
  4. a wide variety of templates and effects;
  5. support for all versions of OS Windows XP / 7/8/10 (32/64 bits).

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👉 Another alternative

The modern version of Windows 10 has a built-in video editor (at least in my version 1909 ... 👌).

👉 To help!

How to run Windows 10 update (to the latest up-to-date version)

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It differs in a very simple and concise interface (and capabilities). There are only a few buttons for adding photos and videos, music, adjusting the duration of certain frames, and several effects. See example below. 👇

Video editor built into Windows 10

However, if you need to do something very simple and unpretentious - this built-in editor can be a good solution!

By the way!

It is extremely easy to open it and find it: just click on the icon "Magnifiers" next to START, and enter "Video Editor ..." in the search box. 👇

How to find a video editor

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Additions and comments on the topic are welcome!

Good luck!

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