Creating a Video for Prezi
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This document provides instructions for creating a simple video with images and sound using Photo Story 3. The steps include finding an image and sound file, importing them into Photo Story 3, editing the image transitions to be stationary, adding the sound file to each slide, exporting the finished video, and converting it to an FLV file for uploading to Prezi.
Creating a Video for Prezi
- 1. Creating a Video for Prezi A How-To Guide
- 2. Log into DE Streaming and search for an image of your subject. (Any available search will work, but DE works at school)
- 3. Once you find the image you want, download the MEDIUM version to your hard drive.
- 4. Go to www.findsounds.com to search for a sound effect.
- 5. Deselect the sound file types except for MP3. Search for your subject.
- 6. Right click on the file you want and save the file to your hard drive.
- 7. Open Photo Story 3
- 8. Click to import pictures and find the image you downloaded earlier.
- 9. Because the sound file is only 7 seconds long, you will want to repeat the sound. To do that you need several copies of your image. Insert the same image several times. Notice that this image has a black border at the top. To get tid of that click Remove Black Borders.
- 10. This page will show you what the program recommends. Choose Yes to All and save all the images
- 11. There is one more thing you have to do to these pictures. They are set to pan across the screen, but we want them to be stationary.
- 12. Click Next in Photo Story until you come to this screen. Click Customize Motion.
- 13. On the first picture Click the two boxes marked. Then Save. Then click the forward arrow to go to the second slide.
- 14. On the second slide (and all the remaining ones) click the three boxes shown. Save. Repeat for all the remaining slides. Then click Close.
- 15. The next thing is to add your audio file. Click the first slide and then Select Music.
- 16. Find your file and click Open.
- 17. Notice that the audio file is only over the first slide.
- 18. Select the second slide and repeat the steps to insert the audio file.
- 19. Repeat until all the slides have an audio file attached.
- 20. In the next screen click Browse. Choose a place to export your file. Rename it to whatever you want.
- 21. The default location is My Videos in the My Documents folder on a PC.
- 22. Also click Save Project and name it the same as your video file. This allows you to go back and edit without having to start over.
- 23. Click next and your video should start to "build".
- 24. At this screen you can either preview your video or exit the program.
- 25. To upload to Prezi it is best if the file is an FLV flash file. Convert this video at Zamzar.