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Relive Your Christmas story

Christmas is coming, everyone enjoys this special festival with family and friends. To preserve the Xmas memory, you can capture the happy moment by digital camera. Don’t miss the expression of kids when they find the mysterious gifts or excited emotion in the carnival party.

When hold these wonderful Xmas pictures, what can you do with them? Making a Xmas Photo movie with them should be a good idea. With the explosion of people’s digital life, many companies have developed variety of multiple media software to help people realize it easy. I have looked for some tools on internet and tried a few kinds of photo movie maker software such as Photo Talk, Rea Gallery and Photo Story Platinum. All of them can create flash photo album, but to a fresh hand to making photo album, I feel Photo Story Platinum is much easier to use. Clear work flow and built-in dazzling templates let you own a stunning movie in minutes. When you watch its cool samples created with this software, you can't help creating one for your own. I have created one, as it showed for my family on TV, everyone opens his mouth with surprise.

Here I want to share my making process with you together. Hope it is helpful for you to create your own Xmas photo movie.

Step1 Start the program to add your Xmas photos and music

Run Photo Story Platinum, you will see the interface as below. Create your own album, and then import your digital photos and background music. Besides drag and drop to add photos to story board, you can also realize it by double click.
Tip: For changing the photos position on the story board, you can directly drag it to where you wish.

Step2  Apply the animated templates

After checking out built-in templates of these three software, I realize what is the big deal of Photo Story Platinum, it offers 100+ animated effects templates to satisfy all your demands for any special occasion. In order to create a stunning photo movie, you can choose the dazzling templates to apply flash effects.  When you select one template, drag it to the timeline, then double click it to preview the real-time effect in yellow region below.
Tips: You can select the basic template to single photo, or apply the advanced and themed template to group relative photos. The special group effect templates can make your Xmas story more funny.

Step3  Set Intro/ End animation

Gorgeous Intro/End animation effects can give people profound first impression. This software offers different excellent Intro/End effects to choose from, just preview and pick your favorite. You can also add your album information, such as title, director, cast, etc, and set the text effects like movie style.
 

Step4  Select the decorative elements

To make your flash photo album more funny and lively, adding some adorable elements is absolutely necessary. Here you can add your customized text caption with different text effects, stunning scene effect, animated clipart and sound in flexible timeline.

Step5  Publish DVD photo movie and share it on TV

After you preview the whole photo movie and feel satisfied with the effect, select "Publish" tab and click "Author/Burn DVD". Make sure your parameter setting and then hit the "next" button, Photo Story Platinum will do the rest.
When finished burning, you can play it on TV using a home DVD player and show your creativity. Enjoy your Xmas highlights with your family and friends!

If you want to experience it yourself, click the link below to get the free trial :
http://download.photo2vcd.com/psp_trial.exe

During your experience, you may find Photo Story Platinum  can create more interesting things like EXE file and screensaver. Especially of all, it can also create SWF movie and share photo movie on website.

During this special Xmas season, many company provide the special offer like Photo Talk, Rea Gallery, and Photo Story Platinum, don’t miss it.

 

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Christmas Day is around the corner. On such a special and festival day, we are always perplexed as to what we should send to our friends and relatives. Things bought from stores are good of course, but they may seem a little bit common, sometimes failing to extend our most sincere wishes. How about something DIY? How about making an electronic card with your own style? The idea sounds great! And the meaning of it cannot be underestimated. Since the electronic card you are going to send to them is made by yourself and costs you time, effort and energy, your friends and relatives will feel immensely joyful to find it and enjoy the particular present and appreciate your work very much.

The process of making an electronic card is not as difficult as many of us might think. So let's get started together!

First and foremost, collect video materials. As a saying goes, well begun is half done. Here, I personally believe, it covers more than half of the whole work to collect and prepare video materials. However, if you have already downloaded or collected lots of videos to your PC, then you are going to save much time. If you don't have any video at disposal, don't worry! There are lots of video clips available on the web. However, it is required that you invest a lot more time and patience.

Take a look at this situation. Suppose you paid a visit to a scenic spot or a famous place with a group of your friends sometime in the past year. And, chances are that you recorded the whole tour with your camcorder. Now comes the golden opportunity to share the good old time with them! These video clips taken by you are definitely the best among all that you can choose. Made from these special videos, the electronic card not only memorizes the shared pleasant time with your friends but also expresses your warmest regards to them. It is not hard to imagine how excited and touched they are at the sight of your special Christmas gift.

Secondly, make some necessary decoration and beautification. The card without any decoration may seem rather plain. Even a little decoration to the card makes a world of difference. Beauty is the eternal pursuit of human beings. So decoration and beautification for the card cannot be overlooked. Many programs offer lots of templates for your reference. Since it is Christmas day, the template embodying Christmas aura and theme is of course preferable. If you are expert on Flash, why not make a Flash template by yourself if you are not content with all that the program offers? Also, if you are not content with the audio in the template, just disable it and replace it with your favorite music, the song representing Christmas theme or even your own voice. Of course, a great deal of other personalization work can be made as well. What you need is only imagination and inspiration. 

I once made a simple electronic card for my girlfriend. The program I used at that time is Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder. I am sure the process is still applicable here, so I’d like to share it with you. Generally speaking, this program offers the solution from popular video formats to SWF. First, I imported a prepared video clip from my local computer. This video was taken on Valentine’s Day of this year. I selected only a certain segment of it with the help of the trimming function of this program. And I chose a sweet template to decorate the video, added a song as the background music. Meanwhile, in the beginning movie, I added a short affectionate poem to it. At the end, I wrote several lines of words, expressing how much I loved her. I only made these decorations at that time. I believe you must have your own idea and are likely to do a better job than mine. Of course, this is not the only gift I sent to my girl on that Valentine’s Day. But it looks really special. Don’t you think so?

The process is really easy, right? But to make a satisfying electronic card is not that easy due that the majority of the operation is accomplished on your own (DIY). However, after you have tried it for several times, making an electronic card with this program is as easy as breeze.

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