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A long time in past years, people take photos and print out to add to their family photo album. Still many even today, of course. However, more and more people take digital photos using catch-and-shot camera. For a general family, they capture photos to remember happy events and precious moments, from special celebrations and holidays to everyday moments. And with time going on, they have got either multiple big family photo album or loads of digital photos in some corners of computer. This article will offer some ideas to relive your old family photos and preserve family memories by making digital family album DVD for TV and sharing with others.

 

Relive Old Family Photo Album

If you are a photography enthusiast since long time ago, you may have several family photo album regarding to summer vacation, family reunion, wedding, Christmas and general holidays. This is the good way to save family memories. To get more fun and showcase your creativity, I suggest you to digitize these photo, therefore, you can make wedding photo album,online family tree building,music picture slideshow and more.

 

 

Songs Suggestions for Family Photo Album DVD

You're in My Heart - Rod Stewart
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Walk Away Joe - Trisha Yearwood
Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
One Last Cry - Brian McKnight
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
Memory from The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
Lets Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Lets Call The Whole Thing Off - Fred Astaire
Leather and Lace - Stevie Nicks and Don Henley
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers
Lady in Red - Sting
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

 

Make New Family Photo Album DVD with Music

So, just imagine a beautiful DVD menu with multiple frames and a background photo of your family. Click each frame go to enjoy that photo album, say family reunion, and more for summer vacation, family picnic, family barbeque, etc. Hard to make. Not at all with DVD Slideshow Builder. It allows you make family photo album DVD with free background picures good-looking DVD menu in a snap! After importing family photos and music, authoring beautiful album DVD menu, you could then burn family photo album DVD with CD and DVD burner. If needed, you could also choose stunning 2D and 3D transition effects. Plus, sweet titles/credits are necessary for family photos. It's easy to add animated titles/credits with text effects. In a word, Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder is powerful but easy-to-use family photo album creator.

Create family reunion photo DVD slideshows gifts and personalized family reunion pictures albums with music are wonderful ways to add meaning to your family reunion. These gifts for families are as unique and memorable keepsake as the family itself.

Whenever we have a family reunion in our family the best way to celebrate is by sharing the love and concern among the family members and in that gifts play an important role in strengthen the family ties and bonds.
Collect all of those special pictures to give your family a beautiful DVD gift or show your slideshow at the family reunion party.

 

Make YouTube Slideshow with Stunning Movie Styles

Want to turn photos into video slideshow with background music and broadcast yourself on YouTube? And most important, catch eye-balls and let other admire your talent on Youtube slideshow movie making.

2010 may trigger mixed emotions: someone sentimental, someone excited, and others just happy. Anyway, a brand new day will start and we all will move on and hope for a better future. We just need to recall all the happy times of past year 2009 and know how they have enriched our lives.

 

New Year is the time for us to say goodbye to the ending year and welcome the brand new year. All the unhappiness will go away and everyone hopes for a good future. If you want to create a new year Christian slideshow to celebrate the coming new year, you are recommended to pick out a proper new year song from your song library.

 

This step by step tutorial will show you how to make youtube slideshow with professional movie styles and no complicated computer skills needed. What attract me is the amazing movie styles to bring your still photos to life, and share your photo story on stylish Youtube slideshow.

 

Here I share my Tibet travel photo slideshow on YouTube. Just follow my steps and create your own YouTube photo slideshow movie in minutes!

 

What you'll need to make Youtube slideshow:

 

1. Digital photos on local disk
2. Youtube video maker
3. YouTube Account (Free to register)
4. Favorite slideshow music (Optional, as background music)

Browse photos and simply drag & drop your favorites to the Story Board and Click “Add Audio” to add background music, also you can add sounds or your own record. It's crucial to select a good music for Youtube photo slideshow. You may refer to the new year christian slideshow song suggestions.

 

After you preview the whole photo slideshow and feel satisfied with the effect, select "Create" tab and click "Create MP4". Making Youtube video in format like "AVI”, “WMV" or "MPEG-2" are supported.

