Make wonderful YouTube video with pictures and music in 3 steps

How to make a video with pictures and music? What do YouTubers use to make their music videos or slideshow videos? Sure, use YouTube Movie Maker, it's easy to make wonderful Music videos with pictures, or make wonderful Slideshow video with music. YouTube Movie Maker is the best choice for making wonderful videos for YouTube.

Below we provided a step by step guide about how to make a video with pictures and music in 3 steps.

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How to make a video with pictures and music? The best way, use YouTube Movie Maker

For example: we will make a video with some pictures and a music.

Step 1: Add photos and music in the software

Run YouTube Movie Maker (If you haven’t installed it yet, you can download it here), select "Make Videos", Then simply press upper left "Red Plus Button" to add all source pictures and music into the program(or directly drag and drop all pictures and music into the program), like below pics.

Step 2: Add pictures and music into timeline

Add all pictures into Video Line, add music into an Audio Line(or directly drag all pictures down into the Video Line, drag music down into an Audio Line), like below pics.

Step 3: Set transition effects

After adding pictures and music, we need to add transitions to make our videos better.Right click the blank area of Video Line, then click "Video/Image Fill Mode -> Stretch" to make all pictures to be full screen, and click "Auto adjust images to fill line" to make the total duration time of all pictures to be same with music, and click "Transition Effect -> Random set Transtion Effect" to add cool transition effects between pictures, at last press "RENDER" button to output this music video/slideshow video, like below pics.

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Pro tips for making a slideshow video with music and pictures:

YouTube Movie Maker is also a free slideshow software. We provide a lot of advanced effects and features that make videos look better.Below is a video tutorial of some special effects. You can easily make cool videos with the tutorial.

1. Audio Shake Effect

We can add Audio Shake Effect into video, that will help us to create wonderful music video with Rhythmic 'Beat-shake' Effect, put popping text and screen shake/zoom effect on the video, video to bounce to the bass in the beat like the audio waves do.

2. Add text with wonderful Text effect

We can double click on a Text line to input any text, and we can add the Text effect to make the Text in the video look more special and cool.

3. Particle Effect

YouTube Movie Maker provides hundreds of Particle effects, we can easily add Particle effects into video, that will make our video look more special and cool.

4. Mask Effect

We can easily add cool Mask effects(light and shadow effects) into video clips, pictures, Text, etc., that will make them look more wonderful.

5. 3D Group Effect

When making Slideshow Video, we can simply use "3D Group Effect" to make wonderful 3D Slideshow Video from pictures and video clips.

6. Customize the shape of video/picture

We can easily customize a special shape for video clips or pictures, that will help us to make our video more special.

7. Add "Audio Spectrum"

When making music video, we can double click on an Overlay Line to add "Audio Spectrum" into the music video.