# Recommend a video-from-photo software **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751 "2008-12-11T19:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751/1 "2008-12-11T19:43:54Z")
You’ve seen them, you love them: the youtube videos that aren’t actually videos, but just still photos set to music, with a few fades and wipes and some text on the screen. Some dork trying to make his lame vacation into some big dramatic quest-type thing by showing himself on top of Mt. Washington while something treacly – U2, for example – builds in the background. Yeah, so I wanna be that guy. And I have absolutely no experience whatsoever with this kind of software. I can barely do Powerpoint. Help a brother out, yo. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751/2 "2008-12-11T19:46:49Z")
If you have Vista, the included Windows Movie Maker can do this. Otherwise, try Google’s [Picasa](http://www.picasa.com), a great all-around photo organizing software that just happens to make slideshows too. It’s free to boot. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751/3 "2008-12-11T21:43:41Z")
> [@404 Clue Not Found](#): > > Otherwise, try Google’s [Picasa](http://www.picasa.com), a great all-around photo organizing software that just happens to make slideshows too. It’s free to boot. Thanks. Don’t have Vista, but I’m in the market for a new computer, so I might soon. And I should have specified, yeah, I’m looking for a free one. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751/4 "2008-12-11T22:00:57Z")
If you want to actually make a video file out of a series of photos (as opposed to just having some program run a slideshow of them on the fly), there’s a bit of freeware called SSMM (Slide Show Movie Maker) that will do it quite well. The interface is quirky and slightly buggy, but it works. > **[joern-thiemann.de - This website is for sale! - joern...](http://ww5.joern-thiemann.de)** > > This website is for sale! joern-thiemann.de is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, joern-thiemann.de has it all. We hope you find what you are... ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751/5 "2008-12-11T22:02:15Z")
there’s also [http://www.onetruemedia.com/](http://www.onetruemedia.com/) which I used to make a Father’s day “video” for my dad. There’s some way to put them on youtube from that site, too. I haven’t tried it so if it’s not obvious I don’t know how, but I know I’ve seen some slideshows with the logo in the corner on youtube. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-video-from-photo-software/476751/6 "2008-12-15T16:44:53Z")
Thanks for the input, all.