Home video creation from photo images is one of my rewarding experiences. It takes some degree of computer creativity and combines photo, music, audio, and video editing skills. Video creation might sound a difficult task to do, but actually it’s fun. The only thing is it takes time to master the craft.

The process starts with creating a slide movie out of the photo images with software like Windows Movie Maker. In my experience using photos in their original form and size would be better as they preserve the quality of the images. After which music and voice could be added to the slide movie. A way of making your home video interesting is to add some video clips from DVD movies. One needs to convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV and use a video editor to crop the video clip.

It is advisable to store all media needed for the video like photo images, sound files, video clips in one working folder. This will facilitate easy access of the files from your disk drive when compiling the project. Making the video project DVD player ready is to store or burn them on a DVD disk with a DVD burning software like Nero Burning ROM software.

I have worked on home video projects using multiple software. One software for music and audio editing, another for photo editing, and another for video editing. Adobe Photoshop suits fine for all photo editing needs like cropping and rotating images. Editing audio, video and compiling the whole project could be done with an all-in-one multimedia application like Blaze Media Pro. The software have both audio and video converter, audio and video editor, audio recorder, video capture, plus DVD and CD burning software capability.

Creating DVD Player ready computer home video from photo images requires a bit of practice to master, but with the right kind of software it would be more easy.