Tips: YouTube Upload Tips (Videos saved with the following settings convert the best):

Video Format: MPEG4-4 Movie
Resolution: 320x240
Video Frame Rate: 30fps
Sample Rate: 44100

 

Upload Youtube Slideshow Online

After you creating the MP4 file, login your YouTube ID, choose “Account" and click "Upload” button, and then select "Upload a video", write down your video title and description. It's better to enter tag for easily searched by others.

 

 

Ok, that's done! Making youtube slideshow is so easy and fun. Select your favorite movie style and action now to share your Christmas and new year photo on Youtube like a real movie.

 

Make Normal 16:9 Widescreen Video for Youtube

YouTube, after years of complaints over the size of its video player, has changed to wider size since Nov, 2008. And then did you find more complaints about the black bars around your video? Do you know the proper settings to get perfect 16:9 widescreen video for Youtube? Read on this article and you will get all answers to receive better video viewing experience on Youtube.

 

The Letterbox Bar and Pillarbox Bar

 

As you could see in the above figure, the black bars around the video (windowboxing) ruin the view experience completely. This is probably because letterboxing is added to create 4:3 video from 16:9, meanwhile, pillarboxing is also added by the widescreen player. So you are recommended to upload original 16:9 video to Youtube.

 

In DVD Slideshow Builder, you could easily get blackbar-free Youtube video by project settings (through Settings button on top) and settings in the Video Advanced Settings dialog, shown as below. Before saving video, make sure you have set the Resolution to 16:9 aspect ratio. Generally, 1280x720 is recommended. However, for a smaller size of video, you could use other resolutions. To decide the resolution, just divide width by the height, if the result equals to 1.777777, that is 16:9 widescreen video, which could be played perfectly on Youtube.

 

 

Note that if your media sources are in 16:9 aspect ratio, everything is perfect to make widescreen youtube video, but if mismatch ratio happens, adjustments are required. In such cases, either cut or stretch media to keep the specified aspect ratio. Otherwise, keep the mismatch aspect ratio and black bar is unavoidable.

 

 Here is the 16:9 widescreen video on Youtube (High Quality) created with Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder.

 

 

Youtube Video Tips: 1. Add &fmt=22 to youtube video URL for a larger player size. For example, to directly watch above 16:9 widescreen video in the wider youtube player, visit youtube video address like this: http://www.youtube.com/v/HD_PZjEh32Y&fmt=22.

Make HD 16:9 Widescreen Video for Youtube

The newly released DVD Slideshow Builder allows you to create high-definition video for Youtube in the following formats. All is supported by Youtube and you can also select desired resolution (1280x720 - 16:9 HD is recommended). To make proper settings for HD Youtube widescreen video, click Settings button after selecting output formats and specify right encorder, resolutions, frame rate and bit rate. After created, simply upload videos to Youtube, and they will fill the player entirely.

HD H.264 Video (*.mp4, *.mov)
HD MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)
HD MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg)
HD ASF Video (*.asf)
HD AVI Video (*.avi)
HD WMV Video (*.wmv)

Note: Due to the high quality, HD 16:9 widescreen Youtube videos require faster internet connection speed.

Change Pillarbox Youtube Video to 16:9

You may have shared many normal aspect ratio video before youtube changes it player to larger size. If so, you could edit video info and add yt:stretch=16:9 to the Tag textbox. Another useful youtube video tricks are yt:stretch=4:3, yt:crop=4:3, yt:crop=16:9. Use yt:crop=16:9 to crop out letterbox and pillarbox bars. Stretch youtube video to 16:9 widescreen video now to full fill youtube video player. But note that your video may be short, squat and a bit of chubby looking.

Conclusion

To best upload widescreen video to youtube, make sure you are using the original videos without re-sampling and directly create 16:9 video to upload onto Youtube. Download DVD Slideshow Builder Trial Version to make either normal 16:9 video or High Definition widescreen video perfectly compatible with Youtube widescreen player. You could also stretch existed 4:3 youtube video to fill player entirely. By the way, if you download youtube video not in widescreen, use DVD Slideshow Builder to convert to 16:9 and upload to youtube again.

 

Useful resources:

How to make motion DVD slideshow

How to Make FLV Slideshow

How to recorde YouTube TV Shows