# Suggest alternatives to Photostory for making cheesy youtube presentations.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-alternatives-to-photostory-for-making-cheesy-youtube-presentations/534679
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 2, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-alternatives-to-photostory-for-making-cheesy-youtube-presentations/534679 "2010-04-02T01:25:14Z")
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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: [April 2, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-alternatives-to-photostory-for-making-cheesy-youtube-presentations/534679/1 "2010-04-02T01:25:14Z")

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I have sets of photos I want to put to music on youtube, a la 99% of the rubbish on youtube. I’ve been using Photostory but I found the interface annoying and these arbitrary restrictions on what I can and can’t do. Can anyone suggest free alternatives to Photostory. I want to put a slideshow of still photos to music in a format I can then upload to youtube. Thanks in advance.

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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: [April 2, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-alternatives-to-photostory-for-making-cheesy-youtube-presentations/534679/2 "2010-04-02T11:31:40Z")

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I’m going to bump this for a waking North America. 🙂

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### Author: ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-alternatives-to-photostory-for-making-cheesy-youtube-presentations/534679/3 "2010-04-02T13:48:44Z")

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A lot of the time, the software that comes with your computer should be able to accomplish that goal. If you’re running Windows, you should have Windows Movie Maker. Macs should come with iMovie. Sorry if you’re a Linux person.

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### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-alternatives-to-photostory-for-making-cheesy-youtube-presentations/534679/4 "2010-04-03T22:00:25Z")

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> [@Electric\_Warrior](#):
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> A lot of the time, the software that comes with your computer should be able to accomplish that goal. If you’re running Windows, you should have Windows Movie Maker. Macs should come with iMovie. Sorry if you’re a Linux person.

On \*nux, just pull up your package manager and type video editor. That should be enough to find you something.