adding a picture slide show to a movie

Toppler · Post by **Toppler** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:18 am

so i have made a home move. But i would also like to add a slide show with all the picture i took. How do i go about doing this. I swear i used to do it but i can not remember.

I have video studio 11

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:04 pm

You can either put the photos onto the timeline of your video, or you can have an entirely new project with just your photos, and add it to your video project in the burn stage. All depends what you want to achieve.

Toppler · Post by **Toppler** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:40 pm

so just create a new project like i was making a new movie? then how do i add it as part of my current movie?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:03 pm

You can do it in a couple of ways, depending precisely what you mean by including it in your movie.

You can either assemble your slideshow and Share > Create Video File > DVD, to make a separate DVD-compliant mpeg-2 of the slideshow. You do the same for the video part of your project. Then you simply open the burning module and insert both mpeg-2s into the burning module's timeline and burn them as two separate parts of the DVD, with their own menu.

Or you can simply drop the rendered mpeg-2 of the slideshow into the editing timeline of your video project, wherever you want it to fit into the timeline. Be warned, though, that this would entail a second rendering of the slideshow and consequent loss of quality.

Depending on the version of VS you are using, you could also simply drop the slideshow's project file (.vsp) into the timeline as I have just described for the the mpeg-2 of the slideshow. I think it has been since VS9 (but certainly since VS10) that you can use a .vsp the same as a proper video file (though not further edit it once it has been dropped into the timeline of a separate project).