# Software for making youtube video.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-making-youtube-video/483615 "2009-01-29T21:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-making-youtube-video/483615/1 "2009-01-29T21:28:30Z")

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Those ubiquitous slideshows with music or narration in youtube, how are they made? Is there free software for making them? I’d like to give it a go. More to the point, people with experience of such matters, which software would you recommend?

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**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-making-youtube-video/483615/2 "2009-01-29T21:31:27Z")

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One program (that’s free) is [Microsoft Photo Story](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx).

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-making-youtube-video/483615/3 "2009-01-29T21:32:20Z")

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I don’t think it’s free, but [here’s a video](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1oe6xMZWQ) on how to use Quicktime Pro to start with.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-making-youtube-video/483615/4 "2009-01-29T21:33:52Z")

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Picasa does this (though it screwed my computer the last time I tried to use this) and saves as a WMV (surprisingly - I thought they’d use something more open source).

Also the free-with-XP MS Movie Maker does this too. [Here’s one I did using this](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Faldn5BWtF0).

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**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-making-youtube-video/483615/5 "2009-01-30T16:52:22Z")

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You might already have Windows Movie Maker on your computer; it’s part of a standard XP install … don’t know about Vista. Though not as sophisticated as some software it will actually do just fine for messing around.