How to produce a HD slideshow for YouTube

May 10, 2013 thomas iPad Slideshow

What is a decent program which allows me to convert my digital images to a slideshow and post to YouTube directly from my iPad? The app should be easy-to-use and has necessary slideshow effects, such as transitions, pan / zoom effects. Also I want to add text on photos.

As one of the best video sharing sites, YouTube is a nice choice to publish our videos. No matter you want to share your pictures or promote your business, you can make a slideshow and post it to YouTube. Especially you have an iPad, it is more easier to make stunning YouTube videos with the popular iPad video slideshow maker - Photo Slideshow Director HD.

Photo Slideshow Director HD can do well in making eye-catching video slideshow. Its dynamic transitions and pan / zoom effects will make you get rid of cumbersome slideshows. You can add customized text or subtitles to describe your video. Finally, it allows you to upload a slideshow to YouTube directly by signing into your account.

Step1. Make a YouTube slideshow on iPad

1. Add pictures to the YouTube slideshow maker

Begin making a YouTube slideshow with adding photos. The app allows you to add photos from Photo Library and web albums. So you can both import photos from iPad and Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, SkyDrive , Instagram. To get photos from web albums, you just need to sign into your accounts in the app.

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2. Add music as YouTube video

Hit the music tab( ) to select songs from your iPad Music Library. To play, delete or arrange the songs, hit the “Background Music List” . This YouTube slideshow maker enables you to sync music to slideshow, so you can have the slideshow showing time match background music duration. Touch the clock tab() to bring up the slideshow and music synchronization feature.

3. Personalize a YouTube slideshow

You can customize the slideshow depending on your preferences:

change randomly applied transitions by hitting the dice icon() and selecting transition effects you like
select a theme for your video, add a background image
add text, subtitles, set pan / zoom
edit photos with its built-in photo editor
set time for slides and transitions

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Step2. Upload a video to YouTube from iPad

After personalizing the video, you can play it on your iPad by tapping the play icon(). If the video is not ok, go back to modify it. Otherwise, hit the export icon() to share the video slideshow.